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Interactive World - Operating margins of 46.7%

October 2006

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  • Epic Code:
  • ITW
  • Price:
  • 90p
The shares moved higher after Interactive announced its results for the year to 31 July. The company actively continues to look for acquisitions though none were completed in the period. Hence turnover was only up 2% to £9.1m. Pretax profit grew 37% to £4.3m for eps of 7.7p. The big money spinner continues to be monetising of the celebrity and adult content produced by the Sport Newspapers under its exclusive five year rolling contract. The nature of its content continues to titillate a subset of the population which is part of the reason why Interactive has been the only company in its quoted peer group to not warn on profits. That said, the year saw a further decline on the internet side from £2.8m to £ ...

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