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Judges Scientific - Gain to date: 731%

October 2019

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  • Epic Code:
  • JDG
  • Price:
  • 3905p
The shares soared after Judges pulled out a trump card by delivering orders to customers faster than it had been expecting to at the interim stage. This “order book compression” (order book down from 14.4 weeks to 13.2) resulted in H1 sales +9% to £40.2m and positive operational gearing resulted in pretax profit +27% to £8.4m and eps +30% to 108.7p.The UK might be in the doldrums but is only 11% of sales whilst the weak pound has seen strong order intake from the US (where sales grew 33%). The growth was entirely organic as Judges hasn’t made an acquisition since July 2017. Meeting chairman David Cicurel again it seems that with £7.4m net cash, something will be pulled out of the hat before ...

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