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October 2024

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The shares staged a remarkable recovery, at one point rising 130p to 570p after it said full year results will now be slightly better than previously lowered forecasts. It guides to sales of £327m-£330m (vs £324m-£327m at the update) and operating profit of £43m-£46m (vs £41m-£44m). Custom research drove the slight out performance while data products was flat and data services down year-on-year. A new chief commercial officer with a focus on: enterprise level clients; cutting the number of clients per account manager (to stop spreading teams too thinly); and a more structured approach to sales leads across the business suggests optimism that top line momentum can be kick-started. Also encouragingly, an accelerated strateg ...

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TMI Trader Portfolio 2 - October '24

YouGov (August 2024)

YouGov - Market research firm to grow eps 11-fold from 6.1p to 68p between FY’14-’26! (June 2024)

YouGov (September 2008)

YouGov - Online market research still growing strongly (May 2008)

YouGov (February 2008)

YouGov - Rally provides profit-taking opportunity (December 2007)

YouGov - 5:1 share split (May 2007)

YouGov - J/V with Centaur Media (April 2007)

YouGov - Makes US acquisition (February 2007)

YouGov - Shares spike nearly Â£3 (November 2006)

YouGov - Rocketing growth at online market research firm (September 2006)

YouGov - Fast growing online market research play (July 2006)

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