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RNS Number : 3631I
Personal Group Holdings PLC
21 March 2018
PERSONAL GROUP HOLDINGS PLC
("Personal Group", "Company" or "Group")
Preliminary Results
For the year ended 31 December 2017
Personal Group Holdings Plc, a leading provider of employee
services in the UK, is pleased to announce its Preliminary Results
for the year ended 31 December 2017.
Highlights
Financial
-- Group revenue of GBP45.2m (continuing operations) (2016:
GBP53.6m), impacted by delayed roll out of salary sacrifice
offering to Royal Mail Group and other key customers
-- EBITDA* of GBP10.8m (continuing operations) (2016: GBP11.4m)
-- Dividend increased by 3.2% to 22.7p
-- Balance sheet remains strong with total cash of GBP16.2m
(2016: GBP12.6m) and no debt (2016: nil)
Operational
-- Fifth successive year of record new insurance sales
-- Positioned PG Let's Connect for growth post the impact of the HMRC Salary Sacrifice review
-- 77% growth in SaaS revenue to GBP2.7m (2016: GBP1.5m)
-- 1,400 SMEs with access to Hapi platform through the Sage partnership
Post period end
-- Royal Mail Group launched PG Let's Connect offer in March 2018 as expected
-- In February 2018, PG Let's Connect was appointed to the Crown
Commercial Service Framework, the biggest public procurement
framework in the UK
-- Further record new insurance sales for the first 2 months of 2018
*Adjusted EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, tax,
depreciation, amortisation of intangible assets, goodwill
impairment, share-based expense payments, corporate acquisition
costs, restructuring costs, write back of contingent consideration
and release of tax provision.
A reconciliation from PBT to this adjusted EBITDA can be seen in
note 1.
Commenting, Mark Scanlon, Chief Executive of Personal Group,
said:
"2017 was a strong year across much of the Group's operations,
which is reflected in the EBITDA of GBP10.8m which was marginally
ahead of current market expectations. This performance again
demonstrates the strength of the underlying business and was
despite the transient issue of the HMRC review into Salary
Sacrifice, which delayed sales at our PG Let's Connect business
into 2018. As we continue in the current financial year, the
Company is better placed than ever to realise the significant
opportunity presented by the employee services market, which is
being driven by increasing competition for staff in a tight labour
market and recognition of the commercial value of investing in and
retaining staff. This issue is common to organisations big and
small, public and private all of which we are now very able to
serve."
For more information please contact:
Personal Group
Holdings Plc
Mark Scanlon / Mike +44 (0)1908 605 000
Dugdale
Philip Dennis +44 (0)7947 868 206
(Investor Relations)
Cenkos Securities Plc
Max Hartley / Callum +44 (0)20 7397 8900
Davidson (Nomad)
Russell Kerr (Sales)
Hudson Sandler LLP
Nick Lyon / Sophie +44 (0)20 7796 4133
Lister / Lucy Wollam personalgroup@hudsonsandler.
com
Notes to Editors:
Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH) is a technology enabled
employee services business, working with employers to drive
productivity though better employee engagement and a more motivated
workforce. With over 30 years' experience, the Company provides
employee benefits, serving 550 businesses, reaching over 2 million
employees across the UK.
Personal Group's offer comprises 8,000 in-house and third party
products and services, from c.60 supply lines. In-house services
include employee insurance products (hospital, convalescence plans
and death benefit) and the provision of home technology via salary
sacrifice (iPads, computers, laptops, smart phones and smart TVs).
Third party services include retail discounts, e-payslips, employee
assistance, wellbeing programmes and salary sacrifice cars and
bikes.
The offer is provided via the Company's proprietary technology
platform, Hapi. The platform is intuitive and accessible via web,
tablet and mobile app, driving better engagement, communication and
value recognition. Hapi is flexible and can quickly integrate
additional services, such as existing employee services and partner
platforms. Hapi is a SaaS product.
Through technology and select acquisitions, the Company has
grown its addressable market from 6m to 27m UK employees; including
15.6m SME employees targeted via its partnership with Sage, the
UK's largest software company.
