Interim Results

ADVFN.COM PLC
12 April 2001


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                             12 April 2001


ADVFN.com PLC


Interim Results for the Six months ended 31 December 2000
Chairman's Statement

We have now completed our first year as a public company and I am pleased to
report that we are ahead of the plans and targets, that we set ourselves 12
months ago. We have in this period not only matched our competitor's offerings
and traffic, but surpassed them. This makes us the UK's leading private
investor Web site.

ADVFN is now an increasingly recognised brand amongst the industry as well as
private individuals. This is helping us grow our revenue base in the next
phase of our development. . Our income has been steadily increasing throughout
the year as our subscriber base has grown. We have strengthened this process
by taking the bulk of our advertising sales in house since the period end and
this is proving an important move. Over the past year we have introduced many
new features to the service including our unique Level 2 share information
offering, Free unlimited real-time service, Interactive Charts, News (RNS &
AFX), Quotes, Alerts, Trades, NewsMon, our own Fundamentals, Data downloads,
Toplists, Real time Portfolio and WAP Mobile phone service.

We have a strong team developing ADVFN further and our success is the result
of their hard work and effort. While we continue to add new features to the
service our focus has shifted to continue the process of driving revenue
through our growing usage. We currently have sufficient traffic to grow the
company significantly.. We are pleased to have achieved all this in the worst
stock market conditions in recent history and feel we are well positioned to
maximise the opportunities available to our business and expand our growth
potential moving forward.

Unlike many public companies, whose businesses are hard to see in action,
ADVFN can be explored at your leisure, simply by logging into the site at
http://www.advfn.com. If you are not already familiar with the site we urge
you to try us out and see for yourself what has been achieved.



Michael Hodges
Chairman



Managing Director's Statement

It is just over 12 months since ADVFN listed on the AIM market. We have
achieved a considerable amount during this short period and we look forward
with confidence to the next stage of our growth. We have seen consolidation
amongst our competitors, but we have steered a steady course of expanding the
brand, its subscriber numbers and revenues using a low cost base and strong
management.  The Financial Services sector has been one of the success stories
of the web and our forward looking approach is giving us new opportunities in
this market place.



Financial Websites

Our UK website (ADVFN.com) continues to outperform our expectations. We
launched two new services namely free real time prices and our professional
level 2 premium service. The take up of these services was above our forecasts
and continues to grow today. Our page impressions, currently at 40m pages per
month (internal figures for March 2001), makes us one of the largest 'players'
in Europe and our position as No. 1 Financial website in the UK was recognised
by the award of Best Private Investor Website at the recent Shares UK 2001
awards.

Our growth comparisons are impressive on a March to March basis, both our
subscriber and page impressions are up tenfold and our revenues are up
sevenfold. We have continued to expand the range of tools and services
available on the website and will shortly be launching a new range of Premium
Services based on our own streaming technology. Our recently launched French
site (ADVFN.fr) has been well received by users and by the French financial
press. Using ADVFN's technology platform our small team has already achieved
an impressive page impression rate, as well as advertising and subscription
income. We look forward to further growth in this important European market
place.


Success Events

Success Events Ltd, our investment training subsidiary, continues to expand
both its range of courses and its turnover, making a positive contribution to
the ADVFN Group results. Its success lies in its range of investment courses,
their content and calibre of tutors. New corporate courses are being launched
which will significantly expand the current market place for Success Events.
With our move to new offices at Throgmorton Street we now have our own in
house training facility.


New Media

ADVFN has one of the widest range of UK shares data available via WAP-enabled
mobile devices. From monitoring a portfolio to accessing professional depth
Level 2 data, an investor is able to keep in touch with the markets at all
times. ADVFN's leading position in mobile shares data was recognised by Orange
who selected ADVFN as the exclusive supplier of shares data to its WAP portal
in December 2000. ADVFN will expand its range of mobile offerings and is
imminently launching PDA services. ADVFN's development of new mobile products
positions it ideally for the widely forecast growth in mobile information
services.


