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Abcam - Results slightly ahead of expectations

September 2011

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Abcam has announced that its results are likely to be slightly ahead of expectations. The company, which sells protein research and detection tools through its Amazon-like website, has driven growth by further extending its geographic coverage and broadening its product range to over 73,652 products at the year-end, while tight cost control has increased both gross and operating margins over the first half. This has more than offset a slight weakness in the US market, which has been unsettled by uncertainties surrounding the National Institute of Health budget. Numis has inched up its current year pretax profit forecast by Â£1.5m to Â£32.3m for eps of 12.7p for the year just ended while current year to 30 June 2012 is broadly unch ...

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