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James Fisher - Oil price decline takes its toll

October 2015

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Our recommendation in May to take part profits at 1309p (for a gain of 38%) looks prescient in the light of recent oil price related falls, which caused a subdued set of interims with pretax profit and eps falling 18% and 13% respectively to £20m and 29.5p.Despite a good performance from three of its divisions the main bugbear was Offshore Oil, which hires and sells specialist equipment for the offshore oil industry and saw underlying profit fall 56% to £5.3m as customers delayed all but the most urgent repair activity. Marine support, which supplies strain gauges, rents out fenders and provides ship to ship transfers, produced profits of £7.4m (H1 ‘14: £7.7m) as acquisitions offset loss of a contract. ...

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Aldermore - NIMâ€ˆjumps from 3.3% to 3.6%

Cineworld

James Fisher - Resilient results in spite of oil weakness (May 2015)

James Fisher - Gain to date: 40% (October 2014)

James Fisher - Buys Testconsult (August 2014)

James Fisher - Eps forecast upgraded 6% (April 2014)

James FIsher - Shares hit new highs (October 2013)

James Fisher- Marine suport services firm targeting aquisitions (June 2013)

James Fisher - Unaffected by falling energy prices (May 2009)

James Fisher - IMS in line with expectations (January 2009)

James Fisher - One-off problems now behind it (October 2008)

James Fisher - Marine support services firm in hunt for acquisitions (December 2007)

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