New products
Investor Relations
Increasingly companies are seeing the benefit of and being required to supply
the most up to date information to investors and potential investors. ADVFN
specialises in real-time data and is perfectly placed to provide real-time
solutions to companies' investor relations sites. ADVFN have embarked on a
range of new products to address this marketplace. We have already signed up
Orange and have ongoing talks with a number of other national names.

Fundamentals

As part of a commitment to produce as much unique content ourselves we formed
a fundamental data team in June 2000 which has been analysing company data.
This database is used by our websites, but will be sold as a standalone
product. We are pleased with the progress of this project, and look forward to
a roll out of products based on the data collected.


Revenue

Our revenue is in line with projections. Our current income from subscribers
continues to grow and our recent appointment of an internal advertising team
has already proven itself by achieving sales over budget. We have many
opportunities to monetise our site including sales focussed on site media
opportunities. Our ground-breaking deal with the IG Group, announced in March
2001 has shown the potential for large ticket deals and significant
sponsorship revenues.


During the period we have kept stringent control over our costs and are
continuing to reduce our monthly outgoings. At the period end we have healthy
reserves of cash, which we believe, are sufficient to fund our requirements
until we are producing positive cash flow on a monthly basis.



3DV8

3DV8 is the new product name for 2C. This is principally a Visual Data Mining
application. It was originally conceived as a tool for the financial
marketplace alone, but its format has been expanded to become a full
application allowing any user to compare visually and contrast any data in
multiple dimensions (CSV, ODBC.etc).


As part of our expansion plans, we have recently recruited a CEO for this
operation. We are delighted to announce the appointment of Bill Louden, who
has on-line, internet, and computer industry experience spanning over 25
years.  Bill was a co-founder of Compuserve and then went on to be founder and
CEO of Genie(part of GE) in the US. More recently he has been involved in
Videotel and Looksmart. ADVFN proposes to roll out 3DV8 shortly on a worldwide
basis.


Prospects


ADVFN is now an established brand in the UK and France. Our current expansion
plans, together with new product roll out, give us an exciting future.








Michael Boydell
Managing Director



For further information, please contact:



ADVFN
020 7070 0947
Michael Boydell, Managing Director



Buchanan Communications
020 7466 5000
Jeremy Garcia




ADVFN.COM PLC
CONSOLIDATED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT


                                            Six months ended         Year ended
                                               31 December 2000    30 June 2000
                                                      Unaudited         Audited
                                                          £'000           £'000

Turnover

Continuing operations                                       307              90
Acquisition                                                   -              28
                                                     __________      __________
                                                            307             118
Discontinued operations                                       -           1,120
                                                     __________      __________
                                                            307           1,238

Cost of sales                                                 -            (21)
                                                     __________      __________
Gross profit                                                307           1,217

Administrative expenses                                 (1,061)         (1,287)
                                                     __________      __________
Operating loss                                            (754)            (70)

Net interest                                                 66              41
                                                     __________      __________
Loss on ordinary activities before taxation               (688)            (29)


Tax on loss on ordinary activities                            -             (2)
                                                     __________      __________
Loss on ordinary activities after taxation                (688)            (31)

                                                     __________      __________

Loss per ordinary share                                  0.275p          0.016p




There were no recognised gains or losses other than the result for the
financial period.



Notes to the Interim Statement



1.  The calculation of loss per share is based on the loss
on ordinary activities after taxation divided by the weighted average number
of shares in issue for the period which was 250,504,323 (194,006,000 in the
year ended 30 June 2000).



2.  No comparative figures have been included for the six
months ended 31st December 1999 as those results all relate to discontinued
operations prior to the listing of the Company on the Alternative Investment
Market.



3.  The directors do not recommend the payment of an interim dividend.



4.  The financial information contained in this document
does not constitute statutory accounts within the meaning of Section 240 of
the Companies Act 1985. The financial information for the year ended 30 June
2000 is extracted from the audited financial statements for that period on
which the auditors gave an unqualified report. A copy of those financial
statements has been filed with the Registrar of Companies.



5.  Copies of this statement are being posted to shareholders
and will be available from the company's registered office at Crown House,
Linton Road, Barking, Essex, IG11 8HJ for the next 14 days.