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Anite

August 2013

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • AIE
  • Price:
  • 130p
We said the shares were due a pause for breath in January (at 142p) when reviewing the interims. They have tracked generally sideways since but full year results show no real loss of momentum. Sales were up 8% at £132m but it was improved margins in all three sides that led to pretax profit growth of 23% to £34.3m (eps 8.3p).The majority of the growth was once again its handset testing business where sales including three months from the Propsim acquisition came in 14% higher at £87m (10% organic) and profit was up 22% at £26.3m. LTE 4G testing products saw strong growth whilst 2G/3G equipment flattened off with the split now 48:52 but the overall closing order book was up 8% to £26.8m. Anite i ...

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