News & Comment
Shares in pig breeding supplier Sygen International fell more than 9 per cent this morning after the California-based group warned first half pre-tax profits would disappoint. James Crux reports.
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Pig breeding supplier Sygen International has acquired Mexico's largest shrimp breeding stock business, Super Shrimp, for £2.9 million to extend its core genetic improvement business into other species, writes James Crux.
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Pig breeder Sygen International proposes to make its first-ever dividend payment, after increasing underlying profits by 40 per cent to £13 million last year, and is expanding into shrimps, writes James Crux.
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Recommendations
If you backed CRC when Growth Company Investor recommended the company at 159p in March 2004 you are very welcome to thank us for the advice, as the shares now trade at 242p. Alternatively, and more appropriately, you could thank chief executive Alan McLaughlin and finance director Chris Matthews, the people really responsible for the dramatic turnaround at this currently high-earning and high-yielding growth stock.
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Sygen International, recommended at 38.5p back in 2003, announced encouraging profits growth for the half to December, underpinned by a US pig market at the peak of its cycle.
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Sygen, a Growth Company Investor recommendation at 38.5p, has signed the world's largest pig genetics contract with pork processor Triumph Foods.
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In just one month, online fashion and accessories retailer ASOS has risen 55 per cent from our original recommendation price to 10.88p. This very welcome upward spurt happened as chief executive Nick Robertson confirmed that the group had recorded its first pre-tax profit of £350,000 in the year to December after turnover rose 71 per cent to £7 million.
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There's a definite energy about the market at present. The ending of the war in the Gulf has collided with a better-than-expected results season (no real horror stories emerged) and a rash of MBO and takeover activity to buoy investors' spirits.
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Seafood has joined pork as the staple diet for those who feed at the shareholder trough of animal genetics expert Sygen International. The effect should be to reduce the cyclicality of the business and improve the quality of earnings.
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Sygen
NO RECOMMENDATION 21/02/2002
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Sector Articles
Although the FTSE Small Cap Index stands at 1,746.69, against 2,368.57 a year ago, and the FTSE 100 at 4,057.7 (against 5,203.4), there have been encouraging signs of late that investors might regain some value in their smaller company shares.
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