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BATM - Medical side growing fast

March 2010

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  • Epic Code:
  • BVC
  • Price:
  • 40p
Our suggestion to take a part profit last November at 53.25p proved well timed as the shares have been hit post the release of 2009 results. In a difficult market sales for FY09 were ahead by just 1% at US$135m. Pretax profit was US$25m, down from US$26.2m. Adjusted eps were 6.4 cents against 6.7 cents. Net cash was US$66.8m up from US$57.3m, despite spending US$9.7m on buying the freeholds to two of its offices in the US and Israel.Drilling down to the results themselves, sales in the core telecoms business declined 9% to US$105m with particularly poor performances in the US. Offsetting this was good sales growth in the medical division, which supplies management software to control medical devices such as sterilise ...

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