Upbeat Wesfarmers makes capital return DIVERSIFIED retail giant Wesfarmers will deliver investors a windfall capital return of 50c a share and is optimistic on earnings in the current year despite a domestic economic slowdown and a "difficult" short-term outlook for its industrial divisions. The group posted a 6.3 per cent rise in net profit to $2.26 billion for the year to June, from $2.12 billion in the prior year, on the back of strong earnings growth across its retail division, with the exception of its struggling Target chain.