Final Results

Radstone Technology PLC 14 June 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 June 2005 RADSTONE TECHNOLOGY PLC Preliminary Results "Continued growth" Radstone Technology, the world's leading independent supplier of high-performance, embedded computer products for defence and aerospace applications today announces preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2005. Key Points Turnover up 14% to £49.9m (2004: £43.7m). Group Profit before tax, goodwill and exceptional items increased 15% to £8.5m (2004: £7.4m). Normalised Earnings per share * up 5% to 21.54p (2004: 20.50p). Basic Earnings per share up from 5.00p to 26.12p Final dividend of 2.7p per share increasing the total dividend by 20% to 3.6p (2004: 3.0p). Order book ended the year at a record level at £86.5m (2004 : £79.3m) $26.5m multi-year production order from Raytheon Octec Ltd (acquired in July 2004) has been earnings enhancing. EMS business showed a substantial improvement in results during the year, following our reorganisation of the business, with a contribution of 18.7% of sales (2004 : 9.8%) * Calculated after adjusting profit after tax for the effect of goodwill amortisation and exceptional items. Jeff Perrin, Chief Executive commenting on the results said: "The US defence market remains strong and its increasing investment in technology to achieve a complete network centric battlefield, with armed forces that are equipped for rapid deployment, will mean that Radstone is well placed to benefit from our customers' requirements for high performance embedded computing. The Group has invested substantially in new facilities, it has developed and brought to market new products and it has increased its market reach through targeted acquisitions. We have continued to deliver improved financial performance; have a record order book and a healthy balance sheet and so begin this financial year in a strong position." For further information: Radstone Technology 01327-359444 Jeff Perrin, Chief Executive Web: http://www.radstone.co.uk Kevin Boyd, Group Finance Director Buchanan Communications 020 7466 5000 Tim Thompson or Nicola Cronk Email : nicolac@buchanan.uk.com Chairman's Statement for the year ended 31 March 2005 I am pleased to report a strong set of results from the Radstone Group. Group profit before tax, goodwill and exceptional items recorded its ninth successive year of improvement, increasing by 15% to £8.5m from £7.4m last year (see calculation in note 4). Sales in the Embedded Computing business were adversely affected by the weak US dollar (explained in detail in the Financial Review). As a result the 14% increase in sales to £50m was mainly due to the additional deliveries from Octec acquired in July 2004 and a full year's contribution from ICS acquired in September 2003. Basic earnings per share under FRS14 were 26.12p (2004: 5.00p). Normalised earnings per share (see calculation in note 1) increased by 5% to 21.54p (2004: 20.50p). New orders received during the year to 31 March 2005 totalled £54.4m and the order book ended the year at a record level at £86.5m, (2004: £79.3m). Dividend In light of the underlying performance of the Group and the directors' intention of creating shareholder value through a progressive dividend policy, your board is recommending a final dividend of 2.7p per ordinary share, giving a dividend of 3.6p for the year, which represents an increase of 20% . This will be paid on 28 September to shareholders on the register on 9 September 2005. New Product Development This was a strong period for new product introductions, ensuring that Radstone remains at the forefront of its industry. Over the past year we have continued to invest significant resources in product development, which reached a record level of £6.1m (2004: £4.5m) equivalent to 12.2% (2004: 10.3%) of turnover. Corporate Activity In July 2004 we completed the acquisition of Octec Ltd based in Bracknell, UK, for a total consideration of £10.8m. The consideration payable on completion was £10.7m and a further £0.1m was paid in May 2005 on achievement of profit targets for the 12 months to January 2005. To finance the acquisition, approximately £6.5m was raised by way of a placing of shares and the balance from existing banking facilities. It was especially pleasing to note, that the enhancement by Octec of our earnings per share, met our short-term expectation at the time of the acquisition. I welcome the employees of Octec to the Radstone Group. In our interim report we gave details of the changes that had been negotiated with the vendors of ICS with respect to their earn-out agreement. This detailed that during September 2004, following the successful completion of the integration of ICS, agreement was reached with Dr. Dipak Roy, the founder and former shareholder of ICS, that he resign his position as President of ICS. As part of the agreement, Radstone paid to the vendors C$7.5m (approximately £3.3m) in lieu of a payment of C$5.0m (approximately £2.2m) in January 2005 and a potential payment