Stephan Shakespeare
Co-Founder, CEO & Director
Good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming and thank you for coming at first — my first one back. And I hope that it won’t be too long before we see the rate of growth we’ve had before. We’re at 388 — GBP 389 million at the moment with a 16% margin, with 8% increase in reported — in adjusted EPS, and — sorry, in reported EPS.
And the key thing here is that we’re showing stable growth. Now stable growth sounds a bit of a contradiction, but actually, it represents the 2 things we’re trying to do this year. One is to return to stability. And that means fixing things. And the other is to invest in growth. So we’re not seeing yet the kind of leaps that we have had in the past, but we are investing for that very, very thing.
And just to remind you of that story of YouGov’s growth, there’s a huge graph before this, which shows something like 10 years of growth, and we’ve just come off that. And we need to be reminded that this is fundamentally a growth company. And it’s a growth company because we have always been led by innovation. And when we stop innovating, we go flat. But we are back on the road to innovation, something that I will
