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Available reports
- 1 The FY2025 operating margin ended the period marginally below its FY2021 starting point despite approximately 95% cumulative revenue growth…
- 2 Net cash compressed from £65.8m at FY2024 year-end to £17.0m at FY2025 year-end, a reduction of approximately £49m…
- 3 DSO expanded from 112 days in FY2023 to 135 days in FY2024 — a 23-day…
- 4 Acquired intangible amortisation has appeared as the dominant component of…
- 5 Revenue growth decelerated sharply from approximately 30% in FY2023→FY2024 to…
- 1 The continuing Cyber Security segment reported a statutory operating loss of −£6.1m in FY2025…
- 2 DSO deteriorated by 17.3 days from 43.8 to 61.1 days between FY2024 and FY2025…
- 3 The Group's goodwill and intangibles base declined by a combined £335m between…
- 4 Individually Significant Items have been charged in every year of the five-year…
- 5 The Group's capital allocation posture has prioritised shareholder…
- 1 The $54,220m goodwill step-up and $36,716m intangibles step-up in FY2024…
- 2 Reported net margin troughed at 11.4% in FY2024 — the year of the VMware close…
- 3 DSO nearly doubled between FY2023 and FY2025, and the receivables balance grew $5,818m in FY2025 alone…
- 4 Total shareholder distributions (dividends plus net buybacks) have been…
- 5 Infrastructure software revenue includes $7,800m of upfront licence revenue…
- 1 Revenue contraction meeting a high and sticky absolute dividend commitment…
- 2 Gross margin compression concentrated in FY2024–FY2025 coincides with a…
- 3 The FY2021 other investing cash outflow of €13,315m — an order of magnitude…
- 4 Interest coverage declined sharply and persistently across all five years, with the steepest single-year drop between FY2022 and FY2023…
- 5 Exceptional or special items appeared in every year from FY2021 to FY2025, with the gap between reported and normalised earnings ranging from €734m to €1,042m annually…
- 1 Operating leverage absent despite 149.6% revenue growth
- 2 Loom acquisition reset the balance sheet while operating margin remained negative
- 3 Cash generation materially decoupled from GAAP earnings
- 4 Buyback programme scaled to 52% of OCF without operating profitability