Primary Recommendation

Interactive Prospect Targeting - Doubles profit

April 2006

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Investors might imagine that a company that generates its revenue from building and renting email lists is a weak business, partly because of the grubby image associated with spam mail. But that image helps explain why an excellent business like Interactive Prospective Targeting (IPT) is so modestly rated given its growth rate. We met with chief executive Lionel Thain last month, shortly after the group issued its results for 2005. Those results exceeded brokers’ expectations despite four upgrades during the year. Revenues increased to £13.43m, a 60% increase over the year before. Pretax profit, stripping out an exceptional gain on the sale of an investment, more than doubled to £2.86m and earnings rose by a sim ...

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