Investors in () will have raked in handsome sums from their shares in the queue-busting company over the past few years.
At the turn of the decade, shares were trading at around 70p; now they stand at 436p.
Today?s full-year results demonstrate its recent success, with a number of contract wins, the ?14mln acquisition of US ticketing company accesso and the start of what could be a very lucrative business as it jumps on the smartphone bandwagon.
But chief executive Tom Burnet believes this is only the beginning for the company.
He is targeting not only the smartphone avenue, with a mobile app in the pipeline for theme park visitors to book their ride times in advance, but also the potentially game-changing Asian market.
The US and the UK leisure and entertainment markets are still growing, but at nowhere near the rate of Asian theme parks. Burnet notes that the annual growth rate of this market is upwards of 12%.
More acquisitions are also on the cards, but only if they make sense and add value to the existing business.
?I?m trying to build the largest technology supplier to the leisure and entertainment business and where we find companies that help us down that path, we?re going to go see if we can do sensible things with them,? said Burnet.
?We?ve bought a fantastic American business and the next one might be American, it might be Korean ? we?re not limited by size or geography.?
() also unveiled its final results, ending the year in rude health with more than US$2.1bn on the balance sheet, allowing it to pay a 15 cent final dividend and maintain its US$200mln share buyback programme.
Revenues for the year were little changed at US$1.16bn, while profits were down 7% at US$600mln as the group incurred higher field operating costs and depletion charges.
However, at this stage in its development, production from its fields in the Caspian Sea is the key performance indicator for Dragon.
Output rose by 10% in 2012 to 67,600 barrels a day and hit 73,500 barrels in December.
The performance was achieved against a backdrop of production problems encountered in the second quarter of 2012, which were quickly resolved.
Shares were trading 1.9% higher at 593p each.
() also featured in the small cap headlines today as it finally pulled back its hotly-anticipated tonnage and grade estimate, confirming the world-class deposit of the MB fluorspar project in Nevada.
Wardell Armstrong International, the company?s consultant, estimates that the project hosts between 85mln and 105mln tonnes of mineralisation grading between 9 and 11% fluorspar.
The report suggests the potential for at least 8mln tonnes of contained fluorspar, which is double the amount of fluorspar resources at the group?s two Scandinavian projects put together.
Shares slipped 16% to 10p.
The boss of () has called on UK politicians to expand the feed-in tariff to boost the use of fuel cells in the UK.
Ian Williamson, who is also the head of the UK Hydrogen Fuel Cell Association (UKHFCA), was one of a number of panellists at a seminar in parliament on the role of hydrogen and fuel cells in meeting renewable energy targets.
Williamson said that while politicians are becoming more aware of the environmental and economic benefits of hydrogen fuel cells, there still remained a huge amount of work to be done.
is developing fuel cells that will compete with conventional technologies such as turbines for electrical power generation. Its technology takes hydrogen created from chlorine production, biomass and coal and turns it into electricity.
Shares powered their way up 8%.
Agricultural group () had investors chomping at the bit after opening a second beef retail unit in Mozambique to help boost margins throughout its integrated beef business.
The new unit, in Tete in Mozambique, will be supplied by ?s abattoir at Chimoio, which opened in December.
Other small caps making news were , which raised the full ?50mln from its placing and open offer, , which agreed to transfer its stake in its China Global Mining Resources (CGMR) joint venture to its partner to end a legal dispute between the pair, and security specialist , which extended its US$3mln Middle Eastern contract unveiled last month.
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