AltX-listed engineering firm Ansys lifted headline earnings per share by 25.6 percent to 13.71 cents for the year ended February, it reported on Wednesday.

A final dividend of four cents per share was declared, compared with 3.23 cents a year ago.

Revenue rose 54.5 percent to R122-million and profit before tax increased to 52 percent to R26-million.

Ansys supplies electronic equipment to Transnet and Metrorail, and has also secured contracts from local and foreign defence manufacturers and in the air transportation industry.

Ansys completed four acquisitions last year – buying Emerging Signals, Optocon Systems, Quadsoft Ltd and Airport interface Technologies for around R50-million in cash and shares – and Holloway said the company remained on the acquisition trail.

"We have a cash pile of R20.6-million and a demand for our shares which we are ready to deploy on the right acquisitions," he said.

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