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IC had an article on Israeli shares yesterday, here is an extract of that article which mentions Leadcom (www.investorschronicle.co.uk)
Leadcom - the best performer
Telecoms services provider Leadcom is the best-performing share of all the Israeli stocks that we have looked at. It made its debut on the markets in April at 32p, and now stands 59 per cent higher at 51p. Chief executive Arik Alcalay says that his company's performance is down to a number of factors. The first of these is valuation. Leadcom came to market at 18 times earnings, a respectable rating for a fast-growing company in the telecoms services sector. "It was a commercially-priced proposal," he says. "We wanted our investors to make money as well." But for Mr Alcalay, initial valuation is soon superseded by the firm's trading performance. "We delivered what we had promised. Obviously, the market was suspicious before the first results came out - once our interims were published that suspicion cleared." "To me, it is all about delivery - if a company performs as it should, the share price will follow," he says. Leadcom's maiden interims, for the first half of this year, make impressive reading, with revenues up 61 per cent and gross profit up 125 per cent. And the company made its first substantial bottom-line profit - $4m as opposed to $414,000 in the previous year. But Mr Alcalay is quick to point out that the results are no one-off. This is Leadcom's fourth consecutive year of top-line growth, and seventh consecutive quarter of profit increases. The current year is offering yet more opportunities, as new technologies - requiring new infrastructure - arrive in the emerging markets that Leadcom services, and as its established presence on the ground leads to new opportunities and clients. It has now added Siemens, Motorola and Alcatel to its list of partners. "The growth pattern," says Mr Alcalay, "is here to stay."
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