Shares in Sopheon Group PLC (LON:SPE), which provides software for innovation management, opened modestly higher after an upbeat trading statement.
The company said revenue for the year just ended will be “comfortably in line” with the market expectations that were upgraded three months ago while early indications are for a stronger outperformance at the underlying earnings (EBITDA) and pre-tax profit levels.
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Sopheon issued the normal caveat that the figures need to be totted up and audited properly.
It expects to issue its results for 2018 on 21 March.
The shares were up 19p at 1,354p.
A bit of a chocolate theme in the first major movers today, featuring Codemasters (ticker symbol CDM, which used to stand for Cadbury's Dairy Milk), Sopheon and Hershey's. https://t.co/Z2rm8L3txu via @proactive_uk #brighterir #AndrewScottTV #CapitalNetwork1
— John Harrington (@JournoJohnH) January 8, 2019