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Severfield-Rowen thinks big

Severfield-Rowen (SFR) – Finals PTP: £42.9m (£30.3m) Divi: 35.74p (25.64p) The shares have more than halved in the past year, partly because of the company being too downbeat last time round. Last week, directors stressed strong prospects backed by record orders, up from... READ MORE >>

Globo disappoints

Globo (GBO:AIM) – Finals PTP: €2.1m (€1.0m) Divi: n/a... READ MORE >>

St Ives fights it out

St Ives (SIV) – Interims PTP: £12.5m (£10.7m) Divi: 5p (5p) The printer is still battling on. It continues to win more short-run magazine contracts, typically publications which require less than 50,000 copies per print run. It is also reporting a steady increase in books, but ... READ MORE >>

Eatonfield finds opportunities in a crunch

Eatonfield (EFD:AIM) – Interims PTP: £2.3m (£0.3m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The credit crisis did little to get in the way of Eatonfield’s interim results, with revenue up 71% at £5.8 million and pre-tax profits rising from £0.3 million to £2.3 million. The company... READ MORE >>

Strong growth blooming great for Plant Health Care

Plant Health Care (PHC:AIM) – Finals PTP: -$5.4m (-$2.9m) Divi: n/a (n/a) Losses widened on the back of significant product investment as well as the costs associated with the first full year of operation in the US Agriculture market. But there was an ample supply of good news, with ... READ MORE >>

Good news from Infonic

Infonic (IFNC:AIM) – Finals PTP: -£1.96m (-£11.66m) Divi: n/a... READ MORE >>

Bloomsbury’s life after Potter

Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY) – Finals PTP: £17.9m (£5.2m) Divi: 3.3p (3p) With 2007 being the year of the last Harry Potter book release most were expecting a bumper uplift in pre-tax profits at the publishing company, which duly obliged with a 244% rise to £17.9... READ MORE >>

Moss Bros not suited for trading decline

Moss Bros (MOSB) – Finals PTP: £0.2m (-£3.4m) Divi: 0.5p (1.8p) During the year the group issued three profit warnings mirroring the decline in consumer confidence. Apart from poor underlying trading Moss Bros suffered property losses of £1.2 million. Although trading... READ MORE >>

Cairn faces a struggle in Rajasthan

Cairn Energy (CNE) – Finals PTP: £773.64m (-£46.78m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The difficulties Cairn is facing in developing the massive oilfields in Rajasthan are not altogether surprising. It is a massive development, which requires huge levels of capital investment, and... READ MORE >>

Woolies stays down

Woolworths (WLW) – Finals PTP: £15m (£7.3m) Divi: 0.6p... READ MORE >>

YouGov revenues rocket

YouGov (YOU:AIM) – Interims PTP: £3m (£2.3m) Divi: n/a... READ MORE >>

Alexon cuts to the quick

Alexon (AXN) – Finals PTP: £12m (£10.5m) Divi: 9p (9p) A 5.6% drop in underlying sales was more than offset by a strong improvement in operating margins. The sales decline was especially marked in Bay Trading. In addition the company was able to sell its loss-making menswear... READ MORE >>

Mouchel’s new frontiers

Mouchel (MCHL) – Interims PTP: £9.3m (£13.6m) Divi: 1.85p... READ MORE >>

SPI hots up

SPI Lasers (SPIL:AIM) – Finals PTP: -£12.7m (-£11.3m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The maker of optical fibre lasers concluded a tough 2007 in an upbeat mood, after two profit warnings last year saw the shares take a battering, falling from the 253p high in July last year to the current... READ MORE >>

Barr keeps its fizz

Barr (AG) (BAG) – Finals PTP: £21.3m (£19.1m) Divi: 39p... READ MORE >>

Another piece in CAP-XX’s electronic jigsaw

CAP-XX (CPX:AIM) - Finals PTP: -A$4.46m (-AS$4.70m) Divi: n/a... READ MORE >>

Strength in diversity for Air Partner

Air Partner (AIP) – Interims PTP: £3.9m (£3.5m) Divi: 7.4p (6.7p) Despite a deterioration in the global economic market, the company successfully posted a 12% hike in taxable profits to £3.9 million and a 21% increase in sales to £109.4 million. Chief executive David... READ MORE >>

Coolabi makes good viewing

Coolabi (COO:AIM) – Interims PTP: -£0.5m (-£0.3m) Divi: n/a (n/a) Losses widened at the small media company but management is still optimistic about the current year after securing a commission for BBC’s Cbeebies channel. Its May 2007 acquisition of the Purple Ronnie... READ MORE >>

Planning approval encourages Portland

Portland Gas (PTG:AIM) – Interims PTP: -£0.8m (n/a) Divi: n/a... READ MORE >>

Plexus wells up

Plexus Holding (POS:AIM) – Interims PTP: £1.29m (£0.17m) Divi: n/a... READ MORE >>