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December 2012

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  • Epic Code:
  • CML
  • Price:
  • 380p
 CML’s results for the six months to end September showed sales up by only 3% to £12.7m but pretax profit was up 20% to £2.41m. Eps was up 14% to 11.2p. Net cash position improved to £6.5m from £4.4m. Gross margin remained stable at 69%The swing factor, as has been the case in the recent past, was Hyperstone, which supplies semiconductor flash memory controllers into industrial solid state storage applications and grew by roughly 20% to £6.1m helped by price increases and volume gains; its future looks bright with the company issuing a trade release launching its fully compliant SATA family of serial flash controllers, which will benefit H2. The market opportunity is also 4x larger than the parallel interfaces. ...

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