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James Fisher - Eps forecast upgraded 6%

April 2014

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Having woken up last December, shares in marine support services group James Fisher have subsequently motored from Â£11 to over Â£15, helped by forecast busting final results. These showed revenues, pretax profit and eps increasing 14%, 18% and 19% respectively to Â£414m, Â£41.4m and 65.6p. In spite of spending Â£18m on acquisitions net debt fell almost Â£9m to Â£54.3m and net debt / ebitda was just 1.0 times (2012: 1.2 times).Marine support, which rents out fenders and mooring equipment and facilitates ship to ship oil transfer activity, increased operating profit 13% to Â£18.3m, driven by strong growth in South East Asia while it also performed its first LNG transfer, positioning it nicely for work from shale gas activity. ...

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Sports Direct - Bonus targets made tougher

James Fisher - Oil price decline takes its toll (October 2015)

James Fisher - Resilient results in spite of oil weakness (May 2015)

James Fisher - Gain to date: 40% (October 2014)

James Fisher - Buys Testconsult (August 2014)

James FIsher - Shares hit new highs (October 2013)

James Fisher- Marine suport services firm targeting aquisitions (June 2013)

James Fisher - Unaffected by falling energy prices (May 2009)

James Fisher - IMS in line with expectations (January 2009)

James Fisher - One-off problems now behind it (October 2008)

James Fisher - Marine support services firm in hunt for acquisitions (December 2007)

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