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Goodwin - Engineer has grown eps 693% in 9 years

November 2013

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One company that is playing its part in the UK's manufacturing renaissance is fully-listed Goodwin, which makes valves for the oil & gas industry and also supplies key components to make power stations more efficient. Both these businesses have already produced phenomenal growth, helped by the well-trodden themes of high global energy prices and huge demand from China and have helped Goodwinâ€™s eps increase a remarkable 693% to 211.8p between 2004 - 2013.The obvious question we put to chief executive John Goodwin when we spoke to him earlier this month is whether this lofty performance provides a rod for its own back but he notes that R&D spend has been cranked up to record levels (with at least 12 new products in the pip ...

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