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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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April 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.

  • Epic Code:
  • FOUR
  • Price:
  • 1820p
The shares tumbled almost £1 despite results marginally ahead of expectations, plus an unexpected supplementary dividend of US 60 cents, taking total dividends to 118.1 cents or almost 86p.The company, which supplies promotional products such as stationery, mugs and t-shirts with the name of the client emblazoned on them, increased revenue by 12% to US$627.5m. Pretax profit and eps rose 11% and 9%, respectively, to US$42.5m and 108 cents. Thanks to almost US$25m free cash flow (2016: US$15.4m), net cash rose by US$9m to US$30.8m.While they are short of their usual 15% clockwork eps growth seen for many years, this reflects management gearing up for a new target to hit sales of US$1bn by 2022 (implying 10% compound annua ...

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