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NCC

April 2011

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NCC, the provider of escrow solutions, announced strong H1 results with adjusted operating profit rising 26% to Â£7.4m on turnover that rose 49% to Â£33m. Eps was up 25% to 15.2p. Orders and renewals rose 33% to Â£41m providing strong forward visibility to earnings. The core escrow solutions side sits between a software developer and its licensee, holding critical material (usually source code) that it will release under certain events such as the software developer going bust. In H1 it achieved a 10% rise in revenues to Â£11.9m, while profits rose 12% to Â£6.7m. The second half will benefit from a 5% price increase introduced last November but encouragingly this hasn't worsened customer attrition with the termination rate remaini ...

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April 2011

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