Year-end Trading Update

RNS Number : 2390P

Pennant International Group PLC

08 February 2023

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                8 February 2023

PENNANT INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC

Trading Update

Pennant International Group plc (AIM: PEN) (the "Company", the "Group"), a leading global provider of training technology and integrated product support solutions, provides the following trading update ahead of publication of the Company's full-year results for the year ended 31 December 2022 ("FY22") which it expects to announce during April 2023.

A preliminary unaudited assessment of the Group's trading for FY22 indicates:

• revenues of circa £13.7 million (2021: £16.0 million);

• record gross margin of 42% (2021: 27%);

•     earnings before interest, taxation and amortisation of circa £0.5 million (2021: loss before interest, taxation and amortisation of circa £0.8 million);

• net debt at year-end of £0.4 million (2021: net debt of £3.5 million);

• three-year order book at year-end of £25 million (2021: £22 million), of which £13 million is scheduled for delivery in 2023.

Phil Walker, Group CEO , commented: "This is now the third consecutive trading period for which we have reported positive EBITA[i]. The Group's net debt position materially improved during the second half of 2022 and with a re-aligned cost base, much-improved gross margins and a healthy contracted order book, the Group has entered 2023 with a real sense of momentum."

i - six months ended 31 December 2021, six months ended 30 June 2022, six months ended 31 December 2022.

Enquiries:

Pennant International Group plc	www.pennantplc.co.uk
Philip Walker, CEO David Clements, Commercial & Risk Director	[phone]
WH Ireland Limited (Nomad and Broker)	https://www.whirelandplc.com/capital-markets
Mike Coe Sarah Mather	[phone]
Walbrook PR (Financial PR)	[e-mail]
Paul Vann /  Tom Cooper /Joe Walker	[phone] Mob: [phone]

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