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Goodwin - Order book hits new high

March 2014

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  • Epic Code:
  • GDWN
  • Price:
  • 3600p
It's a mark of Goodwin's quality that even faced with a few hiccoughs it still made good progress, with pretax profit growing 18% to £12.4m and eps rising 24% to 131.3p for the six months to 31 October. This was achieved from a 4% increase in sales to £71m but were it not for delays on certain contracts, caused by changed order requirements and slow processing of documents for approval, Goodwin would have increased turnover 14%. Nevertheless, the company, which makes valves for the oil & gas industry and also supplies key components to make power stations more efficient, notes that the order book is at a new historical high and it should at lease maintain its profit growth rate in the second half. Aside from ...

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