ECO Animal Health 'cautiously optimistic'

ECO Animal Health reported a 66.9% jump in full-year pre-tax profit and said it remains cautiously optimistic about the likely trading outturn in the current financial year.Profit attributable to shareholders before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation, share based payments and exceptional items rose to £3.74m in the year ended 31 March from £2.24m last time. Turnover was up 17.4% at £19.34m.The board is recommending an unchanged final dividend of 5.45p per share making a total for the year of 7.15p."The current financial year has started strongly. We remain cautiously optimistic about the likely trading outturn in view of the generally difficult global economic environment and the currency translation effect of the dollar/sterling exchange rate," said chief executive Peter Lawrence.