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LIDCO GROUP PLC

("LiDCO" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Final Results

LiDCO (AIM: LID), the hemodynamic monitoring company, announces its audited Final Results for the year ended 31 January 2018.

Financial highlights

· LiDCO product revenue (excluding third party products) up 2% to £6.87m (2017: £6.76m)

· Total revenue up 1% to £8.27m (2017: £8.21m)

· Capital sales up 50% to £1.87m (2017: £1.25m)

· High Usage Programme (HUP) deferred revenues of £0.60m (2017: nil)

· Gross margin (excluding third party products) of 73% (2017: 79%)

· Adjusted loss before tax* of £1.84m (2017: profit £0.06m)

· Reported loss before tax of £2.22m (2017: profit £0.10m)

· Loss per share of 0.86 pence (2017: profit per share 0.09 pence)

· Net cash outflow before financing of £1.67m (2017: inflow £0.52m), following investment in growth plan

· Debt free with cash at year-end of £3.23m (2017: £4.90m)

* adjusted for share-based payments of £0.1m and one-off stock write-down of £0.3m

Details on revenue, gross margin and cash are provided in the full statement below and in the Company presentation. A summary slide can be viewed here:

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Operational highlights

· LiDCO product revenues excluding China up 9% to £6.87m (2017: £6.27m), with an additional £0.60m (2017: nil) of deferred revenues on the balance sheet

· No sales to China (2017: £0.49m) due to temporary hold on product sales pending approval of a key accessory

· Execution of geographical expansion plan following 2016 fundraising. Recruitment of 10 sales & marketing heads

· First two HUP accounts in USA announced in the year and largest UK customer also agreed to convert to HUP

· At 31 January 2018, global HUP installed base of 96 monitors generating total annualised license revenue of £0.73m (2017: nil)

· New monitor platform with additional functionality launched in USA, Europe and Japan following regulatory clearances

· 315 monitors sold/placed (2017: 227)

· First royalty revenues received from ICU Medical

· New strategic partners signed as exclusive distributors in Japan (Merit Medical) and France (Spacelabs)

· Appointment of Jill McGregor as Chief Financial Officer

Post year end

· Notification of termination of UK Argon Critical Care products distribution contract in September 2018

Commenting on the results Matthew Sassone, Chief Executive Officer, said: "As planned, 2017 was an investment year for LiDCO and I am encouraged by the way our expansion plan is developing in line with our strategy. Excluding China, LiDCO sales grew 9%, and we also added £0.6m of deferred revenues from our HUP, where we have a strong and growing pipeline of opportunities.

"The launch of the new monitor, the transition to multi-year HUP contracts and a one-off inventory write off has affected our profitability in the short-term. However, we remain on track to benefit from greatly improved earnings as we continue to win HUP contracts, which bring good forward visibility and cash generation."

The Company presentation of results will be available from today on the LiDCO website: www.lidco.com.

Strategic Report

This was a year of investment as the Group expanded its commercial presence in the USA whilst building from a solid platform in our home UK market. The Group also introduced its novel differentiated business model, High Usage Plan (HUP), which has the potential to substantially increase the adoption of hemodynamic monitoring and provide good forward visibility of our revenues and cash flows. Through these actions, we believe that we have better positioned the Group for sustained higher growth in the medium term.

Overall 2017 was a successive year of growth, with LiDCO product revenues growing 2% over prior year. However, the underlying performance was even stronger when considering the revenue recognition effect of HUP, with deferred revenues up £0.60m, as well as the temporary hold on product sales to China pending approval of a key accessory.

The fundamentals of the business remain strong and we continue to progress our strategy, which can be grouped under the following headings:

· Geographical expansion from a solid UK home market

· Commercial success with a differentiated business model

· Maintaining technology leadership

Geographical expansion

The Board estimates that the global market for hemodynamic monitoring is currently in excess of $200m per annum of which we have approximately a 4% share. In the UK, the Group enjoys a strengthening market leading position, with over 50% of NHS acute care hospitals using its technology and has continued to grow revenues in what many regard as challenging conditions. However, the UK still represents 60% of LiDCO product revenues and the Board has identified a number of key geographies where we feel that we can gain a more significant market share.

