London Stock Exchange Group 1st Half Pretax Profit Rose, Expects to Hit 2021 Financial Targets -- Update
August 06 2021 - 2:05AM
Dow Jones News
By Sabela Ojea
London Stock Exchange Group PLC reported Friday a nearly doubled
pretax profit for the first half of 2021 and said that even though
costs will increase in the second half as it continues integrating
the acquisition of Refinitiv, it will still meet its financial
targets.
The stock-exchange and financial-information company posted a
pretax profit of 510 million pounds ($710.3 million) compared with
GBP262 million for the same period a year earlier.
Revenue rose to GBP2.99 billion from GBP877 million for the
year-earlier period.
The board declared an interim dividend of 25.0 pence a share, up
from 23.3 pence a share for the same period in 2020.
Regarding the integration of Refinitiv, London Stock Exchange
Group said it booked GBP77 million of run-rate cost synergies in
the period, and that it has increased its full-year guidance for
run-rate cost synergy delivery to GBP125 million from GBP88
million.
The London-listed company said it still expects to meet its
full-year guidance of mid-single-digit growth, and around 5% on a
constant-currency basis.
"We...are highly focused on continued execution to maintain the
good momentum into the second half and future years. We are
executing on a detailed integration and transformation plan to
create a simplified and scalable business, and we are ahead of
plan," the London-listed company said.
Write to Sabela Ojea at sabela.ojea@wsj.com; @sabelaojeaguix
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