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Thomas Cook - NAP for 2013 has gained 347%

January 2014

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.

Tipped as a New Year Nap for 2013 at 38p the shares have been a fantastic performer, soaring more than four-fold. The latest surge follows final results, which showed pretax profit increasing from Â£12.5m to Â£117.8m, giving eps of 6.5p, while helped by its rights issue and disposals net debt has dramatically reduced from Â£788m to Â£421m. Growth came from the UK, which improved profits from Eu3m to Eu66m, Continental Europe (from Eu62m to Eu78m), Northern Europe (from Eu97m to Eu109m) and Airlines Germany (from 22m to 48m), while losses reduced in France from Eu24m to Eu5.3m and Russia from Eu11m to Eu10.5m.The turnaround strategy includes an increase in bookings for exclusive hotels where it now has 309 and is aimi ...

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