of up to C$5.0m in January 2006. ICS continues to perform in line with expectations at the time of the acquisition. During January 2005 we purchased through DaqScribe Technology Inc. (our subsidiary specialising in mechanical test and measurement), the trade and assets of SavvyCorp for $167k. SavvyCorp offers a complete high performance, low cost data acquisition system solution and high bandwidth signal conditioning modules to measure pressure, temperature and other sensor inputs. In March 2005 we sold SensorCom Inc., a small system integrator, to its management team for $1.6m. SensorCom joined the Radstone Group as part of the acquisition of ICS Ltd, of which it was a subsidiary, in September 2003. ICS had previously acquired SensorCom for $285k in September 2002. It had become apparent that strategically our core engineering development and manufacturing businesses and SensorCom's integration business were not a good fit and therefore your board made the decision to divest itself of the business. Facilities Construction of a new purpose built 75,000 sq. ft. freehold facility within Towcester was completed on schedule and to budget in early May 2004. Our own internal fit-out took a further three weeks and we relocated in early June with minimal disruption to production. This modern state-of-the-art facility, with its increased capacity is a major competitive advantage for the Group. With the large majority of our business emanating from customers in the United States, we took the decision to open, in November 2004, an engineering design centre near Boston, Massachusetts. This will be home to a team of design and development engineers in addition to front line customer service and support staff. This will complement the existing Radstone sales and support offices located throughout the USA. Our vision for the future sees us continuing to develop our presence still further in North America. Outlook The US defence market remains strong and its increasing investment in technology to achieve a complete network centric battlefield, with armed forces that are equipped for rapid deployment, will mean that Radstone is well placed to benefit from our customers' requirements for high performance embedded computing. The Group has invested substantially in new facilities, it has developed and brought to market new products and it has increased its market reach through targeted acquisitions. Radstone has continued to deliver improved financial performance; it has a record order book and a healthy balance sheet and so begins this financial year in a strong position. Operations Review Embedded Computing 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 Total sales (all external) 41,822 33,181 Gross profit 23,663 19,602 Contribution (Note 2) 11,435 10,046 In July 2004, Radstone acquired Octec Ltd, a UK company based in Bracknell. The company designs and manufactures image processors and video trackers for the embedded computing market. Octec's core competency in advanced image processing and video tracking software and algorithms is highly complementary to Radstone's computer subsystem expertise. These are new application areas for Radstone and are a significant step in our strategy of supplying a wider range of system solutions to our customers. Strategically, the test and measurement market is a growth area for us and we have taken advantage of the opportunity to acquire IP that will further strengthen our offering, by purchasing the trade and assets of SavvyCorp through DaqScribe Technology Inc., our subsidiary specialising in this market. Development of new leading-edge products continues to be a key differentiator between Radstone and its competitors. Investment in development amounted to £6.1m (2004: £4.5m) representing 14.6% (2004: 13.6%) of Embedded Computing sales. During the year we introduced fifteen new products; among these was the G4DSP-XE, the most advanced PowerPC digital signal processing board available. Also introduced was the Adept-104 from Octec, which is a small form factor board with very low power consumption, offering unique architecture for image processing; targeting UAV applications as well as other security and surveillance applications. Finally ICS developed its first rugged product, the ICS PMC-571, a rugged software radio mezzanine transceiver card, which is the first product in the world to offer wide bandwidth analog to digital and digital to analog conversion capabilities at software radio frequencies on a rugged PMC card. In November 2004 we opened a new engineering design centre near Boston Massachusetts. By May 2005 we had announced our first software product from this facility - Axis. This is a powerful suite of software tools that allows system designers to develop complex, highly capable solutions using multiple processors in order to deliver the processing power required in the most advanced military applications. The tools hide the complexities and difficulties of making multiple processors operate together, to allow our customer's engineers to