Primary Recommendation

Utilitywise - Salesmen numbers to grow to 400 by June

February 2014

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

We may think of every energy related business as being volatile and vulnerable to wild fluctuations but the deregulation of gas and electricity markets has created opportunities for a new breed of companies to compete against the incumbent energy suppliers (British Gas, EON, etc). For instance, the mighty Telecom Plus (TEP; 1903p), which has featured several times in SCSW, has been a relentless tortoise since we tipped the shares; never exciting in any one year but quietly compounding its gains over the long haul. Another that we think is going to perform just as well is Utilitywise but whereas Telecom Plus targets consumers, Utilitywise is targeting business customers to secure a better unit rate for their gas and electricity. Th ...

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Market Comment - February 2014

GVC - 207p in dividends since 2007

Utilitywise (May 2016)

Utilitywise (March 2016)

Utilitywise - Prospective PE of 10.1 (November 2015)

Utilitywise - Prospective PE of 7.1 (September 2015)

Utilitywise (May 2015)

Utilitywise - Fincap forecasts 25.7p for next year (November 2014)

Utilitywise - Number of salesmen forecast to climb to 720 from 427 within two years (September 2014)

Utilitywise (May 2014)

Utilitywise - Trading ahead of forecasts (March 2014)

Utilitywise - Salesmen number rises to 281 (November 2013)

Utilitywise (September 2013)

Utilitywise (July 2013)

Utilitywise - Consultant number rises to 259 (May 2013)

Utilitywise (March 2013)

Utilitywise - Sales rising rapidly (December 2012)

With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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