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Keystone Law

November 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • KEYS
  • Price:
  • 342p
As I said in July, Keystone’s best proxy for growth is the number of new lawyers that are joining its network. Sending the shares higher were the latest H1 results, which showed there were 31 new joiners during the period, giving Keystone 297 lawyers at the end of June. This recruitment was ahead of expectations.As it was, for the period Keystone recorded sales up a third at £19.9m and adjusted profit was up by 40% to £2.3m for eps of 6p. As more lawyers signed up expenses didn’t scale in line with this and EBITDA margins expanded to 11.75% from the 10.3% reported in FY18. Panmure has upgraded its eps forecast to 11.3p for the current year and 12.8p next. Strong hold. ...

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