concentrate on the solution and thereby reduce engineering timescales. This product delivers a powerful competitive advantage to Radstone. Two strategic alliances were announced during the year. The first with Ultra Electronics Datel, involves collaboration in the development of flight certifiable board support packages for our single board computers in accordance with DO-178B, the de facto standard in certifying all new aviation software. This strengthens further Radstone's position in the growing avionics market. The second alliance is with Parker Hannifin and involves collaboration on the development of a range of rugged, liquid-cooled solutions for sub-systems that feature higher power levels from faster processors and thus require increased heat dissipation. The first product to be developed under this alliance was released to the market in January 2005. Sales for the Embedded Computing business included £4.8m attributable to Octec Ltd. The continuing weakness of the US dollar, the unit's main trading currency, affected organic growth as reported in sterling. In constant dollars and excluding Octec, Embedded Computing sales grew by £6.5m, equivalent to 19.6%. Sales were more heavily weighted towards the second half of the year than in previous years. This was due to the component supply and production issues, highlighted at the time of our interim results announcement and subsequently resolved during quarters 3 and 4. Excluding Octec, 70% of shipments occurred in the second half of the year, compared with 58% in 2004. In our main US market, deliveries of £29.0m represented 58% of Group sales compared with 53% in 2004. Major US programme deliveries were MLRS (Harris Corporation), Firefinder (Northrop Grumman), ATFLIR (Raytheon Systems), ADCAP (Raytheon Systems) and Abrams Tank CEEP (General Dynamics). Gross profit increased to £23.7m compared with £19.6m last year (+20.9%), due mainly to the additional gross profit from Octec of £3.0m. The reduction in gross profit margin from 59.0% to 56.7% was due to the effect of the weak US dollar and our hedging instruments. In constant dollar terms the margin would have been similar to the previous year. Contribution decreased to 27.3% of sales (2004: 30.3%), due to the effect of the US dollar and our hedging instruments. Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 Total sales 8,800 11,327 Sales to Embedded Computing (735) (787) External sales 8,065 10,540 Gross profit 1,873 1,392 Contribution (Note 2) 1,644 1,114 Following on from the reorganisation of our EMS business in November 2003 we now have a more efficient and tightly focused unit, targeting customers that require small to medium batch sizes of complex electronic assemblies. This has resulted in a substantial improvement in results during the year, returning a contribution of 18.7% of sales compared with 9.8% in 2004. The majority of the activity in the year was for commercial customers involved in industrial control, test & measurement, civil surveillance, electronic displays and electronics for motor sports. Current high levels of quotation and enquiry activity from defence system integrators would indicate that for the current year 2006, they will represent a greater proportion of third party sales than the 7% achieved in 2005. As part of the reorganisation in 2003-04 mentioned earlier, we made the decision to target only high added value contracts that met strict criteria with respect to low volume high complexity assemblies which had the effect of reducing third party sales by £2.4m to £8.1m this year. Together with the cost savings introduced this increased the gross profit by £0.5m, so that the gross profit margin on sales rose substantially from 12.3% to 21.3%. During the year our EMS business achieved the accreditation ISO 14001, thereby demonstrating their commitment to achieving best standards for environmental management. Orders The order book at 31 March 2005 totalled a record £86.5m, an increase of 9% in sterling terms from the £79.3m achieved in 2004. New orders booked totalled £54.4m in 2005, compared with £58.9m in 2004. Octec contributed £4.8m to this total in 2005. UK orders for the Group totalled £18.3m, below last year by £12.5m due to the receipt in 2003-04 of a £14m multi-year production contract. No major UK multi-year production contract was received in 2004-05. Orders from mainland Europe of £4.6m and the Far East of £1.3m, increased by £3m and £0.4m respectively compared to last year. Radstone in the USA had another excellent year for new orders received, with bookings of $69.1m. This included a multi-year production order from Raytheon for $26.7m on a torpedo upgrade programme that was in addition to $5.5m received in the first half of the year on the same programme. The previous year's US order intake was $55.1m and included the largest single order to-date for $41m on a multi-year production programme for delivery over seven years. Order intake for the EMS business, which is all UK based declined by £1.9m as the unit, in line with its