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Spice Holdings

March 2006

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.

  • Epic Code:
  • SPI
  • Price:
  • 273p
News of another acquisition as well as strong interim results has kept the shares near all-time highs. Spice’s latest acquisition was Baineport Engineering, which is based in Ely and provides electricity distributors with services such as network design, installation, inspection and maintenance of electrical networks. Spice is paying £4.5m-£5m, which based on Baineport’s most recent results, works out at around six times operating profit, quite cheap considering that it will move Spice’s Electricity Services division further up the value chain. Meanwhile, Spice’s interim results showed a 35% rise in sales to £55.6m, with pretax profit increasing 61% to £3m. Stripping out the £ ...

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