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Mears

November 2014

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Mears’ remarkable unbroken record of eps growth stretching back to 2001 looks set to continue with interims showing pretax profit and eps rising 21% and 17% respectively to £18.7m and 14.3p. Visibility remains strong with 95% of consensus forecasts for 2014 and 85% for ’15 covered by long-term contracts.In social housing, which comprises a rapid response and planned maintenance service to registered social landlords, revenues fell from £378m to £365m but last year’s figure includes a non-recurring spike in sales immediately following the acquisition of Morrison. Operating margins rose from 3.7% to 4.2% driven by improving contract margins from the ex-Morrison business. Although new orders were a ...

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