Financial review

The group delivered strong results for the year ended 31 March 2021. Group revenue, measured on an economic-interest basis of US$29.6bn, was driven by Ecommerce revenues which grew 46% (55%) year on year, and Tencent which grew 32% (28%) year on year. Group trading profit grew 49% (45%) to US$5.6bn. Aggregated trading losses in our Ecommerce segments reduced by 47% (49%) or US$384m to US$439m. Trading profit of our profitable ecommerce businesses grew by 44% (49%) to US$450m. Tencent's contribution to the group's trading profit improved 33% (29%).

Core headline earnings were US$3.5bn - up 21% (15%), driven by improved profitability from our Ecommerce units and the growing contribution from Tencent.

On a consolidated basis, total revenue increased by US$1.9bn, or 48%, from US$4.0bn in the year ended 31 March 2020 to US$5.9bn in the year ended 31 March 2021, primarily due to Food Delivery and Etail. Operating loss increased from US$720m to US$1.2bn despite the significant, improved performance in revenue and profitability across most of our segments. This was primarily due to an increase in the cash-settled share-based payment expense as a result of marked improvement in ecommerce and tech valuations. The strong performance of our businesses over the past year drove an increase in valuations of these businesses and therefore an increase in the cash-settled payment liability.

Our equity-accounted results in equity-accounted companies increased by US$3.2bn, or 81%, from US$3.9bn in the year ended 31 March 2020 to US$7.1bn in the year ended 31 March 2021. The increase is driven primarily by Tencent and Swiggy, which reported improved profitability during the year. The equity-accounted results include investment disposal gains of US$1.1bn, impairment losses of US$968m and net fair value gains on financial instruments of US$2.5bn.

In August and December 2020, Prosus raised US$4.4bn in debt, comprising its longest-dated US dollar offering to date and its debut euro notes offering. Strong investor demand resulted in attractive pricing that reduced our average funding cost. The group has no debt maturities due until 2025.

We ended the period with a strong and liquid balance sheet. We had net debt of US$2.7bn, comprising US$5.2bn in cash and cash equivalents (including short-term cash investments), net of US$7.9bn in interest-bearing debt (excluding capitalised lease liabilities). In addition, in April 2021, we received US$14.6bn from the sale of a 2% interest in Tencent Holdings Limited. Proceeds from this further strengthened our financial flexibility for further investment. We also hold an undrawn US$2.5bn revolving credit facility. Overall, we recorded a net interest expense of US$167m for the period.

Consolidated free cash outflow was US$4m, an improvement on the prior year's free cash outflow of US$383m. This was driven by growth in our Ecommerce profitability, dividends received from Tencent of US$458m (2020: US$377m) and improved working capital management.

We continue to explore growth opportunities to expand our ecosystem and position the business for sustainable growth. Across the group, we invested US$3.6bn, notably:

In our Classifieds unit, we merged letgo and OfferUp into a business with national reach across the United States (US), well positioned in a highly competitive market. As part of the transaction, we contributed US$100m to support its continued growth and monetisation. We injected our Middle Eastern Classifieds assets into Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG) and contributed US$75m in a financing round that valued the business at over US$1bn. Our joint venture OLX Brazil completed the US$520m (BRL2.9bn) acquisition of leading real estate vertical Grupo ZAP, strengthening its positioning in the real estate market.

In Food Delivery, we acquired an additional 8% interest in Delivery Hero on 31 March 2021 for US$2.6bn to offset current and future dilution. We remain the largest shareholder.

In Payments and Fintech, we invested an additional US$67m in Remitly to expand its suite of products.

Finally, we focused on increasing our exposure to edtech by investing US$60m in Eruditus, a global professional higher-education online platform. In November, we announced a total investment commitment of US$500m in Skillsoft via Churchill Capital Corp II's special-purpose acquisition company, which closed in June 2021. The transaction creates a leading digital-learning company with a comprehensive suite of on-demand and live virtual content.

There were no new or amended accounting pronouncements effective 1 April 2020 with a significant impact on the group's consolidated financial statements.

Effective 1 April 2020, the group made a voluntary change to its accounting policy on the subsequent measurement of written put option arrangements with non-controlling shareholders. Subsequent changes in the carrying value of put option liabilities previously recognised in the summarised income statement in 'Other finance income/(costs) - net' are now recognised through equity. We adopted this change in accounting policy retrospectively, but the impact is insignificant to the consolidated statement of financial position as all previous remeasurements recognised through the income statement are already accumulated in equity as at the effective date of the change.

Dividend

A dividend will be paid in relation to the Naspers N ordinary shares and A ordinary shares of the amount that Naspers receives from Prosus as a dividend as referred to in the Prosus results announcement dated 21 June 2021, either (i) as a terminal economics distribution under the cross-holding agreement between Naspers and Prosus if the exchange offer transaction announced by Prosus on 12 May 2021 is implemented and settlement thereof occurs, or (ii) if this is not the case, as a dividend payment in the ordinary course. The board intends to declare the dividend as soon as practicable after the exchange offer transaction has been implemented, or when it is known that the exchange offer transaction will no longer proceed.

Preparation of the short-form results announcement

The preparation of the short-form results announcement was supervised by the group's financial director, Basil Sgourdos CA(SA). These results were made public on 21 June 2021.

ADR programme

Bank of New York Mellon maintains a GlobalBuyDIRECT^SM plan for Naspers Limited. For additional information, please visit Bank of New York Mellon's website at www.globalbuydirect.com or call shareholder relations at 1-888-BNY-ADRS or 1-800-345-1612 or write to: Bank of New York Mellon, Shareholder Relations Department - GlobalBuyDIRECT^SM, Church Street Station, PO Box 11258, New York, NY 10286-1258, USA.

Important information

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Further information

This short-form results announcement is the responsibility of the directors and is only a summary of the information in the summarised consolidated financial statements. This short-form results announcement was released on 21 June 2021 and the summarised consolidated financial statements can be found on the company's website, www.naspers.com and can be viewed on the JSE link, https://senspdf.jse.co.za/documents/2021/JSE/ISSE/NPN/YE21.pdf. Copies of the full summarised consolidated financial statements may also be requested from the company's registered office, at no charge, during office hours. The summarised consolidated financial statements for year ended 31 March 2021 have been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., our independent auditor. Their unqualified report is appended to these summarised consolidated financial statements available on www.naspers.com. Any investment decision should be based on the summarised consolidated financial statements published on SENS and the company's website. The information in this short-form results announcement has been extracted from the reviewed information published on SENS, but the short-form results announcement itself was not reviewed.

On behalf of the board

Koos Bekker                                        Bob van Dijk

Chair                                                       Chief executive

Cape Town

19 June 2021

Directors: JP Bekker (chair), B van Dijk (chief executive), EM Choi, HJ du Toit, CL Enenstein, M Girotra, RCC Jafta, AGZ Kemna, FLN Letele, D Meyer, R Oliveira de Lima, SJZ Pacak, V Sgourdos, MR Sorour, JDT Stofberg, BJ van der Ross, Y Xu

Company secretary: L Bagwandeen

Registered office: 40 Heerengracht, Cape Town 8001 (PO Box 2271, Cape Town 8000, South Africa)

Transfer secretaries: JSE Investor Services Proprietary Limited, 13th Floor Rennie House, 19 Ameshoff Street, Braamfontein 2001 (PO Box 4844, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa)

Sponsor: Investec Bank Limited, 100 Grayston Drive, Sandown, Sandton 2196, South Africa