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Plus500 - Soon-to-be prospective PE just 6.6

December 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • PLUS
  • Price:
  • 577p
The sale of 15.5m shares by directors at 650p (they retain 22.1%) unsettled the shares but its Q3 trading update shows it’s well on track with 14% revenue growth in the first nine months to US$236.3m.Plus500, a leading UK provider of commission free trading in CFDs, added another 25,000 customers in Q3 taking total new customers to 82,000 in the first nine months. The number of active customers also rose 12% to 131,346, while average revenue per customer increased 7% to US$1,107 in Q3 versus Q2.Part of the problem with such rapid new customer growth is that the costs of acquisition and customer onboarding are felt up-front, which is why EBITDA margins fell to 37% in H1 ’16 versus 44% in H1 ’15. So it was rea ...

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