NCC Group is a global information assurance specialist providing organisations worldwide with expert escrow, verification, security consulting, website performance, software testing and domain services.

Through an unrivalled range of services, we provide organisations across the world with freedom from doubt that their most important assets are protected and operating as they should be at all times.

We are passionate about changing the shape of the internet and making it a safer place to be.

As the cyber arms race and technology revolution continue to outpace the ability of organisations to cope with the plethora of security, performance and availability issues, we are best placed to help organisations to manage the risk and limit the threat.

With our knowledge, experience, capability and global footprint we are committed to ensuring that organisations have access to a total information assurance solution that works for them.

Our complementary service areas provide comprehensive end-to-end information assurance for over 15,000 organisations worldwide.

We have 18 locations across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia



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Final Results
RNS
RNS Number : 3422L
NCC Group PLC
18 July 2017
 
18 July 2017
NCC Group plc
NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, "NCC" or "the Group"), the independent global cyber security and risk mitigation expert, has reported its full year results for the 12 months to 31 May 2017 and provides an update on the Strategic Review.
Year end results
·      Group revenue up 17% to £244.5m (2016: £209.1m), organic growth 3% excluding impact of FX and acquisitions
·      Operating loss £53.4m (2016: profit £11.4m)
·      Adjusted* EBIT £27.5m (2016: £39.7m)
·      Individually significant charges of £71.0m, including intangible asset write downs of £62.0m
·      Adjusted* EBITDA £36.2m (2016: £45.0m), in line with revised expectations
·      Adjusted* basic earnings per share 6.7p (2016: 11.8p)
·      Basic loss per share 20.4p (2016: earnings 2.5p)
·      Net debt reduced to £43.7m from half year level of £48.8m
·      Total dividend maintained at 4.65p per share with final dividend of 3.15p per share
·      Completed two small US based bolt-ons
·      Significant changes to the Board
 
Strategic Review
·      Markets and customer views of NCC services continue to be positive
·      NCC scores highly against the most important key customer purchasing criteria
·      Escrow remains an attractive business and stabilises the Group
·      Assurance focus on cyber security
o   Web Performance and Software Testing businesses to be sold
·      Business needs better internal organisation - changes to operating model underway
Chris Stone, Executive Chairman, comments:
"Our strategic review has identified the business's unique opportunity - leading positions in growing global markets, customers who value us and our exceptionally skilled workforce. But, we need to change how we organise ourselves and improve our internal business processes.
"The last financial year was very challenging, with the business performance falling well short of original expectations, as well as outgrowing some of our business processes and controls.
 
"However, and more importantly, it is clear that the business has a number of notable strengths. We still enjoy significant organic growth in our core segments and have a strong balance sheet. Furthermore, in a constantly evolving and complex market, our unique skills and capabilities are recognised by our customers as putting us at the forefront of the market.
"When we have successfully managed our way through this transitional period, improved our organisation and how we go to market, we see significant upside opportunities and material value creation.
"Overall, the Board's expectations for adjusted EBIT in 2018 are unchanged with its confidence in our prospects reflected in the recommendation to maintain the dividend at the current level."

Full Year Results
RNS
RNS Number : 8473U
NCC Group PLC
17 July 2018

17 July 2018
NCC Group plc
NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, "NCC" or "the Group"), the independent global cyber security and risk mitigation expert, has reported its full year results for the 12 months to 31 May 2018.
Year end results[1]
· Group revenue from continuing operations grew by 8.3% to £233.2m (2017: £215.3m), Adjusted organic growth*[2] was 11.8%
· Group Gross Margin (GM%) gains of 4.9% pts with 5.3% pts in Assurance driven by improved utilisation of professional consultancy staff
· Adjusted*[3] EBITDA from continuing operations up 29% to £42.5m (2017: £33.0m)
· Adjusted* EBIT from continuing operations grew 22% to £31.0m (2017: £25.5m)
· Profit before tax recovered to £11.9m (2017: loss £44.8m)
· Adjusted* basic earnings per share 8.3p (2017: 6.2p), adjusted effective tax rate of 22.4%
· Net debt*[4] reduced to £27.8m (2017: £43.7m)
· Total dividend maintained at 4.65p per share with final dividend proposed of 3.15p per share
Strategic and Operational highlights
· Good progress made on the implementation of the strategic review, new initiatives in place to broaden and deepen the strategic plan
· Transformation programme launched under the brand 'Securing Growth Together' to invest £3.0m - £4.0m p.a. for the next two years. EBIT margin gains of c.1% p.a. targeted in the same period
· Organisational restructure completed around geographical units and customer segments
· Completed portfolio rationalisation with sales of Web Performance and Software Testing
· Significant changes to the Board and Executive management team
· Initiatives now underway to develop skills and capabilities as well as deepening industry specialisms and alignment
Chris Stone, Chairman, comments:
"We have made good progress against the strategic goals that we set for ourselves at the start of the year. The business has been successfully stabilised following a period of volatility. We have reorganised our senior management teams to improve our go-to market strategy. We have also maintained double digit organic* growth in our Assurance division, improved our Gross Margin ratio and completed the divestment of the two business units identified as non-core in the Strategic Review.
While much remains to be done, I am confident that the building blocks for long term sustainable improvement in business performance and shareholder returns are starting to be put in place.
The combination of continuing growth and improving margins in the two operating divisions will deliver year on year improvements in adjusted EBIT in 2019 while also allowing us to make considered and targeted investments to support the business transformation programme. Overall the Board's expectations for Adjusted EBIT in 2019 remain unchanged."
[1] The footnotes below refer to the use of Alternative Performance Measures (APMs). These terms and their calculations are explained in note 3. Throughout this document, we indicate APMs with a *.
[2] Organic growth excludes the impact of FX, acquisitions and the planned cut in third party product re-sales in the UK.
[3] Adjusted figures exclude the impact of Individually Significant Items, amortisation of acquired intangibles, share based payments, profit or loss on disposal of subsidiaries, the unwind of discount on acquisition consideration and any associated tax on these items.
[4] Net debt is calculated as total borrowings less cash and cash equivalents.
Adam Palser, Chief Executive Officer, comments:
"The Group has excellent foundations on which to build a world leading cyber security and risk mitigation business. We are working to broaden and deepen the strategic plan developed in the early part of the year, its core findings remain robust and relevant and it is now being expanded with our 'Securing Growth Together' transformation programme.
Our markets remain buoyant, our high quality customer base continues to see us providing value added technical expertise and our staff remain committed to building a genuinely differentiated global cyber security and business continuity group of companies."
A briefing for analysts will be held at 9:00am at the offices of Maitland, 3 HKX Building, Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG. The briefing will also be webcast live and can be accessed via this link:

10:20 27/07/2018
Broker Forecast - Berenberg issues a broker note on NCC Group PLC
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