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Lords - Well oversold

February 2024

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One share that looks close to its earnings trough is Lords (LORD; 55p), a leading distributor of building materials with a “buy and build” strategy. The chairman sees value, having bought 92k at 52p this month to take his holding to 229k and it looks a pretty decent entry against the 95p float price in July ‘21 from which the shares went on to romp away to 145p. You might think I am going to make a buy case based on forthcoming interest rate reductions, an improvement in the construction sector and a return to peak earnings, which would drop the PE into low single digits. But no; the more immediate short term trigger is that, as I write, the government has backtracked on its ‘boiler tax,’ which was set to fine boiler makers for n ...

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