Personal Group's innovative approach to using technology to
deliver its programmes, combined with its face-to-face method of
communicating with employees, makes its offer compelling to blue
chip clients across the UK as a way of attracting, retaining and
motivating employees.
Personal Group has a strong client base across a range of
sectors including passenger transport, healthcare, logistics and
food manufacturing. Clients include: Stagecoach, Four Seasons
Health Care, Priory Group, Spire Healthcare, Bibby, 2 Sisters Food
Group and Young's Seafood.
For further information, please see www.personalgroup.com
Introduction
2017 was a good year for Personal Group with the Company making
solid progress on most of its objectives. We achieved a solid
EBITDA* performance of GBP10.8m, which marginally exceeded current
market expectations. This was despite transient headwinds in our
salary sacrifice business and highlights the strength of the
underlying business. Our insurance business saw another year of
record new sales, with significant growth achieved in our newer
SaaS revenue streams.
The Company's performance is also a reflection of the strength
in its client base. Personal Group acts for over 600 large
employers, many of which are household names, and is seeing
customer growth across the SME and public-sector marketplaces. The
UK is currently experiencing high levels of employment but lower
levels of productivity, demonstrating the importance to employers
of attracting and retaining productive workers with the imperative
of increasing output per head.
Personal Group is delivering on its strategy of evolving from a
benefits provider to an employee services business offering a range
of tangible business solutions to employers and their employees.
With much of the ground work now complete on developing the
Company's broader product range, the focus has increasingly shifted
to delivering the Company's offer across existing and new
clients.
Operations
Our core insurance business performed well, recording a fifth
consecutive year of record new insurance sales. This performance
was driven by improved productivity across the sales team and
investments made in growing the size of the team. These additions,
made predominantly in the second half of the year, served the
company well in 2017 and place it in a strong position for the year
ahead.
Overall insurance revenue declined marginally by 1.6% to
GBP30.7m (2016: GBP31.2m), reflecting the rundown and transfer of
revenues from the sale of the Company's PMI business to AXA and the
decision to absorb the increase in Insurance Premium Tax during the
year.
The focus of the PG Let's Connect salary sacrifice business was
to place it in the best possible position to grow post the legacy
impact of the HMRC review. While the Finance Bill in April provided
clarity, these changes have taken longer than envisaged to work
through the external system and impacted revenues which decreased
to GBP11.3m (2016: GBP20.1m).
Initiatives undertaken included modernising the product offer,
securing the most favourable supplier terms, developing the
marketing and migrating the offer and back end systems onto the
Hapi platform. This latter initiative will both integrate the
businesses and improve efficiencies by providing a simpler customer
journey.
As such, PG Let's Connect entered 2018 with a stronger offer and
a reduced cost base. With our major customer Royal Mail having
launched the offer to its employees after an initial delay, we
believe that this will be an important year of growth for the
business.
The benefits of the previous investment in building our
proprietary technology platform, Hapi, are now being realised. The
Company's SaaS offer via Hapi saw significant growth during the
year with revenue increasing by 77% to GBP2.6m (2016: GBP1.5m).
While still small relative to other parts of the business, we
expect to see this trend continuing this year and beyond.
The growth in SaaS revenue was due to an increase in direct
sales of the Hapi platform, to both existing and new clients, and
the sale of licences to Sage. 2017 also saw the Group secure its
first SaaS only customer where the core insurance offer has yet to
be taken up.
This growth was driven by increasing recognition among employers
of the value of the platform to their business, an expansion of the
product offer within the platform and greater platform
functionality.
The SME offer has continued to see solid progress, with over
1,400 companies now having access to the Hapi platform. This
reflects the extended relationship with Sage in 2017 to a 'land and
expand' strategy, where product bundles provided by Sage to its
payroll clients included a number of Sage Employee Benefits ("SEB")
licences. Ultimately this will also create an opportunity for
Personal Group to sell its insurance products direct to Sage's
client base.
Sage remains a natural channel partner for Personal Group's SME
offer, with access to more than 9 million of the 15.6 million
people employed by SMEs in the UK. The emerging focus now is to
offer SEB to their wider client base, including their accounting
and enterprise division customers, representing nearly their entire
customer base, via a standalone product.
