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NETeller - Another earnings upgrade

May 2006

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  • Epic Code:
  • NLR
  • Price:
  • 797p
Final results for online payment processor NETeller were very strong, with pretax profit increasing 114% to US$97.8m and turnover rising 108% to US$172.1m. Helped by a reduction in the tax charge from 28% to 6.4%, fully diluted earnings jumped from 37 cents to 75 cents (43p). Gross margins rose sharply from 69.4% to 73.5% helped by a reduction in bad debts from 14.2% to 12.1%. NETeller’s strong cash generation enabled it to end the year with free cash of nearly US$115m, compared to US$77m in 2004. NETeller traditionally divulges little information about current trading at this point but it did note that its customer base reached a new milestone of 2.5 million. It has also increased its roster of on-line gaming merchants to ...

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