Financial Announcements
24 Aug 2009
Half-Yearly Results Announcement - January-June 2009
G4S, the world’s leading international security solutions group, today announces its half year results for the six months to 30 June 2009.Results Highlights
- Group turnover* up 11.8% to £3,486.1 million (2008:£ 3,117.0m)
- Organic turnover growth* of 4.8% (2008: 10.5%)
- PBITA* up 13.4% to £229.8 million (2008:£202.6m)
- Margin* improved to 6.6% (2008: 6.5%)
- Operating cash flow generation of 75% of PBITA (2008: 77%)
- Adjusted earnings per share increased 25.0% to 9.0p (2008: 7.2p) and by 9.8% at constant exchange rates (2008: 8.2p)
- Interim dividend up 10% to 3.02 pence per share, DKK 0.2599 (2008: 2.75p/DKK 0.2572)
- Continued good performance across all regions and business segments
- Expect a strong performance for the full year
Nick Buckles, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
“Our overall achievement of 4.8% organic growth and 9.8% EPS growth is a strong performance against a back-drop of lower economic growth and inflation falling in many of our markets. This demonstrates the resilience of our business model and the robustness of our customer relationships and contract base. Our higher growth, more complex business segments in government, cash solutions and new markets are all performing very well.
Through good cost control, productivity improvements and focus on service quality across the group, we have achieved double digit profit growth and an improvement in the margin compared to the prior year.
Overall, we remain confident about our performance for the year and into 2010.”
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Half-Yearly Results Announcement January-June 2009For further enquiries, please contact:
| Nick Buckles Chief Executive Officer Trevor Dighton Chief Financial Officer Helen Parris Director of Investor Relations | +44 (0) 1293 554400 |
Kevin Smith
Citigate Dewe Rogerson
+44 (0) 7973 672649
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Notes to Editors:
G4S is the world’s leading international security solutions group, which specialises in outsourced business processes in sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat.
G4S is the largest employer quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary stock exchange listing in Copenhagen. G4S has operations in over 110 countries and over 585,000 employees. For more information on G4S, visit www.g4s.com.
Presentation of Results:
A presentation to investors and analysts took place today at 0900hrs at the London Stock Exchange, 10 Paternoster Square, London, EC4M 7LS.
The presentation is webcast at:
http://streamstudio.world-television.com/CCUIv3/login.aspx?ticket=707-803-7777&target=en
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Half-Yearly Results Jan-Jun 09 PresentationTo listen to the play back of the conference call please dial:
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