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Scott Wilson - 544% gain in 15 months

July 2010

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.

A fantastic month for the shares, which tripled after bid approaches from two separate US consulting firms. First came an 210p a share offer from URS Corporation. This was followed by rival CH2M Hill carrying out a dawn raid to acquire a 13.1% stake in the market before offering 245p a share. URS responded a couple of days later with a knockout 290p cash offer which values Scott Wilson at Â£223m.The bid activity overshadowed the results for the full year to 2 May, which showed pretax profits of Â£18m on sales of Â£340m. Pity none of the two US bidders could see the attractions at 45p in April â€˜09, when Sharewatch made them its main buy recommendation. Accept the offer. Gain i ...

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