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Volex - Investment driven by localisation

August 2024

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Volex (VLX; 349p) has just reported its FY24 results and it’s turned out to be a cracker of a year. Its traditional business supplying power cords for laptops and white goods may have been languishing but the group is doing well from the newer areas targeted by chairman Nat Rothschild, including data centre cables, cables for medical equipment and the newly set up Off-Highways division. As it was, Volex finished FY24 with sales of US$912.8m, up 26%, of which organic growth was 6.9%. Adjusted pretax profit rose 31% to US$77.1m, while eps climbed 12% to 33.7 cents. Free cash flow stood at US$18m, leaving net debt at US$121m. This period saw the Medical and Complex Industrial Technology divisions as the stand out performers in term ...

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