Sunday newspaper share tips

By This Is Money
Updated: 09:24 EDT, 19 February 2006

EACH week, we round up the main share tips from the Sunday newspapers. Below are the tips from the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Express. Read Financial Mail's share-tipping column, Midas, here.

Sunday Telegraph

MINEDR Xstrata looks good value at 1701p after analysts raised the stock's target price from £14 to £20. Booming prices for thermal coal, copper and zinc are generating huge amounts of cash for Xstrata and shares look cheap in comparison to the rest of the sector.

It is a good time to bank profits in fashion retailer Ted Baker as shares have risen 25% since October to 542.25p. The high street chain saw sales increase almost 11% over Christmas but with official figures showing weak trading for the retail sector in January, the slowdown in spending in the UK remains a major concern.

Amstrad delivers its full year results this week, and with chairman Sir Alan Sugar predicting the company to beat analysts' profits forecasts for 2005, the stock is good value at 203p.

Vaccines are back in favour and as such Allergy Therapeutics looks a buy - albeit a risky one - at 87.5p. The company, spun out of pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline in 1998, focuses on developing vaccines against allergies triggered by dust mites and pollen.

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Sunday Express

SHARES in retail group Kingfisher are ripe for selling at 225p after the B&Q owner revealed a 9% slide in like-for-like fourth quarter sales in the UK.

Investors should sell shares in high street retailer Woolworths - which closed at 35p on Friday - as the company struggles to make significant profits from annual sales of £1.75bn.

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