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March 2007

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  • Epic Code:
  • BVC
  • Price:
  • 30p
BATM has reported 2006 results which included a six month contribution from its Metrobility acquisition. Overall sales grew by 30% to US$73.5m with an operating profit of US$7.7m. That compares to a loss of US$4.5m on sales of US$56.5m in 2005. Part of the improvement was due to a reduction in the R&D team in the US but gross margins have also continued to improve at 42.3% up from 41% at H1 06 as old legacy products have phased out leaving higher margin IP products which include a greater element of software to represent most of the sales. Net cash at the year end was US$50.4m. Eps was 2.62 cents on a 7% tax rate. The segment to which BATM is mainly exposed is the migration of telcos to Ethernet switch routers to support voice ...

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