- AVEVA Group plc (LON:AVV), the Cambridge-based engineering software company today released a brief trading update that revealed underlying sales growth of 9% at the half-year stage, before a negative impact from currency swings.
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- Newly acquired OSIsoft made a notable contribution to growth, which was in the mid-to high-teens rate for Subscription and Licence income and low single digits for Maintenance and Services revenues.
- Aveva said that margins responded strongly to the growth in revenues and that this has fed through to adjusted operating profits.
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Commenting on the trading statement, Steve Clayton, fund manager at HL Select said:
“The market was expecting Aveva to grow at around this pace, but perhaps a little more geared to the existing business, rather than OSIsoft. What the statement does not say is that the figures reported suggest that Q2 was a little slower than the 11% reported in Q1. The news of strong margin expansion is a positive, but the market’s rather disinterested reaction to these numbers, marking the stock a few pennies lower, shows that the lack of any acceleration in the business was investors’ main focus.”
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