PRESS INFORMATION
Heading: 2015 annual results
Nanterre, March 9, 2016 (after the closing of the stock exchange)
2015: 9.3% operating profit
and 6.1% net profit
| Accounts as at December 31 (audited and in millions of euros) | 2015 | 2014 |
| Revenues | 399.4 | 355.2 |
| Business operating profit (1) | 37.6 (9.4 %) | 36.5 (10.3%) |
| Operating profit | 37.1 (9.3%) | 35.5 (10.0%) |
| Net financial income | 1.4 | 1.7 |
| Income tax | (14.0) | (13.6) |
| Net profit | 24.5 (6.1%) | 23.6 (6.6%) |
| - of which, group share | 21.3 | 20.5 |
| Free cash flow (2) | 18.7 | 25.0 |
| Net cash and cash equivalents | 127.8 | 122.8 |
| Staff at year-end | 4,580 | 4,082 |
(1) Prior to cost of free shares, stock options and impairment of assets.
(2) Cash flow from operational activities, plus financial profit and less net industrial investments.
Achievements
The end-year closing confirms that:
- with revenues up 12.4% (11.4% in organic growth v. a 2% increase for the market), NEURONES has increased its market share;
- operating profit and net profit have also risen, standing at 9.3% and 6.1% of revenues respectively;
- after a year of significant investments (cloud infrastructures, digital transformation, Big Data software, external growth), net cash and cash equivalents (€127.8m) continue to grow.
Outlook
As usual, forecasts for the current year will be posted along with the Group's 1st quarter revenues. These will benefit from the momentum gathered in 2015 as well as the €9m in revenues generated by the SAP specialist that joined the group, consolidated as of January 1, 2016.
About NEURONES
With 4,800 experts, the NEURONES group is specialized in Consulting (Management and Organization) and IT Services (Infrastructures and Applications). It supports its clients in their change-management projects and in the upgrading and outsourcing of their Information Systems.
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