RICHARD BRANSON BALLOONING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!

The quad-play operator is generating plenty of cash from enthusiastic customers.

Television, broadband, telephone and mobile company Virgin Media (LSE: VMED) has delivered its first annual profit, managing a net income of £77.1m on revenues of £4.0bn in 2011.

Earnings per share were 24p, placing the company on a somewhat heady price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 55, with a dividend yield for 2011 of 0.7%.