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Kentz - Ex-cash prospective PE just 8

December 2012

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Although the shares have struggled to make headway this year following the sale of 15m shares at 430p by a company owned by two non-exec directors as well as the departure of Kentz' long-time chief executive they have staged a rally following strong interim results. These showed a 9% increase in revenues to US$704m, while pretax profit rose almost 36% to US$51.2m, helped by pretax margins rising sharply from 5.9% to a record 7.3%, partly thanks to a â€œsuccessful close-outâ€ of some contracts. Eps increased 4.5% to 28.1 cents, while net cash gained 36% to US$240m (129 pence per share).Against the backdrop of strong oil prices and high capital spending from clients Kentz, which is involved in the erection of accommodat ...

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