Financial information
Financial summary
Ten year history
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | £m | 1,239 | 1,425 | 1,588 | 1,872 | 2,203 | 2,516 | 2,858 | 3,106 | 3,284 | 3,329 |
| Profit before tax | £m | 167 | 195 | 218 | 266 | 301 | 358 | 424 | 449 | 478 | 498 |
| Taxation | £m | (43) | (55) | (61) | (76) | (91) | (108) | (119) | (136) | (147) | (144) |
| Profit after tax | £m | 124 | 140 | 157 | 190 | 210 | 250 | 305 | 313 | 331 | 354 |
| Shareholders’ funds | £m | 543 | 607 | 500 | 547 | 275 | 155 | 276 | 256 | 189 | (79) |
| Earnings per share | pence | 33.9 | 38.4 | 46.8 | 58.1 | 68.7 | 93.9 | 120.2 | 127.4 | 146.1 | 168.7 |
| Dividends | pence | 19.1 | 21.0 | 24.0 | 27.5 | 31.0 | 35.0 | 41.0 | 44.0 | 49.0 | 55.0 |
| Share price | pence | 638 | 491 | 778 | 949 | 760 | 1,292 | 1,592 | 1,698 | 1,946 | 1,375 |
| Shares in issue | millions | 374 | 374 | 337 | 331 | 287 | 265 | 261 | 246 | 227 | 201 |
| Shares repurchased | millions | - | - | (37) | (6) | (44) | (22) | (4) | (15) | (19) | (26) |
| Cost of shares repurchased | £m | - | - | (192) | (54) | (392) | (209) | (57) | (218) | (316) | (568) |
| Market capitalisation | £m | 2,391 | 1,840 | 2,622 | 3,138 | 2,179 | 3,425 | 4,157 | 4,179 | 4,418 | 2,764 |
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