If you’d invested in: Genus and SDL

Revenue is rising at agricultural consultant Genus, while multilingual content provider SDL reported a slump in profits.

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SDL (LSE: SDL) offers software services to create and maintain multilingual content. Its shares fell in August last year as it reported that half-year profits before interest, tax and amortisation had slumped from £9.5m to £4.9m over the same period in 2016. They fell again in December after SDL said full-year like-for-like profit was expected to fall short of the market estimate, as some deals weren't expected to close by the year-end. SDL, which has been refocusing on its core business, said that, while costs rose, revenue was deferred into future years.

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