New campaign for increasing brand awareness could put pressure on costs in the short term The preliminary report for 2013 that the publicly listed CFD broker Plus500 (LON:PLUS) has released yesterday, have caused quite a dramatic share prices spike in London trading. The main points that we already outlined were the revenue doubling over 2012 (even…
Read moreQ4 revenues alone are totaling just over $50 million compared to $20 million in Q3 One of the leading publicly traded brokerages listed in the UK, Plus500 (LON:PLUS) has reported its preliminary results for 2013 and the numbers are staggering. Revenues at the company increased by 105% year-on-year to $115.1 million, while net profits almost…
Read morePlus500 CEO Gal Haber hits the $500 million milestone, as Plus500 continues focus on the UK market. Had we mentioned to any of our readers six months ago that CFD broker Plus500 was really worth $1 billion, we likely would have been laughed at. Well, it doesn't seem like a joke any more. With its…
Read moreShares of the company are now trading up by more than 75% since its IPO in July CFD broker Plus500 (LON:PLUS) is seeing its shares rise more than 16% in today’s trading after issuing a trading update which states that activity at the brokerage had remained high after the 17th of October, when it announced…
Read morePlus500 market value now tops £375 million ($600 million). CFD broker Plus500 has seen its shares (LON:PLUS) continue to climb steadily since Plus500 announced Q3 results earlier this month, and on Tuesday (October 29) set an important milestone. Plus500 shares rose 7% on Tuesday, crossing the £2 barrier for the first time, to close at…
Read moreCFD broker Plus500 now up 45% from its July IPO valuation. This has got to be whetting the appetite of every privately held retail forex broker contemplating going public.... CFD broker Plus500, which along with Hong Kong broker KVB Kunlun broke the nearly 3 year drought in retail forex IPOs this past summer, has seen…
Read moreIn its first financial report since its IPO in July, Plus500 sees its shares barely react, trading up 0.6%. CFD broker Plus500 has reported its first financial results as a public company, and they were (in our view) quite impressive. Virtually everything at Plus500 -- Revenues, EBITDA, Net Income, Revenue-per-Client (ARPU) -- showed a large…
Read morePlus500 IPO offering oversubscribed, size increased by 50%, share to begin trading Wed July 24. CFD broker Plus500 has completed a successful IPO roadshow, and increased the planned size of its offering by 50%, from $50 million to $75 million, at a company valuation of $200 million. The company's shares will begin trading this coming…
Read moreStock market continues to like shares of Forex brokers. As the equity markets in the US continue to set new highs, shares of publicly traded Forex brokers have not been left behind. For the first time since going public in December 2010 (for $14 per share), FXCM saw its share price briefly hit $17 on…
Read moreHow does Plus500's proposed IPO compare with existing forex industry public market valuations? LeapRate Exclusive.... The past two weeks have seen some extraordinary IPO activity in the retail forex industry. After more than two and a half years of quiet -- FXCM and Gain Capital (Forex.com) were the last two forex brokers to go public,…
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