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Shaft Sinkers

October 2011

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.

The poor performance of the shares has been rubbished by results, which beat broker forecasts at every level. For the six months to 30 June turnover rose 40% to £112.3m while pretax pre-exceptional profits (excluding a one-off IPO bonus of £2.3m and the reversal of a £3.8m provision on a contract) rose 52% to £8.5m. Arbuthnot's forecasts were turnover of £90m and profit of just £5.6m. Basic eps rose 220% to 12p, while net cash was a healthy £7.2m. A maiden interim dividend of 4.4p also brings cheer.The revenue increase principally reflects the commencement of work on the major Styldrift project together with a number of smaller projects and project extensions. Profits were helped by ...

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