current strategy, targeted only those customers that require small to medium batch sizes of complex electronic assemblies. Financial Review Overview Analysis of this year's result is complicated by the weakening of the US dollar, which moved from an average exchange rate of 1.71 in the prior year to 1.85. As approximately 79% of the Embedded Computing division's sales in the year were in US dollars, the weakness in the dollar has had considerable impact on the year's results. The effect on profit before tax for the year is estimated to be £1.9m. Group sales of £49.9m comprised £41.8m from the Embedded Computing division and £8.1m from EMS. Embedded Computing benefited from sales of £4.8m from Octec Limited, which was acquired in July, but suffered a reduction of £2.7m in constant dollar terms due to the fall in the US dollar. In EMS, which has very little dollar exposure, turnover was down 23%, which was anticipated, due to the effects of the restructuring carried out in the previous year which focused the division on low volume high complexity work. Reported gross margins in Embedded Computing fell to 56.7% from 59.0%. Stripping the effects of hedging out of both years, margins in constant dollars were up slightly reflecting the positive contribution of Octec which produced a gross margin of 64.4% in its nine months with the Group. Within the EMS business gross margins improved from 12.3% to 21.3% as a result of the efficiencies gained from the closure of the Hawarden operation, the consolidation of the two businesses on the one site at Milton Keynes and a more targeted product mix of high added value contracts. In absolute terms, Group gross profits increased by £4.5m to £25.5m. Expenditure on development, sales, marketing and administration increased by £2.8m with the result that operating profit (before goodwill amortisation of £1.4m) increased by £1.7m to £9.5m, a 22% improvement. This represented an operating profit margin before goodwill of 19.1% of sales, compared to 17.8% last year. In constant dollar terms the operating profit margin would have been 23% representing growth of 48%. EBITDA (see note to the consolidated cash flow statement) at £11.6m was 20.4% above last year. The first half of the year generated £0.8m and the second half £10.8m; compared with £2.3m and £7.3m respectively. Exceptional items in the year relate to the profit on the sale of the Group's Water Lane site and the profit on disposal of SensorCom Inc. The disposal of the Water Lane site which took place in July 2004 generated a profit of £2.3m. SensorCom joined the Radstone Group as part of the acquisition of ICS Limited, of which it was a subsidiary, in September 2003. Based in Annapolis, Maryland, the company is a small systems integrator with a different focus from the other elements of Radstone's embedded computing division and therefore the Board of Radstone decided to divest the business to its current management team. ICS acquired SensorCom for $0.3m in September 2002 and it has been sold for $1.6 million. Net assets, at disposal, after the payment of a $0.4m dividend to the Group, were approximately $0.1m. The disposal generated an exceptional profit before tax of £0.6m. In the year to 31 March 2005, SensorCom contributed £0.2m to the profit before tax of the Group. Interest charges have grown by £0.6m to £1.0m due to the increased borrowing used to finance the construction of the new facility in Towcester and the acquisitions of ICS and Octec. The tax charge of £2.4m represents 23.4% of the pre-tax profit compared to 57.4% in 2004. This improved percentage reflects the exceptional gain on the sale of the Water Lane facility which was not subject to tax. Before exceptionals and goodwill the tax rate was 25.3% in 2005 and 27.6% in 2004. The basic earnings per share (FRS14) of 26.12p were boosted by the exceptional profits in the year whereas last year's at 5.00p were depressed by the exceptional closure costs of the Hawarden facility in that year. The normalised earnings per share (see calculation in note 1) were 21.54p, a 5.1% increase compared to last year. Adjusted for the decline in the dollar, the normalised earnings per share would have been 26.4p, a 29% increase. Cash flow Cash flow from operating activities was £8.3m compared to £9.1m last year. After deducting net interest and tax payments of £0.9m and £2.1m respectively and capital expenditure (excluding construction of the new property) of £2.4m, free cash flow amounted to £2.9m. From the free cash flow a dividend of £1.0m was paid and final payments of £2.3m on the construction of the new building. Cash received from the sale of the Water Lane site was £3.9m resulting in a cash inflow of £3.5m before acquisitions and financing. The £10.6m paid for Octec, net of cash acquired and costs, was financed by £6.2m from the proceeds of a placing of shares and the balance from cash resources and shares issued to vendors. The acquisition of the intellectual property of Savvy Corp cost £0.1m, while the net cash effect of the disposal of SensorCom