Celebrus Technologies raises final dividend but swings to loss
Celebrus Technologies PLC on Tuesday reported increased annual recurring revenue and raised its total dividend, but swung to a pretax loss.
Celebrus shares jumped 9.2% to 96.10 pence in London on Tuesday afternoon.
The Sunbury-on-Thames, England-based data management platform reported a pretax loss of USD976,000 for the year ended March 31, compared with a USD7.3 million profit for the previous year.
It also reported an adjusted pretax profit of USD224,000, down 97% from USD8.7 million but an improvement on the USD200,000 pretax loss it forecast in early April.
Group revenue fell 39% on-year to USD23.6 million from USD38.7 million, slightly above Celebrus' expectation in April of approximately USD23.3 million. Software revenue declined 10% to USD20.3 million from USD22.6 million.
Celebrus annual recurring revenue, which focuses on Celebrus software licenses and managed services, rose 10% to USD15.0 million from USD13.6 million. Group ARR, which covers its broader recurring revenue base, including third-party and legacy software licenses, rose 8.0% to USD20.3 million from USD18.8 million.
Celebrus proposed a final dividend of 2.41 pence per share for the period, up 3.9% from 2.32p. This brought the total dividend to 3.39p, up 3.7% to 3.27p.
Looking ahead, Celebrus said it is well-positioned to convert its strong customer retention performance and growing new business pipeline into ARR growth in the current financial year.
"Financial 2026 was a year where our platform and our people proved their quality, but in which new business didn't perform where we needed it to," commented Chief Executive Officer Bill Bruno. "We've made real structural changes in response, not just tweaks, and going into financial 2027 we have a focused commercial team, a genuinely differentiated AI-enabled platform, and a pipeline that's building well.
"We're in a strong position and we're determined to show it in the numbers."
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