Primary Recommendation

Fulham Shore - Still expanding by 14 restaurants a year

March 2018

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.

Of the stalwarts of stock market investing, my late friend Jim Slater’s enduring appeal to UK private investors perhaps owes the most to his obvious affection for high quality but not overpriced growth companies. That is why he devised the PEG ratio, which divides the PE by the stock’s expected percentage growth rate. His subsequent analysis was simple: any share with a PEG over 1 would get short shrift while anything under 1 was worthy of much closer inspection.Veteran managementOne company that sits just outside this requirement is Fulham Shore, which is rolling out a pizza restaurant chain around the country. The PEG is 1.1 (the PE is 16.1 and growth is 15%). Close but no cigar. The busi ...

To access our archive of articles and to receive current issues you need to subscribe.

Subscribe now

Already a subscriber? Login

Eckoh - Call centre tech for secure card payments

Dart Group - 2018 well ahead. Outlook raised

Fulham Shore (May 2023)

Fulham Shore - To open 18 units this year (August 2022)

Fulham Shore (July 2022)

Fulham Shore - New site success (May 2022)

Fulham Shore (August 2019)

Fulham Shore (January 2019)

Fulham Shore - Signs of a recovery (September 2018)

Fulcrum Pharna - Set to expamd in US, Europe and Japan (July 2002)

With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

All material on this website is protected by copyright. You may use Information retrieved from the www.scsw.co.uk website for your own personal non-commercial use which means that you may not sell or copy this information to any third party without prior written consent. ISSN 1358-183X