Technology
Technology remains at the core of the Company's products and
during the period we invested in systems to improve efficiency and
enhance the end user experience. In addition to the initiatives
alluded to above, these included the development of the e-vouchers
offer, as well as the integration of Blaze, an automated marketing
tool that is already driving a significant increase in retail
spending through the platform.
Security has always been a key focus of the Group and while the
technology behind the Hapi platform is inherently secure, it has
become an area of growing importance. As such we expanded the team
during the year to improve our performance in this crucial area and
to prepare for the pending implementation of the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Looking ahead, we are in the process of building the next
generation App for the Hapi platform. The updated version is built
on the same technology as our existing platform, creating a more
seamless experience whilst adding efficiencies and future
flexibility.
We are also investing in a system to allow individuals to
maintain their insurance cover should they leave their current
employment. If successful it will have a material effect on
policyholder lapse rates, which in the longer term will support
insurance revenue and profits.
Sales, Marketing & Customer Service
During the year the Company added a further 30 corporate
clients, an increase of 50% on last year when measured by
additional employee count. These wins were mainly across the
transport, logistics and care sectors, where the Group already has
a strong presence but also included other sectors such as retail
and public sector.
The Group made significant inroads into the NHS in 2017, having
won Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust as a client.
The breadth of the offer was a strong differentiating factor in its
decision to work with Personal Group. This work consequently led to
several other introductions to NHS Trusts and in early 2018 PG
Let's Connect was appointed to the Crown Commercial Service
Framework, the biggest public procurement framework in the UK. As
such, we are looking to expand further across the NHS and public
sector in 2018.
With the greater focus on sales and delivery, we invested in the
marketing department during the period, with the aim of further
increasing lead generation for the business development team.
Furthermore, marketing was also focussed to increase emphasis on
sector specialisation; with the aim of nurturing and utilising
sector expertise, with an increased understanding of the client's
business, system and potential concerns. This approach is working
well and we intend to expand it further across the business in
2018.
Quality of service is key to the Company's ability to retain and
attract client employees. Our customer service record is excellent,
with the number of complaints small enough for the executive team
to review each one. Nonetheless, we invested in the Customer
Relations Team during the year to improve our performance.
Market
The Board believes that the market for employee services remains
strong and offers a real opportunity for growth. It is being driven
by several factors, including changes in corporate culture,
increasing pressure in the employment market and a growing
understanding of the commercial value of investing in and retaining
staff.
An employer can make substantial cost savings and efficiencies
through a combination of increased staff retention, reduced hiring
and training costs and increased productivity through a more
engaged and driven workforce.
Tightness in the labour market is being driven by high
employment rates, creating more intense competition for staff. This
competition, combined with the impact of Britain's forthcoming exit
from the European Union, has resulted in a significant drop in net
migration over the last year. With added pressures imposed by
limited corporate and public service budgets for wage growth,
corporates are being driven to compete for staff at a non-wage
level.
Financial Performance
Group revenue for the year from continuing operations was
GBP45.2m (2016: GBP53.6m), reflecting a solid outcome across much
of the Group. The insurance business recorded a further year of
record new sales and SaaS revenue was up 77% year on year, while
the legacy impact of the changes in Salary Sacrifice rules impacted
the top line performance of the PG Let's Connect business.
Group revenue was also impacted by the increase in Insurance
Premium Tax ('IPT') from 10% to 12%, in June 2017, and the full
year impact of the prior year increase from 9.5% to 10%. We again
this year took the decision not to pass the increase on to existing
policy holders.
The Group achieved EBITDA marginally ahead of current market
expectations at GBP10.8m (2016: GBP11.4m). This result reflects the
resilience of the higher margin core insurance business, a strong
performance from new SaaS sales and the decrease in revenue from
the lower margin PG Let's Connect business.
Profit before tax from continuing operations was GBP9.5m for the
year (2016: GBP10.5m).
