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December 2020

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Plus500, which allows customers to trade in Contracts for Difference (CFD) through an online platform, reported Q3 revenue of US$216m, well ahead of forecasts for US$150m and 96% ahead of the same period a year ago. EBITDA also rose a strong 91% to US$134m, against consensus of US$75m.New customers rose 90% to 46,238 while active customers (trading in the last 12 months) increased 78% to 197,976. Average revenue per user jumped 10% to US$1,093. Given the shift to higher value customers, as previously telegraphed, the average user acquisition cost rose 16% to US$1,066. Nevertheless EBITDA margins were still a strong 62% (Q3 ’19: 63%).The cash mountain continues to grow, up from US$588m at 30 June to US$723m and will bene ...

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December 2020

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