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Mears

December 2011

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  • Epic Code:
  • MER
  • Price:
  • 224p
The shares took a tumble despite Mears, which has for so long been a stalwart of the support services sector, issuing a generally positive trading statement. This said it continues to see solid trading in its  core businesses of Social Housing and Care with the order book of £2.7 billion providing it with secured revenues of 95% of current consensus forecast revenues for 2011, 85% for 2012 and 70% for 2013.What has however blotted the copybook is its Photovoltaic solar panel installations, a sideline to its social housing work that it only entered in earnest in August. Following a decision by the government to halve the solar feed in tariff (FIT) this is no longer viable work. The lost solar profit will be £3.3m (9% of prev ...

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