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Caretech - Spitting distance of 1,500 beds

January 2010

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  • Epic Code:
  • CTH
  • Price:
  • 430p
Full year results to 30 September were excellent with pretax profit up 45% to £15.3m on sales up 23% to £83.4m, partly reflecting the impact of the 2008 acquisitions and that of Lyndhurst in 2009. Eps were up 26% to 27.1p.As we said in our previous write-ups Caretech has already substantially strengthened its regional infrastructure to support the short term objective of 1,500 beds. Little new investment is needed to support the additional beds  and this is seeing operating margins climb strongly. During FY09, bed capacity lifted by 122 to 1,430, of which 97 were organic and 25 came from Lyndhurst. With utilisation remaining high, operating margins have jumped sharply once again from 25.5% in 2008 to 27.3%.Caretech†...

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