Moneysupermarket expects profit to meet market forecasts after solid first half
Analysts at Peel Hunt were hoping for an upgrade to the full-year guidance so downgraded its recommendation on the shares to 'hold' from 'add'
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MONY Group PLC
LON:MONY
MONY Group PLC is the parent company of Moneysupermarket.com, the price comparison site, Money Saving Expert, Ice Lolly and Quidco. It offers online services to consumers enabling them to search for and compare a wide range of products across money, insurance, travel and home services, and assists them in finding the product most suited to their requirements. Moneysupermarket.com's price comparison services offer a compelling value proposition to both consumers and product providers, by simplifying consumers' research, improving consumers' shopping experience and enabling product providers and advertisers to effectively target their marketing spend. The Group operates two flagship websites, moneysupermarket.com and travelsupermarket.com. The Group's websites attracted approximately 64 million visitors and 523 million page impressions during 2006.
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