Astral Foods Limited provided earnings guidance for the year ended September 30, 2017. For the year, the company provided further to the general trading update issued on 20 September 2017 which indicated a year-on-year improvement of at least 65% in both earnings per share and headline earnings per share, shareholders are now advised that a reasonable degree of certainty exists that Astral Foods' headline earnings per share for the year ended September 30, 2017 will reflect an increase of between 80% (772 cents per share) and 100% (965 cents per share) compared to the previous comparable period. This implies that headline earnings per share are expected to be between 1,737 and 1,930 cents per share. The headline earnings per share for the financial year ended September 30, 2016 was 965 cents per share. Earnings per share for the year ended September 30, 2017 will reflect an increase of between 85% (819 cents per share) and 105% (1,012 cents per share) compared to the previous comparable period. This implies that earnings per share are expected to be between 1,783 and 1,976 cents per share. The earnings per share for the year ended September 30, 2016 was 964 cents per share.