NEX Group Fiscal Year 2018 Profit Rises Ahead of CME Takeover
May 22 2018 - 5:43AM
Dow Jones News
By Adam Clark
NEX Group PLC (NXG.LN) said on Tuesday that its profit rose
slightly in financial 2018, as it prepares for its takeover by CME
Group Inc. (CME).
The financial markets technology company said it made a pretax
profit of 125 million pounds ($167.9 million) for its year ended
March 31, compared with GBP122 million the prior year.
Trading profit excluding one-off items increased 9% to GBP160
million, as statutory profit was weighed down by restructuring
costs.
Revenue rose 9% to GBP591 million. Revenue from NEX Markets, its
trading platform arm, increased 6% to GBP326 million in constant
currency. NEX Optimisation, which offers risk and post-trade
services, increased revenue by 7% to GBP260 million.
NEX said it has identified an additional GBP10 million of
annualized cost savings since the first half of financial 2018,
bringing its total run-rate savings to an annualized GBP50 million.
The one-off cost of achieving the cost cuts will be GBP19 million,
NEX said.
NEX recommended a final dividend per share of 7.65 pence. This
brings its full-year dividend to 11.15 pence a share, down from
38.5 pence the prior year.
Last Friday, NEX shareholders voted to approve CME's $5.3
billion takeover offer in a cash-and-shares deal. The deal is
expected to be completed in the second half of 2018.
Write to Adam Clark at adam.clark@dowjones.com;
@AdamDowJones
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