Primary Recommendation

YouGov - Rocketing growth at online market research firm

September 2006

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YouGov, which conducts online market research and opinion polling, has made a huge impression on investors since it came to market in April last year. We’re struggling to remember the last time we spotted a company which in little over a year has been forced to revise market expectations upwards on no fewer than four occasions. However, the force is most certainly with YouGov, whose pretax profit has rocketed from £0.7m in 2004 to an expected £4.3m in the financial year, which ended last month (31 July). After meeting co-founder and joint chief executive Nadhim Zahawi over the month, we have every confidence that YouGov, whose market value is still just £68m, has what it takes to become a significantly larger pl ...

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