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SDI Group

January 2022

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SDI reported a strong H1. Revenues were up 75% to £24.7m with the uplift split between organic (£5.9m) and acquisitions (£4.6m). Pretax profit rose 89% to £5.1m for eps up 59% to 3.9p. The swing factor was the higher margin Digital Imaging (DI) cluster and within it, Atik proved the star. Overall DI grew sales £4.4m to £11.4m and Atik doubled its sales to £7.9m, benefiting from peak shipments under a Covid-related contract with a Chinese OEM, whilst other businesses (Synoptics and Graticules) grew c.11% to £3.5m. With the incremental gross profit from Atik falling through to the bottom line, divisional profits doubled to £4.3m.The Sensors and Control cluster grew sales £6.1m to £13.3m with acquisitions contributing c.£4.6m. T ...

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