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UDG Healthcare

July 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • UDG
  • Price:
  • 602p
UDG Healthcare, a healthcare marketing and contract drug packaging firm, is the perfect example of how exiting low margin activities and adopting highly profitable ones adds a “lorra” shareholder value, as the late entertainer Cilla Black might have said. Back in 2012 its shares were languishing at 160p but the £316m disposal of its legacy wholesale drugs business on 1 April completed a 16-year process in which management effectively swapped an activity generating 2% operating margins for two cracking businesses enjoying double-digit growth and generating 12% margins. Little wonder the shares celebrated by hitting new highs above 600p.Today, UDG is focused on two businesses; Ashfield, a healthcare marketing firm a ...

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