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Goodwin

February 2009

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As a manufacturing firm exposed to the oil & gas and process industries Goodwin might seem an obvious candidate to put out bad news but instead its interim results revealed quite the opposite. Not only did it achieve a 56% increase in pretax profit to Â£6.8m from sales that rose 55% to Â£46.8m in the six months to 31 October but it even noted that despite the global economic environment the order books remain buoyant, with the backlog standing at over Â£60m. This has led the directors to expect activity to remain in line with the first half. Meanwhile, eps in H1 rose 66% to 67.4p.Goodwin is involved in three main activities, all of which made good progress in the period. Around one third of turnover is derived from the manufac ...

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Goodwin - Family-run engineer eyes recovery in oil & gas markets (November 2018)

Goodwin - Eps rises 25% to 264.4p (October 2014)

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Goodwin - Strong trading momentum helped by weak pound (August 2009)

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