Financial information

The Share Centre – a strong, profitable business

The Share Centre is the trading arm of AIM-listed Share plc. Since it was founded in 1990, it has proved itself to be a strong, profitable business at the cutting edge of retail stockbroking.

Free from debt and demonstrating good year-on-year growth, The Share Centre is pleased to report that in the year ended 31st December 2011 underlying revenues* grew by 7% and underlying operating profit* by 43% compared to 2010.

2011 Highlights

Underlying revenue* increased 7% to £14.3m
Underlying operating profit* increased 43% to £1.6m
Final dividend proposed for 2011 of 0.36p per share
Growth in benchmarked** revenue market share to 6.1%*

* Excludes the impact of the Group's Interest Rate Floor Policy (IRFP) which expired in November 2010. Including the benefit of the IRFP in the 2010 comparatives, in 2011, headline revenues fell 9% and operating profit fell 49% relative to 2010.

** The benchmark group used comprises: Alliance Trust Savings, Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd, Equiniti, Halfax Share Dealing Service, HSBC Stockbrokers Ltd, NatWest Stockbrokers Ltd, Saga Personal Finance, Selftrade and T D Waterhouse Investor Services Europe Ltd.

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The Share Centre Limited is a member of the London Stock Exchange and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is entered in the register (www.fsa.gov.uk/register/) under reference 146768. Registered office: Oxford House, Oxford Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8SZ. Registered in England no. 2461949. VAT registration no. 596 3918 82.