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Serko warns on annual sales as first-half comes in at bottom of range, may raise capital
By Paul McBeth
Nov. 20 (BusinessDesk) - Serko, the online
travel booking company, cut its forecast for annual revenue
by 15 percent, after reporting first-half sales near the
bottom of an already reduced guidance due to late product
roll-outs and a slowing Australian economy.
The Auckland-based company expects annual revenue to be 15 percent below the bottom end of its $16 million to $18 million range provided at its annual meeting in August, blaming reduced demand for non-recurring customised software development, and longer lead-in times to commercialise new products. Serko today reported a 35 percent increase in revenue of $6.4 million in the six months ended Sept. 30, near the bottom end of the $6.3 million-to-$7 million range given at the AGM when it downgraded guidance for a second time.
Serko reported a first-half loss of $3.4
million, or 5 cents per share, compared to $3.6 million, or
6 cents a year earlier, with expenses rising 19 percent to
$10.6 million. The company pushed out its goal to breakeven
to the end of the 2017 financial year, having previously
targeted early 2017.
Last year Serko raised $17
million in new capital selling 15.5 million new shares at
$1.10 a piece in an IPO to fund its growth ambitions and
repay debt. The shares last traded at 95 cents, and have
dropped 20 percent this year.
When the company listed,
chairman Simon Botherway said the company didn't anticipate
coming back to market for more funding, and as recently as
the August AGM said there were no plans to do so, but Serko
today said it was "considering options to raise some
additional capital to support the company's growth
aspirations and the roll-out of additional product
initiatives."
Serko posted an operational cash outflow
of $1.7 million in the half, smaller than the $3.7 million
used a year earlier, with a further $460,000 spent on
investing activities. That left Serko with cash and
equivalents of almost $2.5 million as at Sept. 30.
In
August, Serko entered into a partnership with US-based
hotel-finding website Expedia, where its customers can
search the Expedia and Wotif sites through Serko's online
booking tool, and earlier this year it bought Expedia's
Arnold Travel Technology which it said would expand
Australasian transaction volumes by a
fifth.
(BusinessDesk)
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