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AIMprospector

another five AIM firms featured

Juicy profitsThe drinks firm putting big smiles on shareholder faces

Issue 12 April 2015

high-yielding bookmaker

confident financial services provider

ambitious animal health firm

free to private investors

maturing software business

AIMprospector

2 www.aimprospector.co.uk

Welcome again to AIMprospector, the monthly online magazine from Blackthorn Focus. An important date for AIM investor diaries: Blackthorn Focus will be running the investor event AIM Investor Focus again from 11am on April 21st at the London offices of broker finnCap. Private investors may

attend AIM Investor Focus free of charge.Blackthorn Focus endeavours to recruit some of AIM’s most successful companies to this event and again, four highly regarded AIM companies will be participating. They are: Christie Group, EMIS, NAHL and Fairpoint.

Shares in Christie Group have advanced more than 40% in the last year as the recovering UK economy has strengthened the firm’s markets. Christie upgraded earnings expectations twice in the last year.

EMIS Group reported results earlier in March. The company is a supplier of software solutions to the healthcare industry. Results showed a 15% increase in the company’s final dividend. This was the fourth successive year of dividend increases at EMIS. With a market capitalisation over £500m, EMIS is one of AIM’s blue-chip shares. It is rare to be able to meet a company of this scale at an event open to private investors and I am delighted to welcome EMIS to AIM Investor Focus.

Fairpoint also announced results in March. The company is enjoying considerable success diversifying its revenue streams away from consumer debt services. With results, Fairpoint reported a 7% dividend increase, 15% uplift in EPS and a move to a net cash position.

NAHL is the company behind National Accident Helpline. The company is essentially an umbrella organisation, marketing for a panel of solicitors under one brand. NAHL has been one of AIM’s most respectable recent IPOs. A large final dividend was announced with March’s finals.

NAHL shares, like Fairpoint, offer a considerable dividend yield. According to Stockopedia, both companies are set to yield over 5% for 2015.

To apply for a place at the event on April 21st, submit your details here: http://www.blackthornfocus.com/events/aim-investor-focus/april-2015. The event is open to private investors, fund managers, private client brokers and media. I hope that many AIM Prospector readers will join us.

AIM Investor Focus will then run again later in the year on October 15th. Contact Blackthorn Focus if you would like to be on the mailing list for details of that event.

“Enjoy this month’s AIM Prospector and good luck with your AIM endeavours.” David O’Hara, Editor, AIMprospector

ContentsWelcome ..............................p2

Benchmark Holdings............p3

Top Pick: Nichols .................p4

AIM Investor Focus ..............p6

GVC Holdings .....................p7

Idox ......................................p8

Executive Insight ..................p9

Jelf Group ..........................p10

Contacttwitter: @aimprospectoremail: [email protected]

Published by:Blackthorn Focus Limitedwww.blackthornfocus.com

AIMprospector

another five AIM firms featured

Juicy profitsThe drinks firm putting big smiles on shareholder faces

Issue 12 April 2015

high-yielding bookmaker

confident financial services provider

ambitious animal health firm

free to private investors

maturing software business

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production of salmon/trout in Norway

has increased from 200,000 tonnes in

1994 to 800,000 tonnes in 2008. That’s

a rate of increase of +10% per annum.

2014 full-year results (Benchmark

has a September year-end) showed the

considerable increase in scale of the

business. Revenues increased by 28% to

£35.4m. Staff headcount increased by

63 to 222. A further 60 staff were added

post year-end, aided by the acquisitions.

A loss before tax of £1.4m was

recorded. IPO costs accounted for

a significant amount of this, with

Benchmark reporting £1.5m of

exceptional corporate costs for the year.

Like all such businesses, Benchmark

must continue to invest in research

and development (R&D) if it hopes to

achieve sustainable growth. In 2014,

Benchmark spent £6.5m on this activity.

Most importantly, the company

reported ‘strong growth across

vaccines business’.

Benchmark remains on the

acquisition trail and regards bolt-on

acquisitions as a key part of its long-

term strategy. This will be enabled by

the £16.5m net cash balance reported

at year-end.

The shares have rewarded IPO

investors. From the forecasts issued,

substantial growth is expected from

Benchmark over the medium term.

Today, Benchmark is principally involved in the production of animal health solutions (e.g. vaccines), along with the provision of technical expertise and publications to industrial participants along the food chain. Benchmark’s strongest market is aquaculture, defined by Wikipedia as ‘the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants’.

The industry being served should

give some encouragement to investors,

given the success of similar quoted

companies such as Eco Animal Health

and Anpario.

After the IPO brought in proceeds of

£27.5m to the company, a further £70m

was raised in December 2014. This was

used to facilitate the acquisition of a

Norwegian salmon genetics company

and Stofnfiskur, an Icelandic salmon

breeding company. Stofnfiskur will

enable Benchmark to supply eggs to

commercial salmon farmers throughout

the year to enable production to meet

year round demand. The aggregation

of these activities has seen Benchmark

become the world’s second-largest

salmon egg producer.

The acquisitions target a fast-

growing market. According to

Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries,

Benchmark is one of AIM’s newer companies. The firm joined AIM via an IPO in December 2013. The company was founded in June 2000, when a food supply chain advisory organisation, RL Consulting, was incorporated. As the company grew, other firms joined the group and new divisions were created.

