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Shaft Sinkers - Punchy dividend yield of 7.4%

June 2012

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For the second time in two months Shaft Sinkers has beaten market expectations. Full-year results showed eps rising to 23.4p, some 15% ahead of forecasts and 12.5% ahead of the 20.8p in 2010. Revenues rose 24% to Â£226.5m while pretax profit before an exceptional IPO bonus of Â£3.1m increased 29% to Â£16.6m. Net cash was Â£6.1m while the dividend was 7.1p, implying a punchy yield of 7.4%.While the â€œbeatâ€ was impressive Shaft Sinkers had its fair share of problems, mainly its abandonment from the Eurochem project (its largest ever contract). This was due to adverse ground conditions and with hindsight it may have been too big a jump engineering wise to expand from its South African heartland to freezing parts of Russia. The cess ...

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