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Kooth - US$188m contract win

August 2023

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  • Epic Code:
  • KOO
  • Price:
  • 335p
Shares in Kooth, the digital mental health services provider for children and the under 25s, surged by over £1 after it announced a massive US$188m four-year contract with the California Department of Health Care services. Contemporaneously it raised £10m gross, through a placing at 300p (9% of enlarged share capital) to recruit the staff to fulfill the contract and provide funds for additional investment. In my May note I said you should expect an upgrade from California but this dwarfs even  my wildest hopes and leaves old forecasts for sales of c. £24m, £28m and £31m for FY’23-’25 trailing in the dust. Top-slice some profit if you want, but remember California alone allocated US$4.76 billion for child and youth behav ...

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