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Smaller companies have continued to fare especially well during August and September and our Company Watch and Company Profile recommendations continue to thrive. The average gain of all of our 2003 recommendations is an impressive 43 per cent.
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Metalrax, the engineering outfit based in Birmingham, is the sort of company that all investors should have in long-term portfolios. While other companies may try to shoot the lights out, Metalrax contents itself with a secure, solid business model, incremental growth and, because it generates real hard cash year-on-year, an attractive, progressive dividend policy.
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Metalrax
STRONG BUY 12/03/2003
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Metalrax
NO RECOMMENDATION 22/05/2002
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Metalrax
NO RECOMMENDATION 26/09/2001
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01/06/2001
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The solid virtues of a decent, well covered dividend are once again being preached in a stock market that now wants value and nothing else. At 8 per cent, the yield currently on offer from Kings Norton-based engineer Metalrax looks about as solid as it gets.
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Metalrax
NO RECOMMENDATION 26/09/2000
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Sector Articles
As results season swept across the sector, the familiar macro themes of commodity cost hikes, higher energy costs and dollar weakness echoed throughout this challenged sector.
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London's FTSE Smallcap closed the month at 2003.77, a 22.8 per cent discount to its valuation a year ago. However, the index has shown recent signs of life, inching ahead seven per cent from 1858.19 at the start of the May to current levels. As ever, there were a number of small cap ventures vying for attention with upbeat announcements.
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Although the relative performance of London's small cap companies has held up fairly well in recent years (compared to a raging bear market), the sector still suffers from the same old problems, namely lack of liquidity and poor interest from institutions.
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