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Parity

January 2014

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Parity's profits have continued to improve but the shares have yet to really take off. The company has said that profits for the year to end December before pre-strategic costs will be at least £2.5m, up from £1.1m last year. Divisionally, within the Digital side, Inition has grown profits sharply whilst the systems business remains stable with good profit margins. Elsewhere, the IT contractor side has returned to growth with 950 contractors at client sites whilst the Irish talent management side has been a bit muted due to stretched educational budgets. We would have expected the first Digital acquisition by now coincident with the appointment of a new broker (Investec - who has yet to release a note) and also Philip Swinstead's ...

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