E2V.L Share News (E2V)

Shares in E2V plunged after the electrical component maker posted a 13% drop in annual pre-tax profit as markets became increasingly challenging in the fourth quarter. Adjusted profit before tax fell to £20.4m for the year ended 31 March 2009. Sales were up 14%, due to the benefit of acquisition and FX movements to £233.2m. Commenting on the results chief executive Keith Attwood said, "e2v faced increasingly challenging markets in the final quarter of the year and the group responded with a range of actions delivering a creditable trading performance." Looking forward, conditions remain tough in the first half of the new financial year, Attwood added, "though the stronger than normal order book, along with a good order pipeline, is encouraging for the second half."Content management and translation software company SDL said its software has been selected by US technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) for use in its corporate web sites. HP has selected SDL Tridion Global Web Content Management System to support its needs in global information management.FTSE TechMARK - FallersInion (IIN) 0.50p -33.33%E2V Technologies (E2V) 74.00p -15.91%Oxford Biomedica (OXB) 10.00p -9.09%Puricore (PURI) 13.00p -7.14%Filtronic (FTC) 28.75p -4.96%Corin Group (CRG) 56.50p -4.24%Vernalis (VER) 80.00p -3.90%Trafficmaster (TFC) 30.00p -3.23%ProStrakan (PSK) 92.00p -3.16%Redstone (RED) 8.50p -2.86%FTSE TechMARK - RisersAEA Technology (AAT) 21.00p +13.51%DRS Data (DRS) 16.00p +10.34%Torotrak (TRK) 32.50p +4.84%Oxford Instruments (OXIG) 150.00p +4.53%Anite Group (AIE) 39.50p +3.95%NCC Group (NCC) 360.00p +2.86%Electronic Data Processing (EDP) 42.50p +2.41%Optos (OPTS) 75.00p +2.04%Kewill (KWL) 74.50p +1.36%RM Group (RM.) 168.00p +1.20%