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The following is a round-up of earnings and trading updates by London-listed companies, issued on Tuesday and not separately reported by Alliance News: ---------- Personal Group Holdings PLC - Milton Keynes-based employee benefits and services provider - Reports a rise in half-year earnings and trading in the third quarter is in line with management expectations so far. Pretax profit in the six months to June 30 increases 68% to £3.8 million from £2.3 million a year prior. Revenue improves 11% to £23.3 million from £21.0 million. ‘Personal Group continues to make good progress, with the refined strategy put in place at the end of 2024 delivering another strong set of results, with Insurance sales going from strength to strength, growing levels of ARR and healthy cash generation to support a strong balance sheet. New Insurance wins and partnerships in the first half of the year have expanded our addressable customer base and laid the foundations for continued growth,’ Chief Executive Officer Paula Constant says. Trading so far in the third quarter has ‘remained robust and in line with management’s expectations to date’. Personal Group lifts interim dividend by 26% on-year to 8.2p. It alters its payout policy, now expecting to pay ‘dividends equivalent to approximately one times basic earnings per share for the full year’. ---------- Pennant International Group PLC - Cheltenham, England-based provider of systems support, technical services and training with focus on defence sector - Pretax loss in six months to June 30 widens to £2.2 million from £419,000. Revenue falls 39% to £4.5 million from £7.4 million. ‘While a difficult procurement environment is causing short-term challenges, we are confident that, by concentrating on higher margin software and related services segments, we can achieve increasing and sustainable recurring and repeatable revenues, and profitability growth,’ Chair Ian Dighe says. ---------- Porvair PLC - Norfolk, England-based environmental and specialist filtration technology firm - It has ‘continued to trade satisfactorily in the third quarter’ which ended on August 31. ‘Market trends remain consistent with those set out at the half year. We continue to monitor the macro-economic uncertainty and note that the group’s manufacturing footprint mainly serves local customers. The group’s fundamental demand drivers have not changed and Porvair remains well positioned to take advantage of tightening environmental regulation; the growth of analytical science; the need for clean water; the development of carbon-efficient transportation; the replacement of plastic and steel by aluminium; and the drive for manufacturing process quality and efficiency,’ it adds. ---------- Brickability PLC - Bridgend, Wales-based construction materials distributor - Trading in first five months of financial year are ‘in line with the board’s expectations’. Expectations for adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation in the year ending March 31 are unchanged. Chair John Richards notes ‘challenging market conditions, predominantly driven by a slow pace of recovery in housing starts and repair, maintenance, and improvement together with the delays in approvals by the building safety regulator’. ---------- Touchstar PLC - supplier of mobile data computing solutions and managed services to a variety of industrial sectors - Swings to pretax loss of £176,000 in first six months of 2025, from profit of £254,000 a year prior. Revenue is largely unchanged at £3.4 million. Its interim dividend is raised to 1.75p per share from 1.50p. ‘The board expects a stronger second half, with full-year performance anticipated to be in line with expectations. Demand for our products and services continues to be strong. That said, much remains to be done. Transformation is rarely linear; there will be challenges along the way. Nevertheless, we are making strong progress, and I remain optimistic for the future of the company,’ Chair Ian Martin says. Touchstar is ‘repositioning how the business is presented and marketed’. ‘The goal is to establish Touchstar as the partner of choice to all depots, warehouses and retailers, a market opportunity many times greater than our historic roots. The company will build on the trust its customers already have in place, broaden its engagement by offering more of the solutions, and leverage its skills and expertise to deliver a one-stop solution,’ it adds. ---------- NWF Group PLC - Cheshire, England-based fuel, food and feed distributor - Leaves outlook for full-year unchanged. The ‘seasonally busier winter months’ are still to come, it says. Trading in the first quarter of the financial year, which kicked off in June has seen lower volumes in the Fuels unit on a like-for-like basis. This is due to ‘lower market demand for both domestic heating oil and commercial fuel’. Foods has benefitted from the restructuring of the cost base undertaken in June and Feeds trading momentum has continued. ---------- Fintel PLC - Huddersfield, England-based provider of fintech and support services - Pretax profit in six months to June 30 improves to £3.8 million, from £3.4 million a year earlier, on revenue which climbs 19% to £42.4 million from £35.7 million. ‘We have also made significant strategic progress, successfully integrating nine acquisitions into two complementary divisions. This transformation marks a pivotal moment for Fintel, enabling us to concentrate resources on our most attractive markets and propositions, while providing a clear framework for innovation and growth as we transition to a software and data-led business built on recurring revenues,’ CEO Matt Timmins says. Fintel lifts its interim dividend by 8.3% to 1.3p from 1.2p. More recent trading has been consistent with the first six months of the financial year and in line with board expectations. ---------- OptiBiotix Health PLC - York, England-based life sciences firm - Pretax loss in six months to June 30 narrows to £1.2 million from £2.8 million a year prior. Revenue doubles to £557,000 from £276,000. ‘The Company delivered strong financial performance in H1 2025, with sales more than doubling compared to H1 2024, supported by improved margins. Equally important is that we are now seeing a growing contribution from our India and USA businesses. We anticipate continued momentum in sales growth with the full year effect of 2024 launches, new and existing partners launching new products in USA and Asia, e-commerce continuing its growth trajectory with launch of products on Amazon India, and annual license revenues from SweetBiotix occurring in H2 2025,’ it adds. ---------- Star Energy Group PLC - onshore energy company - Pretax profit in the six months to June 30 amounts to £4.4 million, swinging from a loss of £4.2 million a year prior, but revenue falls 21% to £18.3 million from £23.2 million. It reports no impairment of development costs, compared to £4.3 million a year prior, aiding its bottom line. ‘We welcome the UK government’s recent recognition of domestic energy’s strategic value, as reflected in policy priorities aimed at reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels, enhancing energy security, and creating new green jobs and economic growth. The mission of Great British Energy similarly champions clean, secure, home-grown energy as a catalyst for job creation and energy independence. Our strategy is closely aligned with these objectives: we manage our oil and gas assets responsibly and efficiently, while reinvesting operating cashflows into making our oil and gas business more resilient and maturing our geothermal opportunities,’ CEO Ross Glover says. ---------- Eagle Eye Solutions Group PLC - London-based provider of software-as-a-service marketing solutions - Reports pretax profit of £3.0 million for year to June 30, jumping from £719,000 the year prior. Revenue improves 1.0% to £48.2 million from £47.7 million. ‘FY25 was a year of strategic progress for Eagle Eye, despite its challenges. We have initiated programmes to reinvigorate organic growth, seen ongoing adoption of our proven AI offerings, and commenced the integration of our technology into the new cloud hosted loyalty management solution of one of the world’s largest enterprise software vendors,’ CEO Tim Mason says. ‘Eagle Eye is now in a very different position to where it was when we started our concerted move towards becoming a global SaaS business a year ago, and we are confident these expanded routes to market and major structural changes will support reinvigorated growth. Whilst we have taken actions in light of the loss of the NRS contract, the scale of the opportunity ahead demands that we remain steadfast in our strategy and continue to invest to drive long-term value creation.’ ---------- Copyright 2025 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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