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White Young Green - Makes two more acquisitions

April 2005

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With its order book standing at record levels and 60% of forecast turnover for 2006 already in the bag, it's hardly surprising that shares in consulting engineer, White Young Green, remain close to their all time high of 298p. Results for the six months ended 31 December were in line with its pre-close update and revealed a 44% jump in pretax profit to £4.2m and 11% increase in earnings to 2.4p, while sales rose 64% to £65.8m. Excluding acquisitions turnover grew by 13%, while its net order book increased to £220m, helped by new multi-year framework contracts worth £35m. Operating margins were maintained at over 9% in spite of the costs of integrating the IMC acquisition. Wit ...

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