was an inflow of £0.8m In our interim report we gave details of the changes that had been negotiated with the vendors of ICS with respect to their earn-out agreement. This resulted in a payment to the vendors of CAN$7.5m (£3.3m) during the year in lieu of a payment of CAN$5.0m in January 2005 and a potential payment of up to CAN$5.0m in January 2006. A net repayment of loans totalling £1.7m left the Group with net debt of £16.6m at year end, compared with net debt of £19.5m at the half year and net debt of £12.7m at the same time last year. Investment A further £2.3m was spent in completing the new facility in Towcester. Underlying capital expenditure (excluding the new building) was a net £2.4m compared with £1.7m in 2004 and reflects the increased size of the Group post the ICS and Octec acquisitions. Company funded development expenditure grew to £6.1m (2004: £4.5m), representing 14.6% of sales for the Embedded Computing business (2004: 13.6%). Consistent with the Group's established policy, all product development was charged directly to the profit and loss account. Liquidity Net debt of £16.6m equates to gearing of 36% compared to 48% at the half year and 39% at the end of the prior year. Current and quick ratios were 2.2 and 1.5 respectively, compared to 2.3 and 1.7 last year. Interest was covered 9.2 times compared to 19.8 times last year. The total dividend for the year is covered 6.7 times (4.4 times excluding exceptionals) compared to 1.5 times last year (5.5 times excluding exceptionals). The Group seeks to reduce financial risk and to ensure sufficient liquidity is available to meet foreseeable needs. Our policy is to maintain a balance between continuity of funding and flexibility through the cost-effective use of borrowings with a range of maturities. Performance Normalised earnings per share, (see calculation in note 1), which is indicative of underlying performance, grew by 5.1% to 21.54p (2004: 20.50p). In constant dollar terms these would have been 26.4p. The return (being operating profit before goodwill - see note to the cash flow statement) on average capital employed fell from 23.2% to 17.6%. Return (being profit after tax excluding exceptional items) on opening equity of 15.2% was below last year's 20.8%. Both of these falls are due in the main to the effect of the dollar on the year and to a lesser extent the capitalised goodwill on recent acquisitions. Treasury With a substantial percentage of revenue in United States dollars, hedging foreign exchange fluctuations against this currency is recognised by the directors as a key responsibility. While this exposure is naturally hedged by purchases of components in US dollars and the local costs of our US operations, there still remains a net exposure to be hedged. In the year, the net exposure was approximately $40m which was protected from the dollar's weakness to some extent by the prudent use of various financial instruments. The hedged rate achieved was approximately £1:US$1.7 compared to a sales weighted rate of £1: US$1.87. At 31 March 2004 there were £0.8m of unrealised net gains on forward foreign currency contracts and options (2004: £1.8m of net gains) covering US dollars. None of these was recognised at the balance sheet date. All unrealised net gains are expected to be dealt with in the profit and loss accounts for the periods ending 31 March 2006 and 31 March 2007. Since unrealised gains or losses are calculated by marking to market forward foreign currency contracts and options, which are used to calculate foreign currency prices for our products, the off-set for these unrealised amounts is the sales which will result from the physical delivery of these products. Translation exposure arising on the consolidation of the Group's US and Canadian assets is hedged by use of US and Canadian dollar loans in the UK parent company. The net effect of these are taken directly to reserves as allowed under SSAP20, ensuring that only trading transaction gains and losses on foreign exchange are represented in the profit and loss account. The interest rate exposure on the US dollar, Canadian dollar and sterling loans are managed by a number of interest rate swaps. International Financial Reporting Standards Radstone Technology PLC will be required to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) when preparing its group accounts for the year ended 31 March 2006. The applicable standards have been identified and procedures reviewed to ensure that the relevant data is being captured to allow us to report under the new standards in our interim report for the year ending 31 March 2006. Consolidated Profit & Loss Account for the year ended 31 March 2005 Notes Continuing Acquisition 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 Turnover 45,093 4,794 49,887 43,721 Cost of sales (22,595) (1,756) (24,351) (22,727) Gross profit 22,498 3,088 25,536 20,994 Administration costs Administration (3,539) - (3,539) (3,391) Development (4,824) (1,282) (6,106) (4,525) Goodwill (994) (366) (1,360) (806) Total