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Volex

August 2020

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As I had anticipated in the main write up last December, operating margins have climbed sharply from 5.8% to 8.1% in the latest year to 5 April - and that was despite the US$8m impact from temporary closures/reduced production in Q4 20 due to COVID-19. Full year sales grew 5.2% to US$391.4m and pretax profit climbed 50% to US$30.4m (eps 17.3 cents).The year has seen a massive change in mix/margin with Volex consciously eliminating US$25m of lower margin power cord products and replacing these with highly complex cable assemblies, partial and full electro-mechanical assemblies and fully integrated box builds in the medical space - here its products get used, for example, in diagnostic imaging, therapeutic machines, robotic surgery a ...

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Volex - Murat Ticaret deal completes earlier than anticipated (September 2023)

Volex - Transformational deal produces 14% eps upgrade (July 2023)

Volex - Trading ahead of expectations (May 2023)

Volex - Outperforming the market (December 2022)

Volex - Strong Q1 trading (September 2022)

Volex - To bust a billion within five years (July 2022)

Volex - EV demand helps it beat expectations (May 2022)

Volex - Enters EV infrastructure segment (December 2021)

Volex - Two directors buy shares (November 2021)

Volex - Earnings accretive US defence acquisition (September 2021)

Volex - Forecast up 5% as Medical and EV jump (August 2021)

Volex - Data centres and EV sales +38% and +193%, respectively (July 2021)

Volex - Significant beat on FY21 estimates (May 2021)

Volex (March 2021)

Volex - Three deals being worked on (January 2021)

Volex - Canaccord sets 398p price target (December 2020)

Volex - "Materially ahead of expectations"- results due on 12 November (November 2020)

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Volex - High growth and exciting (December 2019)

Volex - Five quarters of improvement (June 2010)

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