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Tarsus

May 2013

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  • Epic Code:
  • TRS
  • Price:
  • 234p
Tarsus' full-year results were ahead of expectations at all levels with turnover, pretax profit and eps coming in at £51.5m, £14.8m and 12.1p against forecasts for £48.9m, £13.2m and 10.8p respectively. Net debt was £15.7m (2012: £13.7m). This being an “off year” for its two largest events the best barometer of its progress is to compare with its previous off year in 2010 and this shows growth in turnover, pretax profit and eps of 18%, 56% and 17% respectively. There's little new news to report since our main write-up three months ago, save for the fact that the outlook remains buoyant with forward bookings on a like-for-like basis 16% ahead of this time last year. Encouragingly, boo ...

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