Primary Recommendation

Alterian - Explosive North American sales

April 2007

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Alterian, which provides software that helps the marketing departments of large companies deal with the problem of profiling their customer data, is in a red hot phase of growth, with results for the year to March 2007 expected to show a 132% growth in profit to £2.1m on sales up 32% to £14m. But even this looks like just the beginning and on forecasts made by broker Investec, sales are expected to grow to £18.9m this year and profit to more than double again to £5.5m. The reason that Alterian is able to achieve such strong growth is that it rents its software on a three year basis and a feature of the business is that once breakeven is passed, a large chunk of additional revenue falls straight through to p ...

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