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Ben Bailey - Highly successful niche housebuilder

October 2003

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.

2003 is likely to be seen as a golden era for housebuilders, with the FTSE Construction and Building Materials sector showing a 43% gain since the start of the year.  Back in July we recommended Barratt,508p one of the largest and most successful housebuilders, whose shareshave since gained a useful 19%.  However, for those looking for greater excitement in the small company arena, Yorkshire-based, Ben Bailey (market cap: £38.9m) is an excellent candidate. Ben Bailey has already put in a whitehot performance, with the shares more than quadrupling in the last 18 months.  Yet its earnings growth has rattled along at such a rate that its prospective PE is just 4.6. BenBailey is a regional residential housebuild ...

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