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Wilmington

March 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • WIL
  • Price:
  • 274p
Last month’s issue of SCSW referred to Wilmington’s acquisition of Wellards as being the first under chief executive Pedro Ros. Actually, it was the second as I had totally forgotten Ros acquired Financial Research Associates (FRA) last summer.The company has just released H1 results showing sales up 7% or £3.3m to £49.4m and pretax profit up 10% to £8.9m. Adjusted eps was up 11% at 7.9p. FRA contributed £2.9m to sales so organic growth looks fairly muted at just £0.4m or 2% but as in previous years there is a H2 weighting. FRA also only made a modest contribution as it too is H2 loaded and a 20% margin business. This year will include a maiden contribution from Wellards.The results d ...

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