Primary Recommendation

DX Group - Parcels shipper benefiting from Covid related pre-Christmas surge

December 2020

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One of the major consequences of coronavirus is that we are ordering more goods for home delivery than ever before both for work and to keep boredom at bay and even shares in struggling Royal Mail, 252p, have doubled from their April lows after it revealed its parcel division had increased sales by 33% in the five months ended 31 August. A smaller logistics firm catching my eye has been DX Group, a leading provider of next day delivery services in the B2B and B2C markets in the UK and Ireland. I found finance director David Mulligan in fine form when we spoke over the month, with DX having just announced final results on 17th September that were strong enough to trigger upgrades to forecasts. As Mulligan explains, the company is part way ...

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