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The following is a round-up of earnings and trading updates by London-listed companies, issued on Thursday and not separately reported by Alliance News: ---------- GETECH Group PLC - Leeds, England-based geo-energy and green hydrogen location company - Pretax loss narrows to £616,000 in 2025 from £1.6 million the year prior as revenue climbs to £5.0 million from £4.7 million. Diluted losses per share are 0.42 pence compared to 1.66p. Revenue includes annualised recurring revenue of £2.8 million, down on-year from £2.9 million, reflecting high customer retention, with management’s primary focus for 2026 on growing ARR to cover the cost base. Annualised cost base reduces by £1.0 million, with savings fully realised from mid2025. Order book of £3.8 million at year-end versus £4.1 million a year ago, reflects strong conversion of contracted work to revenue during the year, with £2.5 million expected to unwind into revenue in 2026, providing good future revenue visibility. Says trading momentum has carried into 2026, with unaudited first quarter revenue 5% ahead yearonyear. ---------- IG Design Group PLC - Buckinghamshire, England-based celebration products and gift packaging firm - Says the group has continued to experience good trading momentum since its February trading statement. As a result, expects financial 2026 will be ahead of market consensus and board expectations. Expects to report full-year revenue of $292 million and adjusted operating profit of $12.8 million, representing an adjusted operating margin of 4.4%, and delivering adjusted profit before tax of $11.5 million. Cash significantly exceeds expectations with year-end net cash of $72 million. Notes current guidance is for revenue at $280-285 million, adjusted operating margin at 4% and cash at $55-60 million. Also announces up to £5.3 million acquisition of Glenart SA, a South African manufacturer within the group’s ‘Celebrate’ category, with a particular strength in crackers. The acquisition is financed from working capital and expected to be earnings-enhancing. ---------- Image Scan Holdings PLC - Leicestershire, England-based provider of X-ray screening systems - Swings to pretax profit of £75,000 in the six months to March from a loss of £422,000 the year prior. Revenue balloons to £1.3 million from £350,000. Earnings per share are 0.06p versus LPS of 0.30p. Enters the second half of FY26 in a stronger position than at the same point last year, supported by improved trading momentum, a solid order book and an opportunity pipeline across multiple geographies, it says. ---------- ASA International Group PLC - international microfinance firm - Reports a solid start to 2026, with gross outstanding loan portfolio of $583.2 million at March 31, 25% higher than a year ago. Chief Executive Rob Keijsers says: ‘Q1 2026 demonstrates the underlying strength and discipline of ASA International’s platform. Across our continuing operating platform, we delivered solid portfolio performance alongside continued client growth across key markets, with particularly strong momentum in Pakistan and East Africa. Portfolio quality remains robust.’ ---------- Franchise Brands PLC - Macclesfield, England-based owner of franchise brands - Reports record System sales in the first quarter, rising 4% compared to 2% in 2025. All business-to-business divisions returned to growth, supported by a ‘strong’ performance in the US and some ‘encouraging’ signs of recovery in Europe. As a result, says it is well positioned for a full-year performance within the current range of analysts’ forecasts. Puts current market expectations of adjusted Ebitda for 2026 at between £35.9 million to £38.0 million. ---------- NCC Group PLC - Manchester, England-based cybersecurity company - Expects revenue on a constant currency basis to have increased around 5.0% on-year to £151.3 million in the six months to March. Cyber revenue increases by 5.9% to £118.4 million, Escode revenue grows 1.9% to £32.9 million. Group gross margins are expected to increase by 2.7 percentage points to 45.9%, Ebitda by 28% to £23.5 million. Sees FY adjusted Ebitda in line with the board’s expectations. ---------- Synthomer PLC - London-based developer of polymer chemicals - Pretax loss mounts to £120.2 million in 2025 from £87.3 million the year before. Revenue drops 10% to £1.74 billion from £1.93 billion, or by 9.9% at constant currency. Basic losses per share are 96.0 pence compared to 44.4p in 2024. Net debt declines to £575.0 million from £597.0 million. Says results in line with expectations reflecting margin and net debt progress, driven by cost savings and strategy delivery. First quarter 2026 trading is in line with expectations and ahead on-year, expects ‘robust’ second quarter. ---------- Kelso Group Holdings PLC - investor in London-listed companies - Pretax loss widens to £846,774 in 2025 from £553,329 in 2024. Net asset value per share declines to 2.3 pence at December 31 from 2.4p the year before, but at April 24 is higher at 2.6p. Over the 12 months to December, three out of four of Kelso’s active stocks saw an increase in share price, averaging 24%, it says. Selkirk Group PLC, the AIM investing shell and representing 13% of NAV as of December 31, 2025, detracted from performance as its share price fell 35%. ‘The board is pleased with a satisfactory start to 2026 and believes the group has significant further potential for growth. Kelso continues to build a differentiated, concentrated vehicle focused on undervalued investments in the UK market,’ Chair Nigel Knowles says. ---------- Copyright 2026 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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