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Ahead of full year results due on 26 May, Kainos has said these will be reassuringly in line (Investec’s forecast is £25.5m pretax profit and eps of 17p). The company continued to generate cash from operations and has a robust balance sheet with cash balances of £40m. Over 1,700 staff have moved to home working in a seamle... ...
Once again, excellent interims from Kainos with sales up 29% to £86.9m, pretax profit up 27% to £12.8m and eps up 27% to 8.4p. Cash was £41.3m after spending £7.4m to purchase its new HQ in Belfast. Within the statement, Kainos said H1 sales orders totalled £99.5m, surpassing the prior year’s H1 of &poun... ...
Kainos is building a reputation for being consistently boring - the kind of boring I like, with all growth being organic. Latest full year results showed sales grew 56% to £151.3m, adjusted pretax profit by 52% to £23.3m and eps by 48% to 15.4p. And the profit is pouring out in cash with net cash up 47% to £42.5m.Headcoun... ...
The Panoply (TPX) - Greek for “collection” - is the vehicle for Neal Gandhi, a technology entrepreneur with a history of building and then selling technology companies. Although he has previously done this in the private sector, in December he floated The Panoply, which he describes as a “digitally native technology services co... ...
Once again, excellent interims from Kainos, in line with upgraded expectations (which rose 12% in September). Sales grew 62% to £67.2m, pretax profit by 42% to £10.1m and eps by 26% to 5.9p.Within the statement, Kainos said sales orders in H1 18 totalled £90.2m, surpassing last year’s £63.4m, which had itself... ...
Kainos shot ahead after saying strong H2 momentum means results for the current year to 31 March will be “ahead of market expectations.”The Digital Services division has performed “very strongly” (read: in excess of 40% organic growth, which is incredible), driven by both Digital Transformation work in the government and... ...
Ahead of full year results on 29 May, Kainos said all parts performed well. Kainos recruited another 150 IT specialists in H2 versus 44 in H1 to bring the total to 1,169. With staff a “proxy” for growth it demonstrates that the business was on fire during H2.Digital Services performance has been very strong driven by UK government di... ...
Lighting the blue touch paper under the shares was the interim statement, with a pretax profit of £7.1m, sales of £41.4m and eps of 4.9p, all broadly flat.With the statement, Irish eyes and SCSW readers too were smiling because Kainos achieved sales orders in H1 18 totalling £63.4m, which is an exceptional 94% increase. I... ...
The shares went to new highs shortly after a trading update, which said the Digital Services division has delivered a solid performance and has a very strong pipeline. On the Worksmart side, Kainos has seen an increasing pipeline of business in continental Europe for its implementation services whilst sales of Worksmart have been strong. T... ...
Kainos has reported its sixth year of sales growth with sales up 9% to £83.5m although adjusted pretax profit was up just 1% to £14.3m. That might have looked pedestrian but came after expensing £4.6m on software development - £2.3m more than the year before. Net cash has ballooned to £23.7m.Clearly, the big d... ...