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Rok Property - Construction shares still in demand

April 2005

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  • Epic Code:
  • ROK
  • Price:
  • 534.5p
We tipped Rok exactly 12 months ago at 404p and the company has not disappointed, with Rok reporting its fourth successive year of record results. Turnover was up by a third to £495m with pretax profit rising by 21% to £13.9m(before goodwill charges and exceptional items relating to the closure of Spaceage). Eps on the same basis lifted 23% to 39.9p.  Rok's most profitable activity was again its commercial and industrial property development arm, Rokeagle. Rokeagle reported an operating profit of £9m on sales of £60.3m during 2004. That was up on the £50.6m sales and £5.6m operating profit in the previous year. Margins lifted to 14.9%.     Rokbuild, the constructi ...

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