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Scott Wilson - Two thirds of business already booked

August 2006

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Scott Wilson's maiden finals came in ahead of expectation helped by faster than expected top line growth and improvements in previously underperforming parts of the UK business. Sales lifted 16% to £186m (against strategic objectives of 10% growth). The group had a pretty different capital structure pre-IPO and consequently, the pretax profits and eps were distorted by this and are a bit meaningless. That said, operating profit increased by 34% to £10.4m and operating margin increased from 4.2% to 5.6%, nicely ahead of expectations. Brokers have left forecasts unchanged and have a rather pedestrian expectation of margins hitting 6% by 2009, even though it is very likely to be achieved well before that date. Of the fiv ...

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