The USA is the largest market for hemodynamic monitoring, representing nearly half of the global demand. We believe this market offers the Group the greatest opportunity to grow and have invested in expanding our local commercial presence to 11 people to realise this. Whilst highly competitive, early indications are that the market is responding well to our differentiated pricing approach and we have developed a significant pipeline of potential large users that previously would not have considered changing from their current supplier.

Japan is the second largest hemodynamic monitoring market, and, whilst LiDCO has been present in the market for a number of years, market share has been less than 1% in a market that is historically difficult to penetrate due to challenging registration and reimbursement processes. It is pleasing that during the year we registered our new monitor platform as well as signing a new exclusive distributorship with Merit Medical, which has a well-established commercial infrastructure in the market. This positions the Group well to exploit the local reimbursement for both its minimally invasive and non-invasive technologies and gain greater market share in this established hemodynamic market.

In the rest of the world, we continue to make progress in creating the infrastructure needed to deliver our geographical expansion plans. Our internal resources are focused on managing distributors in the territories with the greatest mid-to-long term market opportunities, and we utilise master distribution companies to manage those distributors which we feel will be better served by a more local presence. As part of this more tailored approach to distribution management, we have selected markets within Europe, the Middle East and Asia where we have identified strong growth opportunities and are investing with the right partners to achieve the necessary registrations and promotional activities to further market development and widen the adoption of hemodynamic monitoring.

During the financial year ending January 2018, we invested significantly in additional commercial headcount for the USA, Europe and the Middle East in order to accelerate future revenue growth and gain greater market share outside of our home market. Supplementary to this we also added extra commercial headcount in the UK in order to reinforce our market leading position in our home market.

Commercial Focus

During the year the Group invested heavily in the commercial activities of the business in order to improve our sales efforts and the way that we promote ourselves globally. As well as additional headcount, we increased our marketing efforts to raise the profile of LiDCO in our targeted markets. This involved higher profile attendance at key trade shows in the USA, an extensive digital promotional campaign and the launch of new websites.

Tied into our commercial approach is the transition to HUP. This differentiated license agreement model is focused on attracting the larger more established users of hemodynamic monitoring to convert to LiDCO technology, especially but not exclusively in our key growth US market. Although HUP involves customers paying in advance for the services, under IFRS, revenue is only recognised over the period which the payment covers. As the business transitions to HUP we expect to benefit from enhanced cash flow but the deferral of revenue will mean that there is a lag effect on the profit and loss account. As the HUP programme builds, the Board believes that these multi-year license agreements will provide good visibility of future revenues alongside strong cash generation that will greatly enhance the quality of the Group's earnings.

Technology Leadership

In July 2017 we launched our striking new slim widescreen monitor platform, LiDCOunity v2. It incorporates the core value proposition of combining the full suite of LiDCO technology into one offering. The new monitor brings together LiDCO's non-invasive, minimally invasive and calibrated technologies, enabling continuous hemodynamic monitoring, including monitoring of level of consciousness across the entire clinical pathway in one monitor. In addition, it has a number of new additional features, such as an updated graphical user interface with a more intuitive menu system, internal battery for transportation and new clinical guidance protocols to aid users.

The launch of this new product was one of the factors behind our strong capital sales performance this year.

Financial Review

Revenues

LiDCO product revenues in the year grew by 2% to £6.87m (2017: £6.76m) with total revenues (including third party products) up 1% to £8.27m (2017: £8.21m). Excluding China, where no sales were recorded in the year as regulatory approval is sought to register a key accessory and the new monitor platform, LiDCO product revenues were up 9% to £6.87m (2017: £6.27m). Total revenues in China were £0.49m in 2017.

