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May Gurney

April 2007

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  • Epic Code:
  • MAYG
  • Price:
  • 307p
May Gurney has bought Staffordshire-based mechanical and electrical engineering specialists AC Chesters & Son for £5.15m. In the year to 31 March, Chesters generated a pretax profit of £0.5m on sales of £4.1m. Adjusting for £1.5m cash in the business, May Gurney is therefore paying around 10x post tax profit. Chester is a mechanical and electrical services engineer focussed on the water and sewage sector and will complement May Gurney's existing network maintenance and enhancement services in the sector. Altium has nudged its forecast up slightly to 17.6p for the current year with 19.5p next. Tipped last July at 215p; keep holding. A trading statement is expected short ...

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