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Alliance Pharma

October 2013

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  • Epic Code:
  • APH
  • Price:
  • 35.75p
H1 results showed pretax profit ahead by 29% to £6.8m on sales up by 4% to £22.8m. Eps were up 23% to 2.2p. As well as seeing strong sales of Hydromol (£5m +18%) and a maiden contribution from the Opus acquisition (£2m), trading  was flattered by being “on-year†for the toxicology product (£3.2m). All three products are high margin and increased gross margins from 54% to 61.2%. But there were also lower sales from former stars on the wane; Deltacotril (£0.5m), Nu-Seals (£1.6m) and a temporary loss of  Immunocyst (which will be relaunched in FY14) hampered sales growth. The main swing factor is, of course, acquisitions and despite spending £8.2m on Syntometrine, an obstetric drug acquired in July, net debt ...

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