Corporate Profile
IG Group Holdings plc offers speculative investment products to a retail and professional client base, through a number of well-known brands.
The group's principal businesses give clients the ability to trade on financial markets. Our longest established business is financial spread betting, where we are the world's leading provider (based on turnover), servicing a retail client base, primarily in the UK.
Our rapidly growing Contracts For Difference (CFDs) and foreign exchange business services retail clients and market professionals around the world from offices located in the UK, Australia, Singapore, Germany, France, Spain and now the USA.
The group also offers spread betting on sports, entertainment and political events and binary betting on both financial and sports markets. More than 90% of the group's client transactions are executed electronically.
2006-7 headlines
- Revenue up 36% at £122.0 million
- EBITDA up 34% at £70.4 million
- Strong EBITDA margin of 57.7%
- Diluted earnings per share up 33% at 14.52p
- Final dividend 6.5p per share; total dividend 8.5p per share
- EBITDA margin improvement from 54.5% in H1 to 60.3% in H2
- Successful launch of TradeSense in UK and recent launch in Australia
- Launch of PureDeal dealing platform
- Current trading is strong
The group's business has grown rapidly since the late 1990s, with revenues having grown at a compound annual rate of roughly 40% over the past nine years. We have also developed IG Group into a significant multinational operation.
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