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Scapa - Shares briefly hit high of 295p

August 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • SCPA
  • Price:
  • 253p
Scapa’s final results pleasingly (again) beat expectations sending the shares to a new high of 295p, albeit they’ve pulled back due to the Brexit turmoil. The highlight of the results was a 16% rise in pretax profit to £20.7m with eps up 14% to 10p. Net debt fell to  £2.6m (2015: £3.4m).Impressively, its legacy industrial division, which supplies tape for industrial and transport applications, increased 16% at constant exchange rates to £10.7m on sales that fell 6% to £153.4m, helped by the closure of two facilities in France.Its healthcare division, which supplies advanced woundcare products and medical tapes, such as disposable adhesive pads for medical devices, i ...

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