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Renew Holdings

June 2015

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  • Epic Code:
  • RNWH
  • Price:
  • 323p
Interims were good as expected and despite tough comparables (the £22m for emergency repair work on the Rail side having boosted the first half last year), Renew made good progress. In part, the gap was filled by two acquisitions of Forefront (gas) and Clarke Telecoms (wireless telecoms infrastructure). Overall, sales were up 21% to £252.1m, pretax profits by 19% to £9.5m and earnings by 20% to 12.2p. Speaking to finance director John Samuels, he says excluding the two acquisitions, the underlying organic growth rate was 14%.The engineering side grew sales by 24% to £210m and operating profit by 24% to £9.7m  with an operating margin flat at 4.6% (H2 always sees better margins and a full period in ...

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