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Regenersis - Step up in cost base to accelerate growth

April 2014

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  • Epic Code:
  • RGS
  • Price:
  • 358p
Regenersis’ interims showed sales up 11% to £99.7m (+17% constant currency) but pretax profit was flat at £5.6m mainly due to a £1.2m step up in the cost base. Stripping that out, there was 22% underlying  growth in pretax profit. The core repair side generated a same-again £4.2m operating profit on sales up 10% to £83.9m with growth in the emerging market operations continuing.  The flat divisional profit belies the fact that Regenesis’ repair side is extremely busy. Last year it won 10 new contracts in H2 –with an annual value of £70m - but when it takes new work on it usually incurs a period of losses before the contracts turn profitable. Interestingly, chairman Matthew Peacock  points to a strong shift to working for the netwo ...

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