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White Young Green - Non-economic drivers to profit growth

May 2012

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.

  • Epic Code:
  • WYG
  • Price:
  • 50.5p
At Sharewatch we have done very well out of the consulting engineering sector in the past, notably WSP Group which was, in fact, the very first company your editor ever visited back in 1992 at around 40p. Old timers may recall it became a ten-bagger as it subsequently spread its wings into the US and Scandinavia. Scott Wilson was a more recent favourite and we recorded a 540% gain in 15 months back in 2010 after two US firms battled it out to acquire it. We're now casting an eye over White Young Green (WYG; 50.5p). Under its previous management it was built up through three dozen deals between 1997-2011 but remained overwhelmingly UK-focussed and it always came across as a bit of a generalist, rather than being a specialist in any ...

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