Group Five Limited provided group earnings guidance for the six months ending 31 December 2017. For the period, the group loss of approximately 409 cents per share and headline loss of approximately 415 cents per share, which represents a 35.5% increase in the loss per share (31 December 2016: 302 cents loss per share) and 33.8% increase in the headline loss per share (31 December 2016: 310 cents loss per share) over that of the prior period's comparative number. These numbers include the downward earnings pressure from the Construction cluster described earlier as well as the cost to complete the Kpone contract, but exclude any impact of the potential delay penalties and benefit of the group's assessed claims to which it deems itself to be entitled.