shares in atoss software ag rose monday after the company posted an increase in revenue in the first three quarters and backed its sales and earnings forecast for the whole of 2022 the german developer of workforce management software said that according to preliminary figures group revenues increased by 18 to 819 million euros 808 million from january to september mainly driven by growth from its cloud business earnings before interest and taxes for the nine months rose to eur2161 million from eur1856 million while net profit was eur1375 million compared with eur1267 million in the same period a year earlier as of sept 30 the return on sales in relation to operating earnings stood at 26 above the forecast of 25 for the whole year atoss said the company said it expects to slightly exceed its guidance for the full 2022 which includes total revenue of eur110 million and an ebit margin of over 25 it added that it sees the ebit margin rising to at least 30 by 2025