Today's UK company results

BSY British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC three months to September 30 2004
Total revenue - 940 mln stg vs 850 mln
Pretax profit before goodwill - 176 mln stg vs 131 mln
Pretax profit - 147 mln stg vs 127 mln
Profit after tax before goodwill - 122 mln stg vs 94 mln
Profit after tax - 93 mln stg vs 90 mln
EBITDA - 214 mln stg vs 175 mln
Operating profit before goodwill - 190 mln stg vs 151 mln
Operating profit - 161 mln stg vs 122 mln
EPS before exceptionals and goodwill - 6.3 pence vs 4.8
EPS - 4.8 pence vs 4.6

HRN Hornby PLC six months to September 30 2004
Sales - 18.97 mln stg vs 15.79 mln
Pretax profit - 2.63 mln stg vs 2.21 mln
EPS - 4.77 pence vs 4.08
Interim div - 2.0 pence vs 1.6 pay 28/01/05; books close 07/01/04

NTA Northacre PLC the six months to August 31 2004
Sales - 1.31 mln stg vs 1.81 mln
Pretax loss before goodwill - 929,000 stg vs loss 822,000
Pretax loss - 1.56 mln stg vs loss 1.21 mln
Loss per share - 6.87 pence vs LPS 5.32

RPP Ringprop PLC year to September 30 2004 vs 14 months to September 30 2003
Pretax loss - 1.14 mln stg vs loss 907,000
Group operating loss - 1.19 mln stg vs loss 964,000
Loss per share - 19.1 pence vs LPS 21.0

SJE James Smith Estates PLC six months to September 24 2004
Sales - 6.25 mln stg vs 4.06 mln
Pretax profit - 3.18 mln stg vs 3.29 mln
EPS - 13.0 pence vs 11.9
NAV - 422.0 pence, up 2.5 pct
Interim div - 2.85 pence vs 2.7 pay 10/01/04; books close 03/12/04

A quick good morning all. Hoping for a good end to the week :-)

Comment in the Times that the Chancellor is considering cutting CGT to encourage people back to the stock market!

About time to,,can you ask him if he will let me off the tax,i can see the next band on the horizon.

Morning all,

Cutting CGT? That won't make that much of a difference. What he should cut
(or should I say is remove) is stamp duty on share purchases.
That would have a bigger impact on bring people back into the stock market!

Maybe if he gave us some good stock picks that would be even better?

Would we trust them though GD?!

perhaps not jj.

The following is a compilation of UK company results due out in the two weeks to Nov 26.

MONDAY NOV 15
Chrysalis Group PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts year to August pretax profit 11.9 mln stg vs 8.4 mln; total dividend 0.7 pence, unchanged.

Luminar PLC six months to August pretax profit 24.5-27.0 mln stg vs 27.0 mln; interim dividend 4.0 pence, up 10 pct.

Thus PLC six months to September EBITDA 17-18 mln stg vs 20.6 mln.

TUESDAY NOV 16
Burberry Group PLC six months to September EBITA 75 mln stg vs 55.1 mln.

Business Post Group PLC. Arbuthnot Securities forecasts six months to September pretax profit 9.0 mln stg vs 8.1 mln; interim dividend 6.4 pence vs 5.9.

Emap PLC. Morgan Stanley forecasts six months to September EBITDA 104.5 mln stg vs 103.0 mln; pretax profit 94.5 mln stg.

Northern Foods PLC. Williams de Broe forecasts six months to October pretax profit before exceptionals 32.0 mln stg vs 32.5 mln; interim dividend 3.37 pence vs 3.3.

Vodafone Group PLC six months to September EBITDA 6.4 bln stg vs 6.6 bln; pretax profit 5.2 bln vs 5.4 bln; interim dividend 50-100 pct higher than 0.9535 pence last year.

VT Group PLC. Williams de Broe forecasts six months to September pretax profit 21.5 mln stg vs 20.0 mln; interim dividend 2.75 pence, up 7 pct.

WEDNESDAY NOV 17
GUS PLC six months to September pretax profit before exceptionals and goodwill 395-401 mln stg vs 354 mln; interim dividend 8.7 pence vs 8.0.

mmO2 PLC six months to September EBITDA 818 mln stg vs 621 mln; pretax profit 245 mln stg.

J Sainsbury PLC six months to September underlying pretax profit 125-135 mln stg vs 366 mln; interim dividend 2.15 pence vs 4.30.

THURSDAY NOV 18
BOC PLC fourth quarter to September pretax profit before exceptionals 118-135.8 mln stg vs 112.4 mln; year to September 484-5-1 mln stg vs 418.9 mln.

National Grid Transco PLC. Williams de Broe forecasts clean pretax profit 390-391 mln stg vs restated 373 mln.

SABMiller PLC six months to September pretax profit before exceptionals 995 mln usd vs 801 mln; EBITA 1 bln usd vs 889 mln; interim dividend 9.0 cents vs from 7.5.

MONDAY NOV 22
Cambridge Antibody Technology Group PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts year to September pretax loss 36.1 mln stg vs 41.8 mln.

TUESDAY NOV 23
Tribal Group PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts six months to September pretax profit 6.9 mln stg vs 7.0 mln; interim dividend 1.0 pence, unchanged.

WEDNESDAY NOV 24
Speedy Hire PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts six months to September pretax profit 9.0 mln stg vs 11.0 mln.

THURSDAY NOV 25
Capital Radio PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts year to September pretax profit 22.4 mln stg vs 22.8 mln; total dividend 18.5 pence, unchanged.