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December 2018

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:
  • FUTR
  • Price:
  • 576p
The shares soared after an outstanding set of results with sales up 48% to £124.6m (11% organic), again well ahead of expectations. Pretax profit was £17.4m for eps up 32% at 24.3p.Media hit the ball out of the park with an 88% jump in sales to £64.2m (a very impressive +40% excluding acquisitions), accelerating on the 62% growth seen in H1. To recap, Media consists of several core website brands (eg. TechRadar). As I have said before, it’s all about building a community of users and then monetising them via ecommerce, events and digital advertising. Those three areas grew +104% to £18.2m, +148% to £12.9m and +63% to £31.8m, respectively. Online Revenue Per User increased in both the UK by ...

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