Secondary Recommendation

WSP - Environmental consultancy side going great guns

October 2007

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It seems quite remarkable that after soaring more than twenty-fold in the past five years shares in engineering consultant, WSP have only dribbled 5% off their all-time high. Such strength partly reflects its remarkable ability to sustain high rates of growth, while the fact that brokers have been forced to upgrade their forecasts for the third time this year has also not gone un-noticed. Another reason is that WSP is now a FTSE-250 constituent and has a wider analyst following. Although originally starting out twenty years ago as a small Surrey-based building consultancy WSP has wasted little time in growing into a multi-faceted international consultancy, with operations across Europe, the US and Australia. Aided by a nu ...

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