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RWS - Acquisition improves patent translator’s eps growth prospects

July 2012

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  • Epic Code:
  • RWS
  • Price:
  • 480p
AIM-listed RWS, the leading provider of patent translation and other search services, has chiselled out a highly lucrative niche for itself with sales and pretax profit increasing from £31m and £6m to £65.1m and £16.2m respectively in the past seven years. As you might expect the shares have responded with a stellar climb from a placing price of 112.5p back in November 2003 to a high earlier this year of 560p, before going into remission in the market turbulence. The vast majority of RWS' business comprises translation services of which patent translation (70% divisional sales) is the most significant. Operating through offices in Europe, New York, Beijing and Tokyo RWS translates more than 65,000 patents and intellectual prop ...

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