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Begbies Traynor

February 2007

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Begbies Traynor has reported H1 results to 31 October. Turnover increased 58% to £21.9m with continuing pretax profit increasing 51% to £4.1m (16% organic), reflecting a slightly lower margin, primarily due to the extra costs involved in integrating the two acquisitions made in the summer and £0.5m of one-off costs relating to the prior year. This performance translated into adjusted eps of 3.6p, up from 2.6p in H1 05. The operating margin shaded slightly to 20.3%. In the year to 30 April 2006, Begbies had seen minimal organic growth (see our August update) and the sales growth in these latest results is reckoned to be 16%. But Begbies core business of general insolvency has been flat (though Begbies says there h ...

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