administration costs (9,357) (1,648) (11,005) (8,722) Distribution costs - sales and marketing (5,837) (514) (6,351) (5,309) Operating profit 7,304 876 8,180 6,963 Exceptional gain on disposal of freehold land and buildings 2,271 - Exceptional gain on disposal of subsidiary undertaking 641 - Exceptional cost on closure of operation - (3,508) Net interest payable (1,035) (393) Profit on ordinary activities before taxation 10,057 3,062 Taxation (2,355) (1,759) Profit for the financial year 7,702 1,303 Dividends (1,142) (842) Retained profit for the year 6,560 461 Basic earnings per share 1 26.12p 5.00p Normalised earnings per share 1 21.54p 20.50p Diluted earnings per share 1 25.97p 4.97p Statement of total recognised gains and losses £'000 £'000 Profit for the financial year 7,702 1,303 Exchange rate adjustment 505 (461) Total gains recognised relating to the year 8,207 842 There is no material difference between the profit reported above and that calculated on the historical cost basis. All results arise from continuing operations. Balance Sheets at 31 March 2005 Group Company Notes 2005 2004 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 Fixed assets Goodwill 28,662 20,613 - - Intangible assets 46 76 42 76 Total intangible assets 28,708 20,689 42 76 Tangible assets 16,843 15,350 10,950 10,337 Investments - - 38,651 26,492 45,551 36,039 49,643 36,905 Current assets Stocks 11,219 9,266 - - Debtors falling due after more than one year 423 - 151 151 Debtors 17,451 13,870 5,063 6,158 Cash at bank and in hand 4,304 9,150 10,774 17,096 33,397 32,286 15,988 23,405 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Bank and other borrowings 3,759 2,733 2,703 1,400 Other creditors 11,366 11,112 3,756 4,681 15,125 13,845 6,459 6,081 Net current assets 18,272 18,441 9,529 17,324 Total assets less current liabilities 63,823 54,480 59,172 54,229 Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year Bank and other borrowings 17,099 19,134 16,475 18,051 Other creditors - 2,066 - 2,066 17,099 21,200 16,475 20,117 Provisions for liabilities and charges 252 366 561 6,221 Net assets 46,472 32,914 42,136 27,891 Capital and reserves Called up share capital 3,787 3,503 3,787 3,503 Share premium account 25,099 19,962 25,059 19,962 Revaluation reserve - 218 - 218 Merger reserve 1,388 199 1,388 199 Profit and loss account 16,669 9,386 12,333 4,363 Own shares (431) (354) (431) (354) Equity shareholders' funds 3 46,472 32,914 42,136 27,891 Consolidated Cash Flow Statement for the year ended 31 March 2005 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 Operating activities Net cash inflow from operating activities 8,338 9,056 Returns on investments and servicing of finance Interest received 160 160 Interest paid (987) (447) Interest paid on finance leases (57) (83) (884) (370) Taxation UK Corporation tax paid (1,261) (1,673) Overseas tax paid (875) (1,222) (2,136) (2,895) Capital expenditure and financial investment Purchase of tangible fixed assets (4,701) (10,470) Proceeds from disposal of tangible fixed assets 3,908 10 Purchase of intangible fixed assets (5) (55) (798) (10,515) Acquisitions and disposals Purchase of subsidiary undertaking (12,501) (18,503) Net cash acquired with subsidiary 1,979 1,706 Deferred consideration on purchase of subsidiary undertaking (3,254) - Purchase of trade and assets (92) - Disposal of subsidiary undertaking 832 - Net cash disposed of with subsidiary (251) - Costs of terminating subsidiary activity - (125) (13,315) (16,922) Equity dividends paid (954) (689) Net cash (outflow)/inflow before financing (9,749) (22,335) Financing Issue of ordinary share capital 6,170 10,593 Purchase of own shares (152) (230) Proceeds from disposal of own shares 75 220 6,093 10,583 New loans 1,118 18,289 Repayment of loans (2,013) (556) Repayment of loan notes (480) (281) Repayment of principal under finance leases (289) (490) (1,664) 16,962 4,429 27,545 (Decrease)/increase in cash (5,320) 5,210 Note to the Consolidated Cash Flow Statement Reconciliation of operating profit to net cash inflow from operating activities Operating profit 8,180 6,963 Amortisation of goodwill 1,360 806 Operating profit before goodwill 9,540 7,769 Amortisation of intangible fixed assets 40 36 Depreciation of tangible fixed assets 1,972 1,792 Ebitda 11,552 9,597 Loss/(profit) on disposal of tangible fixed assets 4 (2) (Increase)/decrease in stocks (1,576) 962 (Increase)/decrease in debtors (3,132) 1,017 Increase/(decrease) in creditors 1,490 (2,518) Net cash inflow from operating activities 8,338 9,056 Notes: 1 Earnings per share 2005 2004 pence pence per share per share Basic earnings per share 26.12 5.00 Normalised earnings per share 21.54 20.50 Diluted earnings per share 25.97 4.97 The calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share is based on the profit for the year after tax of £7,702,000 (2004: £1,303,000). Normalised earnings per share is calculated after adjusting profit after tax for the effect of goodwill amortisation and exceptional items and in the directors' opinion is more