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Incepta - Shares could rocket when IPO window reopens

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.

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Incepta, which provides a range of  public relations and below-the-line marketing services, was a real star of the last Bull Market, with the shares up eleven fold from their lows.  The company grew rapidly  through a series of acquisitions, often funded through earnouts.  This policy initially worked well while the share price was flying high, but compounded with a dive in its markets and rising debt levels, investors came to see the earnouts as amonkey on its  back and,  adjusting for the recent consolidation issue, the shares dived from a high point of 915p in March 2000 to hit a low of 50p  in March this year.  Incepta has since bitten the bullet and launched a rights issue.  This h ...

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