Macro 4 plc (the ‘Group’), the leading global software company represented in every major market worldwide, today reports its audited preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2007:

Key points

• 5th year of underlying profit* growth on a like-for-like basis

  • £7.9m (£7.1m 2006) PBTae under IFRS at constant exchange rates;
  • £7.2m after Foreign Exchange effect
    
    
• 58% of total revenues remain highly predictable and recurring
  
  
• Continuing prudent cost management
  
  • Underlying operating costs reduced further by 6% to £23.3m (£24.8m 2006)
    
    
• Full year dividend increased 7%
  
  • Increased to 7.75p per share (final dividend 5.25p / 5% increase)
    
    

Systems Management Solutions ('SMS')

• Double digit new business revenue growth in SMS
  
• Up 24% to £7.7m (2006 £6.2m) at constant exchange rates;  up 18% to £7.3m after Foreign Exchange effect
• Continued new customer wins achieved
  
  
• Sustained our solid OEM relationship with IBM
  
  
• Launch of Applications Performance Portal (A.P.P.)
  • Secures entry into high growth Java performance tools market

Document Management Solutions ('DMS')

• Closed global partnership agreement with Xerox – significant potential revenue generator
  • Strengthens effort into the large European and US markets for these solutions
    
    
• Won first partnership deal with Dell in the UK
  
  
• Won first partnership deal with Computacenter in Germany

Commenting on the results, Ronnie Wilson, Group Chief Executive Officer, said: "In the last twelve months we have further refined our corporate structure which has allowed us to operate as a more streamlined, robust and flexible organisation. This, combined with our increasingly strong product offering and invigorated sales efforts, has allowed us to achieve our fifth successive year of underlying profit growth. Business development has also been significantly encouraged by partnership deals signed with Xerox (worldwide), Dell (UK) and Computacenter (Germany). We look forward to reporting on further progress in the coming year."

* Profit before taxation, amortisation and material one-off items pre IFRS and FRS20   Share-based payment adjustments