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Mears

October 2023

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.

  • Epic Code:
  • MER
  • Price:
  • 276p
Very encouraging interims from Mears, which has guided up full year expectations to pretax profit of “at least £40m” from anticipated revenues of at least £1 billion. This compares with Panmure’s 2023 forecast for pretax of £38.9m. Equally encouraging was an increase in average daily net cash from £28.4m to £57.4m, while an increased dividend of 3.7p (H1 ‘22: 3.25p) was declared. The group secured new contracts worth £175m (bid success rate: 57%) and even better is the sole remaining bidder on the large £1.5bn 12-year North Lanarkshire contract opportunity. If and when that comes in the shares could spike considerably. I am a buyer. ...

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