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T Clarke

September 2021

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The shares are heading back better towards their high after T Clarke’s results unveiled a strong 30% rise in turnover to £138.2m. Contract mobilisation costs and revenue timing, alongside investment, lowered operating margin from 2.1% to 1.7%, although pretax profit still grew 12% to £1.9m (eps: 3.6p). Net cash fell from £7.5m to £2m but that reflects a £3.5m one-off VAT regime change and it still has £27m liquidity.But the real story was the order book rising to a record £503m, up 25% year-on-year, while it enjoys a strong pipeline of preferred bidder work. Broker Cenkos says it trades at a discount to peers on a prospective PE of 9.1, falling to 6.7 based on unchanged fo ...

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