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Volex - Shares have gained more than Â£2

July 2011

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Volex, which we recommended as a â€œbuyâ€ in April last year at 105p, has produced a fine share price performance, recently hitting a new high of 358p after better than expected results. The company, which makes power cords and cable assemblies, has enjoyed the fruits of a restructuring pushed through by chief executive Ray Walsh and final results showed revenues rising 38% to Â£316m and pretax profit up by 89% to Â£13.1m. Eps was up 130% to 20.9p, way ahead of broker Charles Stanley's original forecast for 13.6p at the time we alighted on Volex just over a year ago. Meanwhile, net debt fell from Â£7.6m to Â£4.6m. Volex enjoyed strong revenue growth in all its sectors, its most important being consumer, up 41%; telecoms / d ...

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