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S4 Capital - Shares surge towards Â£7

August 2021

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The shares hit new highs after S4 said trading accelerated strongly with revenues up 90% in the first four months of 2021. compared with 71% for Q1. Gross profit rose 84% and 71% over the same periods. Early indications are that May will be similar to April while the pipeline for June continues to be robust. Tech clients (over 50% revenues) are still outspending other sectors such as FMCG and retail. As a result, management, which had previously raised organic gross profit guidance from +25% to +30% for 2021, have now raised it again to +35%. S4 also said it is in the process of raising a term loan of over US$350m and Jefferies says this, together with existing cash and its preferred 50:50 cash equity mer ...

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