Secondary Recommendation

Jarvis Securities - Good visibility of earnings

August 2007

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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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