As of 31 January 2018, LiDCO had £0.60m (2017: nil) of deferred revenues on the balance sheet arising from the HUP, with a global installed base of 96 monitors generating total annualised license revenue of £0.73m (2017: nil).

Further comment on revenues by territory is provided in the operational review.

Gross profit and margin

The overall gross profit margin from LiDCO product revenues was 73% (2017: 79%) with 3% of the reduction resulting from an increase in the inventory provision of £0.3m due to obsolescence of older products, especially following the launch of the new monitor. The remaining 3% reduction in margin was due to the mix of products sold during the year - there was an increased proportion of lower margin capital sales and a lower proportion of higher margin consumables, which was not offset by the effect of the higher margin HUP business as most of that revenue was deferred until 2018/19. The gross margin achieved on the sale of third party products remained unchanged at 20%. Overall, gross profit reduced by 6% to £5.27m (2017: £5.60m).

Overheads

Overheads before share-based payments increased to £7.38m (2017: £5.54m) as expected, due to the increase in commercial activities and additional headcount primarily in the USA. Personnel-related costs remained at 66% of overheads and the average full time equivalent headcount (excluding non-executive directors) was 49 employees (2017: 42 employees). Share-based payments resulted in a charge of £109,000 (2017: credit £41,000).

Earnings and tax

The Group made an adjusted loss before tax (adjusting for share-based payments of £0.1m and a one-off stock write down of £0.3m) of £1.84m (2017: profit £0.06m). After charging for share-based payments and receiving the benefit of £0.12m of research and development tax credits, the Group made an overall loss for the year of £2.09m (2017: profit £0.19m), equating to a loss per share of 0.86 pence (2017: profit per share 0.09 pence).

Cash flow, borrowings and cash balances

The Group invested in additional headcount and marketing activities as expected and had a net cash outflow in the year before financing activities of £1.67m (2017: inflow £0.52m). HUP contributed £0.3m of positive cash flow in the year (2017: nil).

Year-end cash balances amounted to £3.23m (2017: £4.90m). The Group remains debt free.

Property, plant and equipment

There was a net increase in property, plant and equipment in the year of £0.10m. Investment in medical monitors totalled £0.39m comprising HUP monitors, medical monitors placed on long term loan to hospitals in the UK and USA for active use, where the hospital pays for consumables, and monitors for demonstration purposes and clinical trials.

Intangible assets

Expenditure on intangible assets in the period was £0.48m (2017: £0.52m) of which £0.42m (2017: £0.46m) was spent on product development with a further £0.06m (2017: £0.06m) on new product registrations predominantly in overseas territories. Expenditure on product development included the next generation LiDCOunity hardware platform, significant improvements to the operating system and the graphical user interface, and amendments to the software to allow additional flexible pricing models.

Inventory

Inventory reduced to £1.35m in the year (2017: £1.47m). During the year an additional £0.3m was charged to the profit and loss account for inventory provisions and write-offs due to obsolescence of older products, especially following the launch of the new monitor. Traditional rates of inventory turn cannot always be applied to the Group as it relies on a number of single-source key suppliers and strategically maintains high levels of inventory in respect of such suppliers.

Operational Review

Revenue performance by product and key geographies 

Capital revenues include the sales of monitors and other equipment to customers. Recurring revenues are sales of consumables including smartcards and sensors, software licenses (including HUP) and service contracts. Japan revenues have now been included within Rest of World.

During the period a total of 315 monitors (2017: 227 monitors) were sold or placed in the year primarily due to the launch of the new monitor platform and the HUP business model. Revenue from capital sales was £1.87m (2017: £1.25m). Recurring revenues decreased by 10% to £4.89m (2017: £5.42m). This decline can be mainly attributed to the transition to HUP and not being able to recognise all the revenue in year, as well as a reduction in recurring revenue sales in our distributor markets primarily due to China.

UK

LiDCO had another strong performance in its home market, building on its market leading position. LiDCO product revenues grew 9% to £4.14m (2017: £3.79m). The growth was driven by strong monitor sales, with capital revenues of £0.69m (2017: £0.34m), up 103% compared with the prior year, boosted by the launch of the Group's new monitor LiDCOunity v2 increasing volumes and achieving a higher selling price.

