sydneycomputershare ltds shares rose as much as 12 in early trade wednesday hitting a record after the worlds biggest shareregistry company upgraded its annual guidance amid firming expectations of global interestrate rises the australian company posted a net profit for the six months through june of us921 million compared with us726 million a year earlier reporting on tuesday after the market had closed computershare said its socalled management epsa key measure of performanceis likely to rise by about 9 onyear it had flagged a 2 rise in august the stock was last up 79 at 2150 australian dollars us1532 and had traded as high as a2231 its previous intraday record was a2105 three weeks ago shares in computershare traded as low as a819 in march 2020 firsthalf revenue rose by 59 to us116 billion due to growth in employee share plans and a us767 million contribution from the a750 million acquisition of wells fargo  cos corporate trust business which completed in november computershare said the unit had performed better than expected the average forecast by analysts had been for a us47 million net profit from us115 billion in revenue according to data compiled by factset stripping out the corporate trust unit margin incomeinterest earned for funds held for dividendsfell by about 15 yet computershare said margin income was expected to rise as global central banks begin hiking interest rates amid inflation stoked by issues including labor costs and snarled supply chains margin income fell by 53 in the same period a year earlier when those banks were easing monetary policy computershare also said conditions for its us mortgage services business were improving macquarie in a research note to clients this week said the lifting of foreclosure restrictions and return of refinancing levels to longterm averages looked supportive