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Tribal

September 2014

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • TRB
  • Price:
  • 175.25p
The seasonally quieter H1 saw flattish sales (+2%) to £63.4m and adjusted operating profit (+4%) to £5.6m. The weak $ against the pound impacted translation and at constant currency profits would have been £0.7m or 18% better. Performance was driven by Systems where revenues grew by 16% to £35.6m and adjusted operating profit was 30% higher at £7.5m although this was boosted by a £1.9m contribution from Sky Software, a supplier of cloud-based student management systems in Australia/Asia Pacific, which was bought in March. Overall this together with  new customer wins and the continued delivery of large projects such as the SALM programme pushed international sales to 44% of the division. Quality of earnings is high with annuity ma ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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