Longtop Financial Technologies (LFT) is growing
fast as tech-support supplier to China’s financial services companies,
Investor’s Business Daily reported.
Ranked #1 in banking IT market share at 6%,
Longtop supplies its technical services to China’s Big Four state-owned
behemoths and many other banks and insurance companies, IBD reported.
The bank IT solutions market in China is expected
to grow at a compund annual rate of 18.5% between 2009 and 2013, but Longtop is
growing faster. In its fiscal first quarter ending June 30, revenue rose 71.6%
year-over-year to $48.9 million, according to IBD.
Longtop’s software revenue makes up about 80% of
overall revenue and grew 56.8% from the earlier year to 31 cents a share.
Management expects revenue of $233 million for the fiscal year ending March
2011, up from $169 million in the prior year, reported IBD.
Longtop Financial was the July Cabot Stock of the Month at 32. The stock closed Thursday at 36.