Primary Recommendation

Weir - Equipment supplier to oil & gas and mining sectors sees eps rocket

January 2012

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.

Weir, which makes equipment and spare parts for the oil & gas and mining industries, is in many ways the perfect share for these turbulent times. On the one hand, the company employs an attractive â€œrazors and bladesâ€ business model, in which the hostile nature of its clients' operating environment means the equipment it supplies wears out quickly and 58% of last year's turnover was derived from high margin aftermarket spare parts and servicing. But the other compelling reason for investing is that demand for its products is buoyed by the strong energy and commodity prices (propped up by a perfect storm of money printing, Middle Eastern uprisings and Ch ...

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