Primary Recommendation

Inter Link Foods - Eps forecats to rise 30% to nearly 50p

August 2004

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.

As the chart on page 2 shows, shares in Inter Link Foods, a manufacturer of supermarket own label and licensed cakes have enjoyed abarnstorming performance ever since they floated on AIM six years ago. A company's share price rarely lies over such a long period and in this instance reflects Inter Link's ability to deliver rapid growth every year with unerring consistency. In the five full years since flotation its turnover has expanded eightfold to nearly Â£70m, while pretax profit has risen twelve times from Â£0.4m to Â£5m. Meanwhile, earnings have increased at a compound annual rate of 20% from 11.2p to 38.2p. So it was hardly surprising that we found chief executive, Alwin Thompson, in buoyant form, when w ...

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