Secondary Recommendation

Sygen - Exploiting gene marker technology

April 2002

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They say that leopards can't change their spots, but an unlikely jewel in the pig breeding sector is proving the exception to this rule. This is former basket case, Dalgety, which changed its name to PIC and now Sygen. Most investors remember the company's roots in old fashioned pig trading, which regularly got hammered by volatile swings in the pig price cycle. But nowadays this is a very different business. While still active in pig breeding, Sygen has developed a pool of technologies to improve pig herds. This was a key factor in the recent forecast beating results and the shares have responded positively, now standing 77% higher than when we first tipped them (at ...

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