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Crestchic - New name for Northbridge Industrial - two eps upgrades this year

July 2022

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  • Epic Code:
  • LOAD
  • Price:
  • 191.5p
It’s been 16 years since I first wrote on Crestchic, which became the new name for Northbridge Industrial Services this month and although I haven’t written much on the shares in the past seven years, I have been keeping a weather eye on them. The problem in the past with this one has always been that there were widely deviating performances from the group’s two component parts. Whilst the Crestchic bit, which mainly leases ‘loadbanks’ for testing standby generators, has recently recorded its highest pretax profit level since 2014, the shine has repeatedly been taken off this by the other side of the group, Tasman, which rents drilling tools for the oil & gas sectors and had absorbed investment but been bumping along the botto ...

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