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Mayborn - Outdoor children's play acquisition very eps enhancing

September 2005

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:
  • MBY
  • Price:
  • 434p
Still tightly controlled by the Samuel family, dyes-to-baby products group Mayborn has been a remarkable performer in the past five years with a near seven-fold rise in the shares from the low achieved in 2003. In the five years from 2000 to 2004, pretax profit has grown from £0.6m to £8.7m. Earnings over the period have climbed from 1.8p to 29.2p.But there is by no means any sign that the rise is over. Chief executive Michael Samuel has signalled his continuing ambitions by buying Tube Plastics, a business which is a leader in children’s outdoor play equipment, which is going to help lift profits by almost a fifth this year and even when his hands should have been full with that acquisition, he points out that i ...

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