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Tracsis - Stellar performance from MPEC

November 2012

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Tracsisâ€™ excellent full year results were, as anticipated, driven largely by MPEC, which provides self monitoring assets, which log faults on the rail network. That division, which contributed for 12 months as opposed to two last year, quadrupled sales to Â£4.5m and with the other two legs of the business also growing organically, overall sales were Â£8.7m. Pretax profit was Â£3.3m for eps of 11.1p. When we spoke to chief executive John McArthur, our main concern was that MPEC is reliant on a single customer, Network Rail, and its margins are much higher than the rest of the business. Macarthur is coy on giving the margin away but assuming 20% margin on the other side (software and consultancy) suggests MPECâ€™s margin is in fac ...

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