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December 2024

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Tracsis didn’t hit the full year expectations set at the start of the year due to the election torpedoing contract awards in the last two months of the year. Sales were flat at £81m but pretax profit went from £13.7m to £10.5m for EPS down 35% to 25.1p. There was also £3m of exceptionals to streamline the legal entity structure. Net cash was £19.8m. Rail Technology & Services sales were flat at £37.6m and EBITDA down by £0.6m to £9.8m. However, repeat revenue increased by 10% to £25.5m, driven by strong growth in the UK (UK sales grew 10% to £31.9m) from the deployment of contracts won in previous years eg. two PAYG contracts with UK train operators and a multi-year delay repay contract. As CEO Chris Barnes explained to ...

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