Personal Group, the employee benefits providers, have announced their first set of interim results since listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.
For the six months to June, underwriting income rose 3% to £5.34m from £5.19m during the same period last year.
Pre-tax profit jumped 27% to £2.12m from £1.67m and earnings per share increased 24% to 4.6p from 3.7p.
The company declared an interim dividend of 1.65p.
Personal Group listed in November last year at 75p per share. The share's middle price at 15:45 on September 25 was 85p.