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Alliance Pharma

October 2010

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After strong interims, shares in speciality pharmaceutical firm Alliance Pharma have soared to 37p, nicely ahead of our main recommendation price of 20.75p. Pretax profit rose a full 166% to Â£7.7m on turnover that rose 77% to Â£23.4m. Eps rose 98% to 2.5p. Gross margins shifted up sharply from 53% to 61% reflecting a change in mix towards higher margin products. Encouragingly, despite funding around Â£7m of the acquisition of Cambridge Labs with debt the group ended the period with slightly lower net debt than a year ago. Net debt to EBITDA fell from 2 times to just 1.3, while it also reduced its outstanding convertible loan stock from Â£7.5m to Â£5m. The strong performance reflected not only first time contributions from ...

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