Secondary Recommendation

Caretech - Looking dirt cheap

January 2012

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Caretech (CTH; 101p) operates residential care homes for adults with a physical or mental disability. The shares floated back in 2005 when it operated 435 beds in 61 homes and at the time it was making sales of Â£22m, a pretax profit of Â£3.5m and adjusted eps of 4.1p. That compares to the latest results for the year to 30 September showing sales and pretax profit have grown five-fold to Â£109m and Â£15.9m respectively whilst eps has grown six-fold to 25.3p. Despite a slight recovery in the share price since announcing these results, the shares are trading on a prospective PE of 4.0 compared to a PE of 22x when they floated.Headquartered in Hertfordshire, Caretech now operates 1,403 beds in 200 homes and in a market that comprises ...

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