Secondary Recommendation

Hill & Smith - Shares soar above £4: a new high

October 2007

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.

Hill & Smith, which featured as a main write-up in March, has stood out in a tepid market with the shares adding over £1 since our recommendation, helped by a sharp round of broker upgrades following its interim results. The company, which has developed a lucrative niche supplying transport infrastructure products is benefiting from buoyant demand in Government transport spending and with its order book now underpinned by larger and longer-term contracts we expect investors to continue rewarding it with a higher rating. Hill & Smith was originally a small time steel stockholding business but under the auspices of chairman David Grove, formerly a mover and shaker in the world of private equity, the company has tapped his kn ...

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Hill & Smith - Shares soar above £4: a new high

October 2007

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