The Group has decided to selectively introduce the HUP model to the UK, and, in the year, converted its largest UK customer to this model. The intention is to demonstrate the clinical and economic benefits of expanding the use of hemodynamic monitoring, thereby seeking to re-engage national support and guidelines for wider adoption.

Sales of third party Argon Medical products in the UK declined 3% to £1.40m (2017: £1.45m) as a result of the current pricing pressure climate of the NHS. After year end the Group announced that Merit Medical, which recently acquired the Argon Medical business, has given notice to terminate LiDCO's UK distribution contract. In 2017/18 Argon products contributed £1.4 million to the overall sales of LiDCO at 20% gross margin (compared to 73% margins from LiDCO products). The Group is looking for other distribution opportunities to take advantage of its sales reach in the UK, which it hopes will attract higher margins.

USA

The Board has identified the USA as the market with the greatest opportunities for growth, with the region continuing to develop as the adoption of hemodynamic monitoring continues to expand.

Historically, we sold direct via a small sales team and as a result, market access has been a limiting factor in LiDCO's success in this competitive market. During the year we invested in expanding our local commercial presence to 11 people, as well as launching our differentiated license fee model, HUP. These investments were in place for the second half of the year.

With the benefit of a strong first half performance driven by capital sales, LiDCO's revenues in the USA for the year were up 15% to £1.36m (2017: £1.18m). The focus in the second half of the year was weighted towards the launch of HUP and at the end of January 2018 the Group had 58 HUP monitors under multi-year agreements with annualised recurring revenues in excess of $0.6m.

The feedback from HUP has been extremely positive and the expanded team has been able to develop a significant pipeline of opportunities. Although by targeting the highest users of advanced hemodynamic monitoring the selling cycle remains quite long, we are confident that this is the right strategy to take share in this large and growing market.

Late in 2017, we started to receive royalty income from ICU Medical, which has licensed LiDCO's core algorithm for its new CogentTM monitor. This product is currently only available in the USA and has been launched to support their substantial existing invasive catheter-based cardiac output monitoring business. We see ICU Medical's approach as symbiotic to our offering, however do not expect forthcoming royalty payments to have a material impact in 2018/19.

Continental Europe

Sales in Europe declined by 32% to £0.50m (2017: £0.74m) with total monitor sales of 52 units compared with 38 units last financial year. This year we experienced strong sales in Spain, Denmark and Switzerland. The latter two countries successfully launching HUP, with the subsequent short term impact to recurring revenues. The rest of the shortfall in recurring revenues in this region can be attributed to weaker consumable sales to the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Serbia, where we are working with our distributors on local activities to support the installed base of business.

We continue to refresh our approach, especially to expand our presence in some of the larger countries in the region as demonstrated by the recent announcement that the Group signed an exclusive three year agreement with Spacelabs Healthcare to distribute its products in France.

As part of the expansion plan, we have invested in a dedicated distribution manager for this region and expect to build a more significant business in 2018/19.

Rest of World

Sales in ROW declined by 18% to £0.86m (2017: £1.06m) due to not being able to sell products to our Chinese distributor whilst the Group registers a key accessory and its new monitor platform, as announced during 2017. Excluding China, sales in ROW actually grew by 52% driven by strong growth in Japan and the Middle East.

During the year, the Group announced the registration of its latest monitor platform and the appointment of Merit Medical Japan, a leading provider of critical care products, as its new exclusive distributor in Japan. Japan is the world's second largest market for advanced hemodynamic monitoring, it has a highly embedded market leader and is historically a conservative market to change. However, in the year, LiDCO experienced strong in-market growth of consumable sales and now, with the combined effects of launching our new monitor and partnering with Merit Medical, the Board believes that LiDCO is well positioned to gain greater market share in this important market.

