Secondary Recommendation

Scapa - Industrial tape firm expanding into higher margin medical markets

March 2012

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.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett once famously remarked that turnarounds seldom turn and while the odds are generally stacked against recovery situations the rewards for success can be amazing. For example, industrial scaffolding business, Cape, 440p, a TMI portfolio favourite, could have been picked up for as little as 6p at its nadir in 2002. Quite often the market does not alight on recovery situations until several years down the line and that can provide an â€œarbitrage opportunityâ€ to buy when the forward rating is still low. We believe that industrial firm Scapa, a manufacturer of adhesive tapes, is exactly one such company. Operating through a network of manufacturing facilities in 13 countries across Europe, Asia and ...

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Scapa (February 2019)

Scapa - Another acquisition (November 2018)

Scapa - Another broker upgrade (August 2018)

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Scapa - Numis has three year target price of £8 (February 2018)

Scapa (December 2017)

Scapa (October 2017)

Scapa - Industrial tapes and healthcare group planning acquisition push (August 2017)

Scapa - Gain to date: 493% (June 2017)

Scapa - Gain to date: 380% (February 2017)

Scapa - Shares register new high of 304p (December 2016)

Scapa - Shares briefly hit high of 295p (August 2016)

Scapa - Shares hit new high of 252p (June 2016)

Scapa - Healthcare enjoys 20% profit growth (January 2016)

Scapa - Another upgrade sends shares over Â£2 (July 2015)

Scapa - Shares soar to over 170p (June 2015)

Scapa - Acquires First Water (April 2015)

Scapa - Industrial and medical tapes business forecast to grow eps 46% by 2017 (January 2015)

Scapa - N+1 Singer upgrades forecasts (July 2014)

Scapa - Healthcare side growing rapidly (February 2014)

Scapa - Medical tapes grew profits 53% (July 2013)

Scapa - New 5.1p eps forecast for 2014 (July 2012)

Scapa - Self-help measures drive another upgrade to forecasts (May 2012)

With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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