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Volex - Shares hit new highs

July 2010

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  • Epic Code:
  • VLX
  • Price:
  • 160p
The shares spiked to a new high of 166p after Volex announced final results marginally ahead of expectations. Although revenues fell 14% to £229m, pretax profit rose 22% to £10m, helped by a massive surge in gross margins from 15.9% to 20.2% as the fruits of previous restructuring and reorganisation kicked in. Eps jumped from 2.8p to 9.3p, helped by a low tax charge. Also encouraging was the halving in net debt from £14.8m to £7.6m. Volex has now reorganised to focus on four core sectors: telecoms / datacoms, consumer, healthcare and industrial and all are now recovering strongly. In its latest note broker, Charles Stanley expects Volex to further improve margins by raising the proportion of Volex designed connectors and assem ...

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