Following good growth in the Middle East in the previous year, the Group decided to invest in a locally based clinical training resource. Working with our master distributor, we are building a good foundation across multiple countries and have been able to register our products in other key countries such as Saudi Arabia.

As previously announced, during the year, the Group made no sales to its Chinese distributor due to the requirement to gain further regulatory approval in China for a key accessory and the new monitor. LiDCO is continuing to support its distributor in seeking these regulatory approvals, and whilst it is difficult to forecast exactly when this will be achieved, the Group anticipates this will be during 2018. The future prospects for LiDCO in the country remain strong and we do not believe that this temporary delay in our sales effort will reduce our ability to take share in this rapidly developing hemodynamic market in the medium term.

New Products

The key achievement in the year was the launch of the new monitor platform, LiDCOunity v2. This new look monitor platform has received very positive customer feedback and driven the strong capital sales in year. Since launch, at the end of H1, we have shipped over 200 units.

The new monitor hardware is a significant step forward and provides the platform for new developments in the future. In near term we expect incremental software development on the new monitor platform, as we evaluate emerging opportunities to expand from the core LiDCO technology offering.

New Business Model

Incorporated in the new monitor platform is LiDCO's highly differentiated High Usage Programme (HUP), which has also been a success since its launch.

HUP is a software license fee offering that enables customers to use LiDCO's non-invasive and minimally invasive technology for a fixed flat fee without limiting patient numbers. Until now, all hemodynamic monitoring has been charged on a per patient basis, either through fees or through charging for consumables. The Directors believe that this has limited the use of monitoring, despite multiple studies having demonstrated its significant benefits to patients and reduction of overall healthcare costs. The Directors believe that LiDCO's HUP proposition to the customer is simple and compelling, allowing hospitals to treat more patients for less cost per patient and for a known fixed cost.

Due to the way that LiDCO's algorithm works its been possible to make LiDCOunity v2 monitors work, in HUP mode only, without any requirement for dedicated consumables, meaning that we can provide unlimited usage whilst maintaining high gross margins.

Early indications are confirming the Board's belief that this new software licensing model will encourage higher patient use, increase technology adoption and provide greater visibility of future revenue.

Intellectual Property

Underpinning our technology and revenue streams is a strong brand and patent position. Patent cover provides us with a protectable product and strong market position. Wherever possible we take the initiative in developing and protecting our advances in physiological signal processing and intelligent graphical user interfaces. During the year, we have submitted further patent applications on novel developments that enhance our core technology.

Outlook

The Group has invested significantly in our commercial operations, ensuring that we have the resources to expand our product sales into the many countries where adoption of advanced hemodynamic monitoring is now occurring. Combined with our new product launches and the introduction of the new high usage pricing model, we are well placed to exploit the large number of opportunities in our pipeline.

As the business continues to win HUP contracts, it will transition towards more multi-year license contracts, providing good visibility of revenues alongside strong cash generation. The Board expects this to greatly enhance the quality of the Group's earnings although accounting for such contracts will have a short-term impact on revenue recognition as the income will typically be spread over the term of the contract as opposed to monitor and consumables revenues being recognised when invoiced. The Board expects the installed base of monitors to continue to grow but the transition to HUP will make comparisons with prior years difficult in the short term, especially in the first half of 2018/19 due to the high value of capital sales in the USA.

Although notice has been given to terminate the distribution agreement for Argon Medical products at the end of September 2018, the Board aims to offset the effect of this by signing additional distribution agreements to take advantage of its sales reach in the UK.

The Board is targeting a year of significant sales growth for LiDCO products in 2018/19 compared with the year just ended and believes that gross profit margins will return to historical levels due to higher recurring revenues. Operational expenses are expected to remain at a similar level to 2017/18.

The Board believes that the Group has good prospects for growth and looks to the future with confidence.

