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Craneware

March 2012

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  • Epic Code:
  • CRW
  • Price:
  • 330p
Craneware has disappointed the market with its half year update noting that while revenues increased 12%, adjusted EBITDA will be in line with last year (H1 2011: US$4.6m). However if the recent acquisition, Craneware Insight, had not been included, adjusted EBITDA would have risen over 15%. Craneware noted that despite continued growth in the sales pipeline, sales cycles have extended for all the group's product families. This is due to “an unexpectedly high percentage of healthcare providers focusing on achieving the 31 December 2011 deadline for the First Electronic Health Records Incentive payments.†Apparently now that this deadline has passed and with far fewer US hospitals remaining to apply in 2012, management expects s ...

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