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Fayrewood - Shares hit new highs

February 2005

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The shares jumped 14p to a new high of 152.5p when Fayrewood announced that results for the year ended 31 December would be significantly ahead of the previous year and modestly ahead of the upper end of market expectations. This came about thanks to strong sales growth across the group in the seasonally important final quarter. Prior to this statement Arbuthnot had been forecasting a pretax profit of Â£16m and earnings of 16.1p. Gain since our main recommendation in September 2003 (at 79p) has reached 91%. Keep holding ahead of final results and likely forecast upgrades scheduled for 10 March. ...

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Fayrewood - Results will beat forecasts (again) (August 2004)

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Fayrewood - IT distributor beats forecasts again (February 2004)

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