The Group maintained its progressive dividend policy, paying a
total dividend of 22.7p per share over the year (2016: 22.0p),
representing a 3.2% increase over the prior year.
The Group's balance sheet remains strong, with cash and deposits
of GBP16.2m at the year end (2016: GBP12.6m) and no debt (2016:
nil). The Company's underwriting subsidiary, Personal Assurance Plc
(PA), had a prudent solvency ratio of 263% (unaudited) (2016:
261%), with a surplus over its Solvency Capital Requirement of
GBP7.5m (2016: GBP7.7m).
Outlook
Personal Group has continued to deliver on its strategy and is
today in a uniquely strong position. It has a client offer that is
unrivalled across the industry and has substantially grown the
market it can profitably access. The offer has been developed and
the systems to support that have been built. The focus is now on
delivering that offer across existing and new potential
clients.
The Board is confident that the Company is well placed to
realise the long-term benefits of the sizeable and growing market
opportunity that is emerging for employee services. The foundations
of the business are strong, with the investments made in recent
years building a solid platform for growth, while continuing to
nurture the core insurance business. The Board believes that the
Group is in good shape and we look forward to 2018 with
confidence.
Mark Winlow Mark Scanlon
Non-Executive Chairman Chief Executive
21 March 2018
Consolidated Income Statement
2017 2016
GBP'000 GBP'000
Continuing Operations
Gross premiums written 30,739 31,393
Outward reinsurance premiums (272) (310)
Change in unearned premiums 233 160
Change in reinsurers'
share of unearned premiums (21) (20)
(_________) (_________)
Earned premiums net of
reinsurance 30,679 31,223
Other insurance related
income 391 555
IT salary sacrifice income 11,292 20,069
SaaS income 2,648 1,499
Other non-insurance income 105 122
Investment property 1 59
Investment income 117 93
(_________) (_________)
Revenue 45,233 53,620
(_________) (_________)
Claims incurred (6,780) (7,318)
Insurance operating expenses (13,529) (14,002)
Other insurance related
expenses (244) (712)
IT salary sacrifice expenses (11,034) (18,281)
SaaS costs (2,459) (1,908)
Other non-insurance related
expenses (710) (315)
Share-based payment expenses (192) (222)
Charitable donations (100) (100)
Amortisation of intangible
assets (673) (505)
(___________) (___________)
Expenses (35,721) (43,363)
(___________) (___________)
Operating profit from
continuing operations 9,512 10,257
Release of provisions - 270
Share of loss of equity-accounted
investee net of tax (2) (6)
(_________) (_________)
Profit before tax from
continuing operations 9,510 10,521
Tax (1,486) (1,479)
(_________) (_________)
Profit for the year from
continuing operations 8,024 9,042
Profit/(Loss) from discontinued
operation 238 (1,758)
Profit 8,262 7,284
(_________) (_________)
The profit for the year is attributable to
equity holders of Personal Group Holdings Plc
Earnings per share Pence Pence
Basic 26.9 23.9
Diluted 26.4 23.4
Earnings per share - continuing
operations Pence Pence
Basic 26.1 29.7
Diluted 25.7 29.0
Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income
2017 2016
GBP'000 GBP'000
Profit for the year 8,262 7,284
Items that may be reclassified subsequently to the income statement
Available for sale financial assets:
Valuation changes taken to equity 106 (6)
Reclassification of (gains) and losses on available for sale financial assets on
derecognition (40) 24
Tax on unrealised valuation changes taken to equity (11) (8)
(________) (________)
Total comprehensive income for the year 8,317 7,294
(_________) (_________)
The total comprehensive income for the year is attributable to
equity holders of Personal Group Holdings Plc.
