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James FIsher - Shares make it over £10; gain now 93%

April 2013

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  • Epic Code:
  • FSJ
  • Price:
  • 1022p
The shares headed over £10 following excellent results for 2012. Overall sales were up 18% at £363m. Adjusting for the £20.9m book gain on the sale of the TRE assets, pretax profit and eps were up 15% at £35.4m and 56.1p, respectively. With no acquisitions during the year, the 18% headline figure reflected purely organic growth. Net debt at the year-end was £63m but with these results Fisher has spent £20m on an attractive looking acquisition. The two success drivers were specialist technical and the offshore oil. The specialist technical business led the way with operating profit up 13% to £22.4m, helped by work in Africa (the sizeable BP contract) and Asia Pacific and South America where there has been strong demand for ship-to- ...

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