The company posted A$25 million ($16.24 million) in normalised net profit after tax attributable for the six months ended Dec. 31, compared with A$43.6 million last year.

That beat a profit of A$15.3 million as per LSEG IBES data.

($1 = 1.5394 Australian dollars)

(Reporting by Poonam Behura and Megha Rani in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)