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YouGov - Rally provides profit-taking opportunity

December 2007

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A strong set of results from online market research firm YouGov hashelped the shares launch into a strong rally. For the year ended 31July, turnover increased 51% to Â£14.3m, while pretax profit rose 39% toÂ£5.7m. Eps increased 36% to 6.1p. Net cash stood at Â£4.1m.In the UK revenues grew 65% to Â£7.9m, with pretax profit increasing42% to Â£2.7m, driven by YouGovâ€™s focus on its complementary productssuch as BrandIndex, Omnibus and its bespoke offering. Its Middle Eastoperation also performed well with turnover rising 39% to Â£6.4m andpretax profit increasing 43% to Â£2.8m, driven by a combination of theSiraj acquisition and new client wins. However, the company has considerably bulked up since then with thepost year-end a ...

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