Consolidated Balance Sheet at 31 December 2017
2017 2016
GBP'000 GBP'000
ASSETS
Non-current assets
Goodwill 10,575 10,575
Intangible assets 986 1,478
Property, plant and
equipment 4,747 5,096
Investment property 130 1,070
Equity-accounted investee 638 639
Deferred tax asset - 3
(_________) (_________)
17,076 18,861
(__) (______) (________)
Current assets
Financial assets 4,492 6,137
Trade and other receivables 14,619 20,200
Reinsurance assets 180 310
Inventories 560 428
Cash and cash equivalents 12,641 7,206
(_________) (_________)
32,492 34,281
(___) (______) (_________)
Total assets 49,568 53,142
(__________) (__________)
2017 2016
Note GBP'000 GBP'000
EQUITY
Equity attributable
to equity holders
of Personal Group
Holdings Plc
Share capital 1,540 1,540
Capital redemption
reserve 24 24
Amounts recognised
directly into equity
relates to available
for sale assets 85 30
Other reserve (310) (330)
Profit and loss reserve 32,417 31,061
(_________) (_________)
Total equity 33,756 32,325
(_________) (_________)
LIABILITIES
Non-current liabilities
Deferred tax liabilities 21 -
Current liabilities
Provisions 1,905 1,912
Trade and other payables 10,698 15,426
Insurance contract
liabilities 2,507 3,239
Current tax liabilities 681 240
(_________) (_________)
15,791 20,817
(_________) (_________)
(_________) (_________)
Total liabilities 15,812 20,817
(_________) (_________)
(_________) (_________)
Total equity and liabilities 49,568 53,142
(_________) (_________)
Consolidated Balance Sheet at 31 December 2017
Equity attributable to equity holders of Personal Group Holdings
Plc
Share Capital Available Other Profit Total
capital redemption for reserve and equity
reserve sale loss
financial reserve
assets
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
Balance as at 1
January 2017 1,540 24 30 (330) 31,061 32,325
(________) (______) (______) (______) (________) (________)
Dividends - - - - (6,979) (6,979)
Employee share-based
compensation - - - - 166 166
Proceeds of AESOP*
share sales - - - - 51 51
Cost of AESOP shares
sold - - - 94 (94) -
Cost of AESOP shares
purchased - - - (74) - (74)
(________) (________) (________) (________) (________) (________)
Transactions with
owners - - - 20 (6,856) (6,836)
(________) (________) (________) (________) (________) (________)
Profit for the
year - - - - 8,262 8,262
Deferred tax reserve
movement - - - - (50) (50)
Other comprehensive
income
Available for sale
financial assets:
Change in fair
value of assets
classified as held
for sale - - 106 - - 106
Transfer to income
statement - - (40) - - (40)
Current tax on
unrealised valuation
changes taken
to equity - - (11) - - (11)
(________) (________) (________) (________) (________) (________)
Total comprehensive
income for
the year - - 55 - 8,212 8,267
(________) (_______) (________) (________) (________) (________)
Balance as at 31
December 2017 1,540 24 85 (310) 32,417 33,756
(________) (______) (______) (________) (__________) (_________)
*All Employee Share Option Plan (AESOP)
Equity attributable to equity holders of Personal Group Holdings
Plc
Share Capital Available Other Profit Total
capital redemption for reserve and equity
reserve sale loss
financial reserve
assets
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
Balance as at 1
January 2016 1,518 24 20 (386) 30,687 31,863
(________) (______) (______) (______) (________) (________)
Dividends - - - - (6,697) (6,697)
Employee share-based
compensation - - - - 213 213
Proceeds of AESOP*
share sales - - - - 103 103
Cost of AESOP shares
sold - - - 95 (95) -
Cost of AESOP shares
purchased - - - (39) - (39)
Nominal value of
LTIP** shares issued 22 - - - (22) -
(________) (________) (________) (________) (________) (________)
Transactions with
owners 22 - - 56 (6,498) (6,420)
(________) (________) (________) (________) (________) (________)
Profit for the
year - - - - 7,284 7,284
Deferred tax reserve
movement - - - - (412) (412)
Other comprehensive
income
Available for sale
financial assets:
Change in fair
value of assets
classified as held
for sale - - (6) - - (6)
Transfer to income
statement - - 24 - - 24
Current tax on
unrealised valuation
changes taken to
equity - - (8) - - (8)
(________) (________) (________) (________) (________) (________)
