Totally earnings surge as Covid-19 fuels demand

Totally reported record annual earnings and revenue after the healthcare provider’s services were in demand during the Covid-19 crisis.

Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation rose 25% to ยฃ5m as revenue increased 7.4% to ยฃ113.7m. Totally declared an unchanged final dividend of 0.25p a share, taking the annual payout to 0.5p a share, also unchanged.

The company swung to a pretax profit of ยฃ56,000 from a ยฃ3.4m loss a year earlier when it had ยฃ2m of exceptional costs.

Urgent care revenue rose 9.2% to ยฃ105.4m as demand for NHS 111 services leapt and planned care revenue fell 38% to ยฃ5.2m. Insourcing revenue tripled to ยฃ3.1m.

Chairman Bob Holt said: “The year was impacted throughout by the Covid-19 pandemic and as a trusted partner of the NHS the teams at Totally were part of the frontline resource providing care. Demand increased on an almost daily basis.”

Totally shares fell 6.3% to 39.8p at 11:59 BST. The shares had climbed to their highest level since October 2017 before the results.

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