LONDON (ShareCast) - (Sharecast News) - Computacenter updated the market on its trading for the year so far on Thursday, reporting that the positive trading it experienced in the second and third quarters had continued into the fourth quarter to-date, with "good visibility" of its likely December sales.
The FTSE 250 company said given that, it was upgrading its outlook from that it gave at its interim results on 9 September.

It said it was now expecting its adjusted profit before tax for the year ending 31 December to be at least £190m.

"At this time, customers are understandably polarising between those negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic that are naturally temporarily reducing, or delaying, their investment in technology, and those that feel this is the appropriate time to invest heavily in their digital transformation to prepare for the future," the board said in its statement.

"We are very proud that so many customers have turned to Computacenter and our services at these difficult times and we would like to thank our employees for stepping up to our customers' challenges."

Computacenter said its next trading statement was scheduled for 22 January.

At 0944 GMT, shares in Computacenter were up 3.24% at 2,292p.

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