How we create value: our business model

LiDCO is a UK-based manufacturer and supplier of monitoring equipment. LiDCO monitors are 'platform' in design. This means they can be easily and cost-effectively upgraded to add new software features and parameters by the addition of USB-connected modules. Our technology, coupled with our low-cost manufacturing and product sourcing skills, combine to produce a highly differentiated, patent-protected monitor with a recurring income stream either from the sale of dedicated high margin single patient use consumables and / or usage licenses.

Our monitors continuously display a number of crucial physiological parameters including arterial blood pressure, the effects of anaesthesia on the level of consciousness of the brain, the requirement for intravenous fluids and the amount of blood and oxygen supplied to the body's tissues and organs. We provide this crucial data via an easy-to-interpret monitor user interface which helps clinicians and nurses ensure that vital organs are adequately perfused and that patients are not over-anaesthetised or sedated.

Historically, hemodynamic monitoring was invasive in nature, requiring the insertion of invasive central catheters. For this reason, it was only available to a restricted number of the high-risk patients that could potentially benefit. LiDCO's technology does not require the insertion of central catheters and can be used completely non-invasively and in both ventilated and non-ventilated patients.

Our customers are acute care physicians and nurses working in major hospitals caring for emergency and high-risk patients. Hospitals are migrating away from invasive technologies towards the use of less invasive monitoring, which has been shown to be cost effective and improve outcomes. Use of LiDCO monitors in high-risk patients in both intensive care and surgical settings has been shown to reduce mortality, complications, length of hospital stay and improve quality of life.

The key features of our business model:

We have developed a new generation of hemodynamic monitoring products designed to address a growing market opportunity - the current market is internally estimated to be $200m. LiDCO's internal calculations have estimated that there is scope for patients and healthcare providers to benefit from a substantial increase in use of hemodynamic monitoring, which could lead to a full market potential of up to $2 billion per annum. Key features of our business model include:

· We generate revenues principally through the sale of single-use consumables and / or the sale of usage licenses into a growing installed base of LiDCO-enabled monitors.

· Our new HUP model is designed to encourage an increase in use of hemodynamic monitoring by leasing monitors and software and allowing healthcare providers to have unrestricted use of the leased assets, rather than paying on a per patient basis.

· HUP contracts are medium-term contracts paid periodically in advance .

· Our consumable products are produced in high volume with low cost manufacturing processes and have a high margin.

· Sales of our products are supported by over 200 clinical studies and an ever-growing body of evidence to satisfy purchaser requirements for clinical and cost-effectiveness.

· We protect our recurring revenue income stream through having patented products with high levels of proprietary intellectual property which are subject to on-going development.

· We provide first-class training and education to our customers. This helps entrench our technology and reduce hospitals costs, with a focus on providing LiDCO with a sustainable recurring income.

Delivering our objectives: our strategy

Our strategy is to build shareholder value through the commercialisation of LiDCO monitoring systems and associated high margin recurring revenues. Excellence in product design, manufacturing and sales and marketing are at the core of our values. Our products are patent protected and supported by a growing body of data showing their clinical and cost-effectiveness. Our technology is not only usable in traditional locations such as the intensive care and surgery departments, but also in any area of the hospital where high-risk patients require such monitoring. Hospitals acquiring our hemodynamic platform monitors can transition from traditional invasive catheter-based monitoring to LiDCO's minimally or non-invasive monitoring in high-risk patients, thereby reducing complications and lowering costs and length of stay.

Geographical expansion is key to LiDCO's capacity to address the worldwide opportunity for sales of our technology. LiDCO has made recent investments in the USA, Europe and the Middle East to support this initiative. Our sales and distribution model has three elements:

· Direct sales into hospitals in the UK and USA.

· Outside of our two direct markets, we sell via distribution partners. Our depth of margin on disposable sales allows us to attract quality specialist distribution partners on an exclusive and non-exclusive basis, plus where necessary we sometimes work through master distribution organisations to manage our distributors on our behalf.

· Our core technologies are patented and we see licensing our technology as another way to access the market. We have licensed our algorithm on a non-exclusive basis to a major corporate partner in the USA in return for future royalty payments.

