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James Fisher - Resilient results in spite of oil weakness

May 2015

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Shares in marine support services group James Fisher rebounded sharply after final results, which showed sales and pretax profit rising 8% and 13% to £444.8m and £46.9m respectively. Eps rose 13% to 74p beating forecasts for 72.8p, while the dividend rose for the twentieth consecutive year to 22p (2013: 20p). In spite of three acquisitions costing an initial £13.9m, net debt only rose £8m to £62.3m.The strongest side was specialist technical, which owns Divex dive systems and remote handling equipment for nuclear markets. Operating profit rose 56% to £13.3m, with good growth in all areas and nuclear seeing a notable pick-up after several quiet years.Offshore Oil, which hires, customises and ...

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