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Impellam - Prospective PE of 4.5

March 2011

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  • Epic Code:
  • IPEL
  • Price:
  • 271p
Signs that we are going to receive a Budget later this month that promises to support growth could be good news for deeply out-of-favour Impellam (IPEL; 271p) where its formerly high levels of debt and a controlling shareholder in the form of controversial Tory donor Lord Ashcroft (with a 57% stake) until recently had cast a tall shadow over the shares. Shares in the recruitment business have already doubled in the past twelve months to value the company at £122m but because Impellam has been paying down debt faster than the rise in its shares (debt fell from £70m to £18m in 2010), the shares are just as cheap now as they were then. By cheap we mean C-H-E-A-P with broker Cenkos forecasting a pretax profit of £35.5m and eps of 59.7p f ...

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