Total comprehensive income
for the year - - 10 - 6,872 6,882
(________) (_______) (________) (________) (________) (________)
Balance as at 31
December 2016 1,540 24 30 (330) 31,061 32,325
(________) (______) (______) (________) (__________) (_________)
*All Employee Share Option Plan (AESOP)
**Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP)
Company and Consolidated Cash Flow Statement
2017 2016
GBP'000 GBP'000
Net cash from operating activities
(see next page) 9,928 6,395
(__________) (__________)
Investing activities
Additions to property, plant
and equipment (120) (828)
Additions to intangible assets (182) (624)
Proceeds from disposal of property,
plant and equipment 25 231
Proceeds from disposal of investment
property 933 -
Purchase of financial assets (195) (139)
Proceeds from disposal of
financial assets 1,995 3,177
Interest received 30 53
Dividends received 23 20
(__________) (__________)
Net cash used in investing
activities 2,509 1,890
(__________) (__________)
Financing activities
Purchase of own shares by
the AESOP (74) (39)
Proceeds from disposal of
own shares by the AESOP 51 66
Dividends paid (6,979) (6,697)
(__________) (__________)
Net cash used in financing
activities (7,002) (6,670)
(__________) (__________)
Net change in cash and cash
equivalents 5,435 1,615
Cash and cash equivalents,
beginning of year 7,206 5,591
Cash and cash equivalents,
end of year 12,641 7,206
(_________) (__________)
Company and Consolidated Cash
Flow Statement 2017 2016
GBP'000 GBP'000
Operating activities
Profit after tax 8,262 7,284
Adjustments for
Depreciation 437 448
Amortisation of intangible
assets 673 505
Loss on disposal of property,
plant and equipment 7 61
Loss on disposal of investment
property 7 -
Realised net investment (profit)
/ loss (101) 17
Interest received (30) (53)
Dividends received (23) (20)
Share of loss of equity-accounted
investee, net of tax 2 6
Share-based payment expenses 192 222
Taxation expense recognised
in income statement 1,543 1,479
Changes in working capital
Trade and other receivables 5,711 1,772
Trade and other payables (5,493) (4,171)
Inventories (132) (38)
Taxes paid (1,127) (1,117)
(__________) (__________)
Net cash from operating activities 9,928 6,395
(__________) (__________)
Notes to the Financial Statements
1 Segmental analysis
The segmental analysis has been amended to better reflect how
the business is now managed, in particular all SaaS income,
whatever the route to market, is shown as a single segment. The
segments used by management to review the operations of the
business are disclosed below.
1) Core Insurance
Personal Assurance Plc (PA), a subsidiary within the Group, is a
PRA regulated general insurance Company and is authorised to
transact accident and sickness insurance. It was established in
1984 and has been underwriting business since 1985. In 1997
Personal Group Holdings Plc (PGH) was created and became the
ultimate parent undertaking of the Group.
Personal Assurance (Guernsey) Limited (PAGL), a subsidiary
within the Group, is regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services
Commission and has been underwriting death benefit policies since
March 2015.
This operating segment derives the majority of its revenue from
the underwriting by PA and PAGL of insurance policies that have
been bought by employees of host companies via bespoke benefit
programmes.
2) IT Salary Sacrifice
IT salary sacrifice refers to the trade of PG Let's Connect, a
salary sacrifice technology Company purchased in 2014.
3) SaaS
Revenue in this segment relates to the annual subscription
income and other related income arising from the licensing of Hapi,
the Group's employee benefit platform. This includes sales to both
the large corporate and SME sectors.
4) Other
The other operating segment consists exclusively of revenue
generated by Berkeley Morgan Group (BMG) and its subsidiary
undertakings along with any investment and rental income obtained
by the Group.
The discontinued segment is:
Mobile
Mobile refers to the trade of Personal Group Mobile a mobile
phone salary sacrifice Company set up from the trade and assets of
Shebang Technologies purchased in 2015, which ceased trading in
December 2016.
