Primary Recommendation

Volex - High growth and exciting

December 2019

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When I wrote about GAN (GAN; 135p) in the September issue, I included a quote from the colourful chief executive Dermot Smurfit along the lines of, “my business which has sucked for so long could suddenly become the world’s best business.” He was referring to the growth that is coming about as the US sports betting market opens up. I think the management at Volex would be forgiven if they too were talking in the same feisty manner. Their business has also sucked for years but in the last five it has been busy reinventing itself as a specialist in electronic manufacturing services. Five years ago Volex had a focus on providing power cords for computers and printers, a dog-eat-dog business with a wafer thin margin and too high a cus ...

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Market Comment - December '19

CentralNic - 44% eps accretive deal

Volex - Organic sales and margins ahead of expectations (November 2024)

Volex - Investment driven by localisation (August 2024)

Volex (May 2024)

Volex (December 2023)

Volex (November 2023)

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)

Volex (August 2020)

Volex (May 2020)

Volex - Five quarters of improvement (June 2010)

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