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Transport Groups Recover

May 2002

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.

The transport groups, particularly those with bus, coach and railoperations, are usually regarded by investors as solid and defensive onaccount of their long-term franchises to run particular routes. With rival operators rarely allowed to compete on the same lines, thereturns on investment can be lucrative, while the long-term life ofeach franchise, typically 7-20 years, gives investors the reassuranceof being able to predict future levels of profit with a decent degreeof security.   That said, an unprecedented number of problems have combinedto upset the valuations of most quoted  operators last year aspassengers (both commuters and tourists) were scared off by the Hatfield rail disaster, Railtrack’s de ...

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