Updates

NSB

February 2007

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.

NSB has issued a pre-close statement reporting that operating profits for the year to 31 December will come in short of expectations, although its expectations for the current year remain unchanged. Adjusted operating profit will be slightly ahead of the previous year's US$18.1m but lower than forecasts of around US$21.4m mainly due to several licence deals slipping outside of 2006. In addition, profit would have been US$2.5m higher but for adverse currency movements. Year end cash balances were US$33m driven by strong upfront licence payments. The delayed contracts are expected to fall into the current year and even though the pipeline remains higher than this time last year, brokers have conservatively not upgraded their forec ...

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