Secondary Recommendation

Volex Group - Interesting recovery play

April 2010

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There's an old City saying that small cap shares only enjoy their place in the sunshine once but Volex, which makes power cords and cable assemblies, is shaping up to be the exception to this rule. First time out, the shares roared from £4 to nearly £21 early in 2000 as buoyant telecom markets made for a surge in its products, many of which were used in the assembly of base stations, which sprung up to service the growth of mobile communications in the dot-com boom. As we now know, that exuberance was never sustainable and the shares duly took a hammering in the last decade. However, following the arrival of a new team, the business was restructured and prospects have turned positive once again. And the good news is th ...

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