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MWB Business Exchange - Serviced office provider enjoying surging occupancy and prices

January 2007

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:
  • MBE
  • Price:
  • 140.5p
We briefly touched on serviced office provider MWB Business Exchange (MBE) last month. Since then we have caught up with chief executive John Spencer in a meeting which, if anything, has only enhanced our positive view on the company. We think MBE is a business very much in the right place at the right time with its core London office market showing a significant increase in customer activity in line with the strengthening economy. Meanwhile, with the planning system notoriously tight, there is not enough new office space coming on stream to soak up this extra demand, with the consequence being a sharp up-trend in its profitability. This is borne out by KBC Peel Hunt’s forecasts for earnings to rise over 150% from 4.1p last year to ...

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