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NCC - 11% growth in beneficiaries

March 2009

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  • Epic Code:
  • NCC
  • Price:
  • 343p
Given that NCC's core escrow solutions business operates in the resilient disaster recovery space it wasn't surprising that the company produced decent interim results, with revenues increasing 27% to £20.8m and pretax profit rising 13% to £5.2m for the six months to 30 November. Net debt increased from £0.2m to £11.9m following an acquisition but this is well covered by a recently agreed in principle loan for £15m expiring in July 2010.NCC's escrow solutions business, in which it sits between a software developer and its licencee holding critical material (usually source code) that it will release under certain “trigger events†such as if the developer goes bust or fails to maintain the software, increased sales 17% to £ ...

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