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Workspace

April 2007

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • WKP
  • Price:
  • 491p
Last September’s recommendation to buy Workspace "on the dips" has frustratingly not yet gone "live" because the provider of flexible office space to SMEs has simply traded so well that the shares have moved to a higher range and touched 517p at one point. Workspace’s results, for the nine months ended 31 December, showed net asset value (NAV) per share rising 36% to 323p, while pretax profit, including a valuation surplus of £71.6m, rose 2% to £85.6m. Stripping out the nominal property gains, the underlying profit was £6.4m. Growth came through a combination of improving occupancy and a 2.6% rise in the rent roll. Workspace also confirmed its much anticipated conversion to a REIT ...

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