Daily Mail share tips: Adventis and Alexon
Shares analysis from the Daily Mail's City team. The spotlight falls on advertising and marketing group Adventis and fashion chain Alexon.
Adventis
VITAL STATISTICS (full-year trading statement)
Pretax profit: £1.255m +57%
Dividend: 0.23p +5%
One-year share price performance: +54%
Advertising and marketing group Adventis is growing fast in its chosen fields - healthcare, financial services and property.
It advises top firms such as Pfizer and Glaxo on marketing drugs and Barclays, Standard Life and HBOS on pensions and insurance products. Its property clients include Savills, which owns a 32% stake.
Chief executive Charles Phillpot believes the healthcare side, bolstered by the £2.6m acquisition of Leapfrog Medical, has reached a credible size to serve the multinationals. He has his sights on a bigger acquisition. In such deals, at least half of the price is held back for future performance. He sees no sign of a slowdown, saying: 'Our clients are buoyant.'
Broker Arbuthnot expects full year profits of £2.5m to put the shares (up 3½p at 55½p) on 13 times earnings, falling to 11 times in 2008. The yield is 1.4pc.
VERDICT: Buy
Alexon
VITAL STATISTICS (full-year trading statement)
Pretax profit: £1.255m +57%
Dividend: 0.23p +5%
One-year share price performance: +54%
Advertising and marketing group Adventis is growing fast in its chosen fields - healthcare, financial services and property. It advises top firms such as Pfizer and Glaxo on marketing drugs and Barclays, Standard Life and HBOS on pensions and insurance products. Its property clients include Savills, which owns a 32% stake.
Chief executive Charles Phillpot believes the healthcare side, bolstered by the £2.6m acquisition of Leapfrog Medical, has reached a credible size to serve the multinationals.
He has his sights on a bigger acquisition. In such deals, at least half of the price is held back for future performance. He sees no sign of a slowdown, saying: 'Our clients are buoyant.'
Broker Arbuthnot expects full year profits of £2.5m to put the shares (up 3½p at 55½p) on 13 times earnings, falling to 11 times in 2008. The yield is 1.4%.
VERDICT: Buy
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