Sea Harvest Group Limited provided earnings guidance for the six months ended June 30, 2018. The Group's headline earnings for the six months ended June 30, 2018 are expected to increase by between 0% and 3%, to between ZAR 110.7 million and ZAR 114.0 million, compared to the headline earnings of ZAR 110.7 million reported for the six months ended June 30, 2017, after absorbing transaction costs relating to the Viking acquisition. Shareholders are advised that the company expects to report basic earnings per share ("EPS") for the six months ended June 30, 2018 of between 46 and 50 cents per share, representing a decrease of between 31% and 25%, compared to the EPS of 67 cents per share reported for the six months ended June 30, 2017. Basic headline earnings per share ("HEPS") for the six months ended June 30, 2018 is expected to decrease by between 20% and 13%, to between 45 and 49 cents per share, compared to the HEPS of 56.6 cents per share reported for the six months ended June 30, 2017. The decrease in EPS and HEPS is mainly attributed to an increase in the weighted average number of shares in issue ("WANOS") due to the annualised effect of the shares issued at listing on 23 March 2017 being included in the WANOS calculation for only a portion of the period in 2017, compared to the full period in 2018, as well as the non-recurrence of several one-off non-cash benefits in 2017 and transaction costs relating to the Viking acquisition included in 2018. WANOS for the six months ended 30 June 2018 increased to 240,018,063, compared to a WANOS of 195,379,525 for the six months ended June 30, 2017.