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M&S - Interest rate cuts could galvanise shares from eight year lows

December 2008

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:
  • MKS
  • Price:
  • 215p
Once the darling of both shoppers and investors shares in Marks & Spencer are now back to levels last seen in mid 2000. Nevertheless, M&S is still a formidable company, which attracts over 21 million people to its 665 UK stores each week and has better name recognition than any other retailer. Around half of its sales come from clothing, where M&S is the number one provider of womenswear and lingerie in the UK, while it also has a growing value-for-money line in schoolwear, menswear and home. But what makes it such a talismanic company is that in general (clothing related) merchandise, as a whole it is market leader with nearly twice the share of nearest rivals Next and Arcadia. Meanwhile, the other half of M&am ...

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