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Nationwide Accident Repair Services (NARS:AIM) – Finals PTP: £6.8m (£2.4m) Divi: 3p (2.6p) The general decline in motor insurance claims suggests support service groups to the financial industry need to rework their business models. The social campaigns to promote road safety have... READ MORE >>

Uniq (UNIQ) – Finals PTP: -£44.1m (PTP: -£58.5m) Divi: 2.5p (5.2p) Once regarded as a recovery stock with a good yield, these results dashed these hopes. The final dividend was passed. The company also indicated the recovery programme would last five years instead of three, as... READ MORE >>

ZTC Communications (ZTC:AIM) - Interims PTP: £1.35m (£0.86m) Divi: n/a (n/a) A range of new models and tight cost control enabled pre-tax profit growth to outstrip even a 43% leap in own-branded unit shipments. Yet adverse winter weather and ongoing funding requirements mean the Chinese ... READ MORE >>

RGI International (RGI) – Finals PTP: $657.5m ($88.4m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The acquisition of six new development projects helped to support rapid growth in the company’s NAV per share, which rose from $4.50 to $15.51 during the year ending 31 December 2007. Growth was further driven ... READ MORE >>

IdaTech (IDA:AIM) – Finals PTP: -$16.3m (-$18.8) Divi: n/a (n/a) Unlike most other fuel cell technology developers, Oregon-based IdaTech, which joined Aim last August, makes a gross profit – $0.4 million in 2007, equating to a 7.5% gross margin. Revenues last year were $5.1 million,... READ MORE >>

Queenco Leisure International (QLI) – Finals PTP: €52.9m (€41.2m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The emerging markets casino developer is adding Cambodia to its destinations, hoping to pick up visiting trade from Thailand, where locals are banned from gambling. It will spend €70 million on... READ MORE >>

TT Electronics (TTG) – Finals PTP: £33.3m (£40m) Divi: 6.36p (6.36p) TT Electronics’ exposure to a gloomy looking automotive market and to the weak dollar meant that the company’s shares tanked this year, losing around 64% of their value to the current 86p, and that they didn’t... READ MORE >>

ScS Upholstery (SUY) – Interims PTP: -£8.4m (PTP £4m) Divi: n/a (7p) The results demonstrated why the shares have underperformed the market so badly over the past year (88% relative weakness). The group has been one of the main victims of the decline in consumer confidence. It has... READ MORE >>

Songbird Estates (SBDB:AIM) – Finals PTP: £182m (£884.1m) Divi: n/a (n/a) Pretax profits slumped to £182 million, with adjusted net asset value per share falling18.6% to £2.15 following the payment of dividends. A regular dividend policy has not been adopted by Songbird but a total... READ MORE >>

Land of Leather (LAN) - Interims PTP: £5.5m (£8.4m) Divi: n/a (3.6p) We warned last week that figures from the furniture retailer would make bleak reading, and so it proved, with the numbers showing an underlying decline in sales of 15% in the first half. On top of this, net margins... READ MORE >>

SOCO International (SIA) – Finals PTP: £28.43m (£24.53m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The results were and are still overshadowed by a delayed update from the massive E prospect in Vietnam. According to broker Evolution Securities success here could see the shares, which currently change hands for ... READ MORE >>

Cyan (CYAN:AIM) – Finals PTP: -£4.6m (-£3m) Divi: n/a (n/a) Cyan's CEO Ken Lamb, who joined the company last year, is leading a radical restructuring programme that should make the Cambridge-based microchip specialist profitable in 2009. New sales and operations teams have been hired... READ MORE >>

Lamprell (LAM:AIM) – Finals PTP: £35.64m (£17.22m) Divi: 4.4p (n/a) The UAE-based rig refurbishment specialist beat analysts expectations with its numbers for 2007 and, although management is not expecting the pace of growth going forward to match that of the past three years, it is... READ MORE >>

Kingfisher (KGF) - Finals PTP: £386m (£397m) Divi: 7.2p (10.6p) Full-year figures were predictably poor and the final divi was also halved. This was the third year of falling profitability. It is unlikely to be the last. These results bore a £22 million restructuring charge for... READ MORE >>

Earthport (EPO:AIM) – Interims PTP: -£1.2m (-£2.4m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The global electronic payments specialist should be able to build on the strong momentum established last year, as it capitalises upon its strong links with IT giant IBM (IBM:NYSE) and turns investment in sales into... READ MORE >>

Salamander Energy (SMDR) – Finals PTP: £8.98m (-£7.4m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The South East Asian-focused play, which floated on the main market in November 2006, has a good chance of becoming a FTSE 250 constituent later this year and these numbers will not have hurt those aspirations.... READ MORE >>

Clinton Cards (CC.) - Interims PTP: £24.3m (£20.6m) Divi: 0.9p (0.7p) The results demonstrated the resilience of the greetings card market with underlying sales up by 2%. Sales were especially strong (+4.7%) at the Birthdays chain. Brokers are forecasting further modest sales growth in... READ MORE >>

EG Solutions (EGS:AIM) – Finals PTP: -£0.82m (-£0.04m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The shares of the operations management software expert jumped 15% to 11.5p as a cost-cutting programme, a trio of major contract wins and new product launches offered hope that the worst may be over after a torrid... READ MORE >>

Bellway (BWY) – Interims PTP: £96.9m (£100.8m) Divi: 18.1p (16.45p) Falling house prices mean that annual price inflation is at 1.1%, its lowest level for 12 years. Still, Bellway has posted in-line interim results and reassured investors with a 10% increase of the interim... READ MORE >>

General Capital (GENC:AIM) - Finals PTP: £2.8m (£0.1m) Divi: n/a (n/a) The deterioration in credit markets is hitting the provider of secured loans to small businesses from two angles. On the one hand General Capital is seeing its own borrowing costs rising and may find difficulty... READ MORE >>