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Secondary Recommendation

Jarvis Securities - Good visibility of earnings

August 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:
  • JIM
  • Price:
  • 191.5p
The simple factor driving the success of Jarvis Securities, which provides outsourced financial administration services, is that it can do the non-core jobs that no-one else wants more cheaply than anyone else. As a result, comparisons are already starting to be drawn with outsourcing kings Capita, 748p and Serco, 455p. Operating from a sleepy hollow in Tunbridge Wells and with a market value of still only £22m, Jarvis may not exactly be a world beater yet. However, the company has won so much new business recently that analysts have significantly upgraded forecasts and now expect pretax profit to nearly triple from £0.6m in 2005 to £1.7m this year. Founded in 1984 by former tax and financial planning manager An ...

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