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Vislink - H2 margins get to 15.8%

May 2015

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The shares pushed towards the highs after results for 2014 were announced. Sales were up 3% at £61.4m but would have been well down were it not for Pebble Beach, a supplier of broadcast software, included for nine months. Pebble Beach is proving to be a golden goose as it is a high margin software licence business and has ensured pretax profits were up from £4.4m to £7.1m. Adjusted eps was 4.1p.Clearly Pebble saved the day in 2014 with a £3.3m profit and £8.3m sales contribution and is now reported within the Broadcast segment. Stripping this out “Old” Vislink’s Broadcast segment saw sales down 22% from £48m to £37.7m whilst the “old” Vislink Surveillance segme ...

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Vislink - Sells lossmaking hardware side (December 2016)

Vislink (August 2016)

Vislink (April 2016)

Vislink (January 2016)

Vislink - Old Vislink still struggling but software takes off (October 2015)

Vislink (October 2014)

Vislink - Pebble Beach acquisition widens market by £200m (April 2014)

Vislink (January 2014)

Vislink (October 2013)

Vislink - Two directors buy shares (July 2013)

Vislink - Targets £8m profit by 2014 (May 2013)

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