{"id":96,"date":"2006-02-10T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-02-10T15:04:33","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T20:04:33","slug":"thumbs-up-for-betonsports-pre-tax-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/thumbs-up-for-betonsports-pre-tax-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs up for BetonSports&#8217; pre-tax profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a trading statement released to the London Stock Exchange on February 10th, <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.betonsports.com\/?ads=osga_text');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.betonsports.com\/?ads=osga_text\" target=\"_new\">BetonSports<\/a> said it expected pre-tax profits before exceptional items for the year to 5 February would be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153broadly in line with market expectations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. <\/p>\n<p>The statement added that the company was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pleased\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with final-quarter key performance indicators on customer sign-ups and deposits that continued to be ahead of the comparative period in the prior year.<\/p>\n<p>Activity from last weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NFL SuperBowl reached record levels but with the favourite, the Pittsburgh Steelers, winning, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the margin achieved was, disappointingly, neutral\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came a day after research from Altium Capital moved BetonSports to a Hold from a Buy and recommended investors look to switch into fellow US-facing sportsbook Leisure &#038; Gaming (L&#038;G) &#8211; (VIP Sports).<\/p>\n<p>Greg Feehely and Wayne Brown, analysts at Altium Capital, said L&#038;G shares looked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153far more compelling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at present levels. <\/p>\n<p>They added: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Furthermore, we know L&#038;G\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s numbers for the year to December 2005 are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcin the bag\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and we believe the current year estimates leave room for upgrades as the year progresses, given the encouraging performance (in particular) from the (recent) acquisitions of Nine.com and English Harbour.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BetonSports said it expected pre-tax profits be &#8220;broadly in line with market expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}