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Real Good Food - Dropping coverage

December 2005

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We had expected shares in Real Good Food to bounce once Chairman Pieter Totte had done the rounds to institutional investors to explain his strategy for the acquisition of sugar merchant Napier Brown Foods. Unfortunately, the opposite has happened and the shares have slid to a new low of 96p. One of the reasons for Real Good Food’s under-performance is that its shareholders had originally hoped to see it grow its earnings quickly through a number of small but earnings enhancing deals. However, the Napier Brown deal was simply too big and even worse, was wholly financed through a massively dilutive share issue, increasing the share capital by 384% to 68.3m shares. In fact the enterprise value of the enlarged company, includin ...

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Real Good Food - Shares are due for a bounce (October 2005)

Real Good Food - Acquires Napier Brown Foods (September 2005)

Real Good Food (July 2005)

Real Good Food - Shares posied for rise after results (May 2005)

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