indicative of underlying performance. The reconciliation of basic to normalised earnings per share is as follows: 2005 2004 pence pence per share per share Basic earnings per share 26.12 5.00 Goodwill written off 4.61 3.10 Exceptional gain on disposal of freehold land and buildings (7.91) - Exceptional gain on disposal of subsidiary undertaking (1.28) - Exceptional cost on closure of operation - 12.40 Normalised earnings per share 21.54 20.50 The weighted average number of shares in issue during the year used in the calculation of earnings per share is as per the following table: 2005 2004 '000 '000 Weighted average for year - basic and normalised earnings per share 29,488 26,041 Calculation of shares under option per FRS14 170 202 Weighted average for year - diluted earnings per share 29,658 26,243 2 Segmental information The analysis by geographical area of destination of the Group's turnover, all of which relates to continuing operations, is set out below: 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 United Kingdom 10,931 12,975 Rest of Europe 6,399 4,881 USA 28,960 23,336 Rest of World 3,597 2,529 49,887 43,721 Class of business The Group operates in two classes of business being Embedded Computing and Electronic Manufacturing Services. An analysis of the trading performance and net assets of each class of business is detailed below. Turnover Embedded Electronic Manufacturing Computing Services Total 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 Total sales 41,822 33,181 8,800 11,327 50,622 44,508 Inter-segment sales - - (735) (787) (735) (787) External sales 41,822 33,181 8,065 10,540 49,887 43,721 Cost of sales (18,159) (13,579) (6,192) ( 9,148) (24,351) (22,727) Gross profit 23,663 19,602 1,873 1,392 25,536 20,994 Operating costs (excluding goodwill and central overheads) (12,228) (9,556) (229) (278) (12,457) (9,834) Contribution 11,435 10,046 1,644 1,114 13,079 11,160 Administration cost - goodwill (1,360) (620) - (186) (1,360) (806) Exceptional item 641 - - (3,508) 641 (3,508) 10,716 9,426 1,644 (2,580) 12,360 6,846 Administration cost - central overhead (3,539) (3,391) Exceptional item - central 2,271 - Net interest payable (1,035) (393) Profit before taxation 10,057 3,062 Segmental net assets/ (liabilities) 21,151 13,781 (2,619) 3,063 18,532 16,844 Central net assets 45,378 29,719 Current and deferred taxation (1,413) (931) Net obligations under finance leases (665) (931) Loan notes (net) 291 (736) Cash, bank loans and overdrafts (15,651) (11,051) Net assets 46,472 32,914 Central overheads have not been allocated between the classes of business as to do so would be impracticable and misleading. Geographical segment In the directors' opinion, the disclosure of segmental information for turnover, profit before taxation and net assets by origin, would be seriously prejudicial to the interests of the Group. As a consequence, this information in its entirety has not been disclosed as permitted by SSAP25. 3 Reconciliation of movements in consolidated shareholders' funds 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 Profit for the financial year 7,702 1,303 Dividends paid and proposed (1,142) (842) Exchange rate adjustment 505 (461) New share capital subscribed 6,208 11,348 Costs of acquisition of subsidiary undertaking (105) (384) Merger reserve arising on acquisition of subsidiary company 467 199 Purchase of own shares (152) (230) Disposal of own shares 75 220 Net movement in shareholders' funds 13,558 11,153 Opening shareholders' funds 32,914 21,761 Closing shareholders' funds 46,472 32,914 4. Normalised Profit Before Tax 2005 2004 £'000 £'000 Profit on ordinary activities before taxation 10,057 3,062 Goodwill 1,359 806 Exceptional items (2,912) 3,508 Group profit before tax, goodwill & exceptional items 8,504 7,376 5. The comparative figures for the year to 31 March 2004 do not constitute full accounts within the meaning of Section 240 of the Companies Act 1985. Full accounts for that period, which received an unqualified audit report and did not contain a statement under Section 237(2) or Section 237(3) of the Companies Act 1985, have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies. The financial information set out in the preliminary statement of results for the year ended 31 March 2005 does not constitute statutory accounts within Section 240 of the Companies Act 1985. The Group's statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2005 have not yet been filed with the Registrar of Companies. The Company's auditors have issued an unqualified report on those financial statements. Their report contains no statement under Section 237(2) or Section 237(3) of the Companies Act 1985. 6. Copies of the 2005 Report and Accounts will be sent to shareholders in due course. Further copies will be available from the registered office of Radstone Technology PLC, Tove Valley Business Park, Towcester, Northants NN12 6PF. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange FR PKNKNOBKDPAD

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