RE: Trading update12 Apr 2022 12:24
Some of these comments are remarkable , “new clients have only grown 5%”, a net increase from 1385 to 1634 is not 5%, it is c18% or take 528 new clients as a % of the 2021 total of 1385 it’s c40%. Is the co growing , yes, does it make net cash inflows, yes, does it make a profit, yes, is the profit margin stable (including additional hires) , yes, is it debt free, yes, does it issue a dividend , yes. So the forecast revenue of c£36m was short by 5% , anyone who has managed a multi million pound business will know business forecasting was made to make weathermen look good. The whole of the underlying financial story is the headline not the accuracy of the revenue forecast. The one point I would note here is that their competitors apparently would seem to have increased revenues by a larger margin, but that is why their PE ratios are presumably much higher. A share worth persevering with imo.