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Premier Technical Services - Provider of specialist safety services enjoys 50% eps upgrades

November 2016

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The support services sector has been under the cosh due to problems particularly at Mitie, which is focused on low skilled services like mainstream cleaning and security where competition is fierce and operating margins are only c. 5%. MITIE has also taken a multi million pound hit from the national minimum wage and cited a slow-down in local Government business. In such an environment, however, even the good businesses get dragged down and shares in PTSG, which provides specialist services for commercial buildings such as fall-restraint systems for working at height, electrical testing, fire prevention and high level cleaning, have come sharply off a recent high of 97p.One vexed question we asked CEO Paul Teasdale when we spoke to ...

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