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Buys keep Jelf upbeat

Jelf (JLF:AIM) – Finals PTP: £2.52m (£2.07m) Divi: n/a (n/a) Turnover at the insurance, health care and employee benefits broker increased by 62% to £40.6 million, helped by the nine acquisitions made in the year to the end of September. Organic sales growth was 16% thanks... READ MORE >>

Regent plumbs the depths

Regent Inns (REG) – Interims PTP: £1.2m (£3.6m) Divi: n/a (n/a) Around £115 million has been wiped off the leisure operator in the past nine months, representing a 85% drop in its share price. Like-for-like sales fell 3.8% in 2007. Shareholders are denied a dividend for the ... READ MORE >>

The only way is up for BP

BP (BP.) – Finals PTP: £15,744.9m (£17,644.8m) Divi: 6.81p... READ MORE >>

Myhome looks shaky

Myhome International (MYH:AIM) – Finals PTP: £1.46m (£0.7m) Divi: n/a... READ MORE >>

Recovery continues for Smith & Nephew

Smith & Nephew (SN.) – Finals PTP: $469m ($550m) Divi: 7.4c... READ MORE >>

ARM gets bent out of shape

ARM Holdings (ARM) – Finals PTP: £48.2m (£57.0m) Divi: 2p (1p) Management may have doubled the dividend payout to 2p, but this was of little consolation to investors as shares in the chip design expert crashed to their lowest level in over three years, following a... READ MORE >>

Monitise bemoans lack of progress

Monitise (MONI:AIM) – Interims PTP: -£7.0m (-£3.3m) Divi: n/a (n/a) Strong progress in the USA, a potentially ground-breaking deal with VISA and further functionality developments all mean the mobile banking and payments technology expert is meeting its strategic goals. But... READ MORE >>

Brazil keeps BG in clover

BG (BG.) – Finals PTP: £3,039m (£3,285m) Divi: 9.36p (7.2p) The numbers for 2007 were ahead of market expectations – which was particularly pleasing given that both BP (BP.) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB) underwhelmed. Much of the interest will be reserved for Brazil... READ MORE >>

Unilever trims the fat

Unilever (ULVR) – Finals PTP: £3,763m (£3,419m) Divi: 51.1p (47.7p) The food colossus managed to fight off rising commodity prices last year, unlike so many other manufacturers lately, posting strong underlying sales growth of 5.5% that more than offsets the decline of 50... READ MORE >>

BskyB’s pretty picture slightly marred by ITV issues

BskyB (BSY) – Interims PTP: -£36m (£356m) Divi: 7.1p (6.6p) Results from the media giant were well received by the market after it gave an upbeat outlook and said that woes about consumer spending will not dent its long-term target of reaching ten million customers by... READ MORE >>

Improvements come to campaigning Mediwatch

Mediwatch (MDW:AIM) – Finals PTP: -£0.8m (-£1.4m) Divi: n/a (n/a) Losses narrowed and revenues increased thanks to an extensive sales and marketing campaign following the integration of new products acquired from Medtronic. The contribution of the US sales, marketing and... READ MORE >>

Amino’s steady progress

Amino Technologies (AMO:AIM) – Finals PTP: £1.4m (-£1.6m) Divi: n/a... READ MORE >>

Clean bill of health for Manpower

Manpower Software (MNS:AIM) – Interims PTP: £0.61m (£0.55m) Divi: n/a (n/a) A strategy laid down two years ago has begun to reap rich rewards at the provider of workforce planning, scheduling and management software, where a slew of contract wins at the NHS drove the top line... READ MORE >>