Measuring our performance: KPIs

The following KPIs are some of the indicators used by management to measure performance during the year:

During the year the Group expanded its commercial reach, the KPIs reflect this ahead of seeing the full impact of the investment. A number of the KPIs were influenced by the launch of the new monitoring platform with the differentiated HUP pricing model, the short-term impact of having no sales to China and the strong sales performance in the UK.

Business objectives

Our objective is to increase our geographical presence beyond our market leading position in our home UK market. The Directors believe that there are multiple opportunities in the growing hemodynamic monitoring market, with the largest opportunity being in the USA. To realise accelerated revenue growth we have significantly invested in our commercial operations.

We have expanded our presence in the USA and UK as well as Europe and the Middle East in the distribution territories. Due to the high margins of our offering the Board believes that this strategy will result in stronger profitability in the mid-term.

Our corporate collaborations are an important element of our business. There are a number of these in place, ranging from OEM module licensing-in (Medtronic and CNSystems), distribution provisions (Merit Medical) through to royalty-based licensing-out arrangements (ICU Medical).

The Directors believe that our recent new product launches will enable us to maintain our technology leadership position and our innovative High Usage license model differentiates us further. Further product improvements will look to add incremental features that improve clinical decision making as well as catering for both the expert and novice user. At the foundation of our product development strategy is the objective of enabling our technology to be used along every step of the emergency or elective patient's care pathway.

We will continue to focus on improving our promotional activities, with an increased digital presence as we recognise our customers rely on this for large parts of purchasing or post-purchase support. New websites and on-line services are continuing to be developed that the Board believes will provide improved education for users and highlight the application of our technology in multiple clinical settings. We continue to target specific high risk surgery and critical care patient care pathways with our promotional activities to maximise our return on the greatest opportunities in our direct markets of UK and USA.

CONSOLIDATED comprehensive INCOME STATEMENT

For the year ended 31 January 2018

CONSOLIDATED Balance Sheet

At 31 January 2018

consolidated Cash flow Statement

For the year ended 31 January 2018

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

For the year ended 31 January 2018

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. NATURE OF THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the principle accounting policies adopted by the Group, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Financial Reporting Interpretations (IFRIC) as adopted by the EU and those parts of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies reporting under and were approved by the Board on 9 April 2018. They are presented in sterling, which is the functional currency of the parent company and the Group. The preparation of financial statements in accordance with IFRS requires the use of estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Although these estimates are based on management's best knowledge of current events and actions, actual results may ultimately differ from those estimates.

These results are audited, however the financial information does not constitute statutory accounts as defined under section 434 of the Companies Act 2006. The financial information for the year ended 31 January 2017 has been derived from the Group's statutory accounts for that year, as filed with the Registrar of Companies. The auditors' report on the statutory accounts for the year ended 31 January 2017 was unqualified and did not contain statements under section 498 of the Companies Act 2006.

The accounting policies used in completing this financial information have been consistently applied in all periods shown. These accounting policies are detailed in the Group's financial statements for the year ended 31 January 2018 which can be found on the Group's website.

2. EARNINGS PER SHARE

The earnings per share is calculated by dividing the earnings attributable to ordinary shareholders by the weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue during the year. The basic earnings per share for the year is based on a loss after tax of £2,093,000 (2017: profit £187,000) and weighted average number of shares in issue of 244,174,908 (2017: 198,969,429). The diluted earnings per share is based on the above calculation adjusted to allow for the issue of shares on the assumed conversion of all dilutive options. Share options are regarded as dilutive when, and only when, their conversion would decrease earnings or increase the loss per share. The diluted earnings per share is based upon a weighted average number of shares of 244,174,908.

3. DISTRIBUTION

Copies of this statement will be available for collection free of charge from the Company's registered office at 16 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ. An electronic version of this announcement and the Annual report and accounts will be available today on the Company's website, www.lidco.com. Copies of the Annual report and accounts will be posted to shareholders later this month together with the notice of the Annual General Meeting.