The revenue and net result generated by each of the Group's
operating segments are summarised as follows:
IT Salary Continuing Discontinued
Core Insurance Sacrifice SaaS Other - Group - Mobile
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
Operating segments
2017
Revenue
Earned premiums
net of reinsurance 30,670 - 9 - 30,679 -
Other insurance
related income 57 - - 334 391 -
Other income - 11,292 2,648 105 14,045 63
Investment property - - - 1 1 -
Investment income - - - 117 117 -
(_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________)
30,727 11,292 2,657 557 45,233 63
Total revenue (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________)
Net result for
year before tax 9,406 (111) 197 18 9,510 295
PG Mobile - Reorganisation
costs - - - - - (225)
PG Let's Connect - - -
- Tax provision - - -
PG Let's Connect
- Amortisation
of intangibles - 330 - - 330 -
Share based payments - - - 192 192 -
Depreciation 392 30 5 10 437 -
Amortisation (other) 162 39 142 - 343 -
EBITDA* 9,960 288 344 220 10,812 70
(_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________)
Segment assets 21,628 10,979 1,384 15,568 49,560 8
(_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________)
Segment liabilities 6,379 8,035 1,257 139 15,810 2
(_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________)
Depreciation and
amortisation 554 399 147 10 1,110 -
(_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________)
IT Salary Continuing Discontinued
Core Insurance Sacrifice SaaS Other - Group - Mobile
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
Operating segments
2016
Revenue
Earned premiums
net of reinsurance 31,223 - - - 31,223 -
Other insurance
related income (14) - - 569 555 -
Other income - 20,069 1,498 123 21,690 2,024
Investment property - - - 59 59 -
Investment income - - - 93 93 -
(_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________)
31,209 20,069 1,498 844 53,620 2,024
Total revenue (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________) (_________)
Net result for
year before tax 9,415 1,712 (409) (197) 10,521 (1,758)
PG Mobile - Reorganisation
costs - - - - - 571
PG Let's Connect
- Tax provision - (270) - - (270) -
PG Let's Connect
- Amortisation
of intangibles - 330 - - 330 -
Share based payments - - - 222 222 -
Depreciation 388 18 4 9 419 30
Amortisation (other) 136 16 22 - 174 -
EBITDA* 9,939 1,806 (383) 34 11,396 (1,157)
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Segment assets 20,431 16,216 590 15,780 53,017 125
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Segment liabilities 6,753 13,168 625 132 20,678 139
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Depreciation and
amortisation 524 364 26 9 923 30
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2. Taxation comprises United Kingdom corporation tax of
GBP1,569,000 (2016: GBP1,113,000) and a deferred tax credit of
GBP26,000 (2016: charge of GBP366,000)
3. The basic and diluted earnings per share are based on profit
for the financial year of GBP8,262,000 (2016: GBP7,284,000) and on
30,743,826 basic (2016: 30,442,426) and 31,282,267 diluted (2016:
31,189,872) ordinary shares, the weighted average number of shares
in issue during the year.
4. The total dividend paid in the year was GBP6,979,000 (2016: GBP6,697,000)
This preliminary statement has been extracted from the 2017
audited financial statements that will be posted to shareholders in
due course. The statutory accounts for each of the two years to 31
December 2016 and 31 December 2015 received audit reports, which
were unqualified and did not contain statements under section 498
(2) or (3) of the Companies Act 2006. The 2016 accounts have been
filed with the Registrar of Companies but the 2017 accounts are not
yet filed.
Alternative Performance Measures
The Group uses an alternative (non-Generally Accepted Accounting
Practice (non-GAAP)) financial measures when reviewing performance
of the Group, evidenced by executive management bonus performance
targets being measured in relation to adjusted EBITDA*. As such,
this measure is important and should be considered alongside the
IFRS measures.
For adjusted EBITDA*, the adjustments are separately disclosed
and are items that are non-underlying to trading activities and
which are significant in size. For example, amortisation of
acquisition related intangible assets is a non-cash item which
fluctuates in line with activity, movement in the PG Let's Connect
tax provision is considered to be a non-underlying item, relates to
a liability inherited on acquisition of that business and has the
potential to fluctuate and be of significant size and share-based
payments are a non-cash item which have historically been
significant in size, can fluctuate based on judgemental assumptions
made about share price and have no impact on total equity.
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