Secondary Recommendation

Gocompare.com - Price comparison site hoping to emulate Moneysupermarket.comâ€™s success

April 2017

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One of the UK’s most successful shares has been price comparison website moneysupermarket.com, whose earnings have tripled from 5p to 15.7p between 2010-2016, while its shares have soared from 60p to 340p. Until recently it was the only pure play in this growing market but last November general insurer Esure (ESUR; 240p) de-merged its price comparison specialist Gocompare.com and the shares have quickly climbed from 72p to 92.75p.Gocompare was founded in 2006 by a team of former Confused.com employees, and its first markets were car and home insurance. Helped by its memorable but grating adverts featuring fictional mustached Italian opera singer Gio Compario played by Welsh tenor Wynne Evans, the company soon hit pay dirt and ...

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