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June 2024

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  • Epic Code:
  • ADVT
  • Price:
  • 142.5p
With c.£103m in cash and assets, Vin Murria has once again gone shopping, paying £5m for Celation, which owns a machine-learning AI-based intelligent process automation platform (InSTREAM) - not that this is making much of a dent in the cash pile. Interest income received was £2.2m and there has been a £2.6m increase in the fair value of the M&C Saatchi stake since I last wrote on it. Celation is well known to Murria as like ADVT’s significant shareholder, BGF Investment Management, each owns 45%. In the year ending June ‘23, Celation had sales of £3.3m (80% recurring subscription/transactional) with EBITDA before development costs of £1.2m. This equates to an acquisition multiple of 1.5x sales or 4.2x EBITDA, another attracti ...

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