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DiscoverIE

October 2021

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Last year I carried a main profile on DiscoverIE, when I noted my PA Georgina referred to the subject matter as a “bit dry.” It’s the kind of dry I like, with the shares up 113% since. During the month DiscoverIE announced two acquisitions together with a placing to raise £55m at 1028p. Both deals have 20%+ operating margins versus the group average of 7.7%.Bigger of the two deals is Beacon for US$80.5m (£58.8m), a 100% US manufacturer / supplier of custom System on Module (SOM) embedded computing boards, predominantly for the medical sector. It had sales of US$28.1m in FY20 - and DiscoverIE is paying 11.8x operating profit.Separately it has also bought Antenova (UK-based designer and manufacture ...

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