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Kainos - Shares break through £10

December 2025

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The shares have broken the £10 level. As expected in our recent full write up, Kainos’ H1 results indicate a clear acceleration in growth momentum ahead. Revenue increased 7% to £196.1m, and is expected to move into double-digit growth in H2 driven by a 27% rise in bookings to £228m and causing an order backlog of £397m. Pretax profit declined 16% to £32m (EPS 18.9p), though it remains 20% higher versus H2 25, which reflects already-flagged factors eg. phasing in of national insurance alongside increased contractor deployment to give it burst capacity whilst it recruits c150 employees. Overall, Digital Services sales grew 6% to £103.5m, with Healthcare standing out, +33% to £29.6m, driven by substantial new orders, which point to ...

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Kainos - Will be a beneficiary of the Digital ID Card (October 2025)

Kainos (October 2020)

Kainos -Huge beat on forecasts and special dividend (September 2020)

Kainos - Helping government deal with COVID-19 fallout (May 2020)

Kainos - Gain to date: 213% (December 2019)

Kainos - Headcount +26% to 1470 : best proxy for growth (June 2019)

Kainos - Employee number reaches 1,300 (January 2019)

Kainos (October 2018)

Kainos - All going well for government digitalisation (May 2018)

Kainos (January 2018)

Kainos (October 2017)

Kainos (July 2017)

Kainos (May 2017)

Kainos - Government digital side trading strongly (October 2016)

Kainos (July 2016)

Kainos - 88.7% of sales repeat in nature (May 2016)

Kainos - Evolve document management software going gangbusters (April 2016)

Kainos - Order backlog +54% to Â£56.7m (December 2015)

Kainos (September 2015)

Kainos - 88% sales repeat in nature (August 2015)

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