Benchmark Holdings (LON:BMK)

FOR

Industry supported by powerful trends

Trading well

AGAINST

Risk integrating acquisitions

High valuation

Market cap £225m

Bid:offer 97p:104p

P/E (forecast) 22.5

Yield (forecast) 0

52week low:high 78p:126p

Food science firm set to gain from demand growth

acquisitions target a fast-growing

market

Global population growth looks set to

guarantee strong demand for protein

well into the future. This will stress

the food chain for higher yields. This

augurs well for Benchmark’s industry.

Given the favourable demand

outlook and sound balance sheet, it

should not be a surprise to see the

shares trade on a premium rating.

considerable increase in scale of

the business

population growth looks set to

guarantee strong demand for

protein

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Middle East brings foreign flavour to Nichols’ fortunesFounded in 1908, Nichols plc is a soft drinks manufacturer headquartered in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside. Non-executive Chairman, John Nichols, is grandson of the company’s founder. Nichols makes significant sales into foreign markets and is a true AIM blue-chip.The company produces still, carbonate and cordial products. The best known is Vimto. The drink is sold in over 65 countries. Vimto delivers 90% of UK turnover and 100% of foreign group

sales.

Vimto was created as a herbal

tonic ‘for vim and vigour’ from

‘seriously mixed up fruit’ consisting of

grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants. It

has been consistently advertised since

WW2. Nichols expenses all advertising

costs above the line.

The company sells a collection of

other flavours under license. Nichols

produces Sunkist under license in the

UK from Sunkist Growers Inc. In 2010,

Nichols added the license for Levi

Roots’ Carribean-inspired flavours.

The company’s ten year dividend

record illustrates Nichols’ success. From

paying 8.8p per share for 2004, the

payout has since increased year-on-

year to hit 22.4p for 2014. In the last

five years, the payout has increased by

an average of 13.0% per annum. In that

time, the shares have risen from 355p

to 1,164p and 88.3p of dividends have

been paid. This rise comprehensively

beats the FTSE

100, which is up around 20% over the

same period.

For 2014, overall sales increased

by 3.5% against a

challenging UK

market (79% of

sales). Pre-tax

profits before

exceptional

items increased

14%. That 22.4p dividend was 14.2%

ahead of the prior year, comfortably

covered by earnings per share of 55p.

The profit increase came from a

combination of sales increases and

margin improvement to 23% (2013:

21%). The latter is due to changes in

the sales mix between home:overseas

and carbonated:concentrate. The

decreased sugar content of soft drinks

(reflecting the trend toward health)

assisted further.

Earnings were enhanced by a lower

tax charge of 21% (2013: 25%).

On a constant exchange rate basis,

overseas sales in 2014 showed a 7.3%

increase. Concentrate sales to

the Middle East rose 12.3%.

In some of its markets,

Nichols’ Vimto cordial

In the last five years, the payout

has increased by an average of

13.0% per annum

Nichols variations

on Vimto

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obviously cheap, such successful and

well-financed firms rarely are.

The market rating would appear

to be in-line with Nichols’ most

comparable competitor, AG Barr

(producers of Irn Bru) and broadly

similar to its larger international peers.

Nichols’ historic ability to increase

its dividend should encourage long-

term, patient investors. The significant

family shareholding (around 35%)

provides some assurance as to the

company’s long-term independence

and listed status.

occupies a strong niche as the de facto

choice of fast-breaking drink during

Ramadan. Overseas markets provide a

similar contribution to the bottom line

as the UK.

A recent litigation setback,

involving a dispute over licensing in an

overseas territory, cost the company a

containable £8.0m. As at the last balance

sheet, Nichols was carrying a pension

liability of £6.2m. The ratio of current

assets (£62.7m) to current liabilities

(£21.3m) at end 2014 was well in excess

of 2.5, which is very comfortable. There

was a cash balance of £34.5m.

Nichols is run by a focused board

of five directors. This comprises a

family representative (the non-

executive Chairman), a Chief

Executive appointed in 2013 with long

experience in the soft drinks industry,

a finance director with previous

operational experience in the company

and two non-executives with strong

competition, retailing, compliance and

financial experience.

The total salary charge for directors

for 2013 was £500k with a total

including benefits and pensions of

£758k. In the context of pre-tax profits

for that year of £22.5m it is modest and

should be noted by the remuneration

committees of all public companies.

Nichols’ focus on value over

volume has encouraged analysts to

forecast an EPS increase of around 6%

for 2015. Given the diversified sales

channels (less than 25% of sales go

through UK major retailers), growing

overseas sales and the confident

statement, this estimate could prove

to be conservative.

According to Stockopedia, an

8.3% dividend increase is forecast

for the full year 2015. The healthy

cash position gives scope for a larger

increase, closer to the long term

dividend growth rate of 13%.

Nichols is a well managed

and stable AIM company. After

restructuring in 2005-2008 it has

stuck closely to its business of soft

drinks and dispensing, subsequently

adding contemporary brands that have

a strong appeal in niche markets.

According to Stockopedia,

Nichols is one of just six AIM-quoted

companies to have increased its

dividend every year for more than

eight years and shown a compound

annual dividend growth rate in excess

of 10% over the last five years.

Nichols’ financial strength and

cash flows mean that the business’

development and dividends can

be supported without recourse to

borrowing. While the shares are not

Earnings were enhanced by a lower

tax charge

occupies a strong niche

an 8.3% dividend increase is

forecast for the full year 2015

development and dividends can

be supported without recourse to

borrowing

Nichols has produced Levi Roots

flavours since April 2011

Nichols (LON:NICL)

FOR

Strong balance sheet

Significant brand heritage

AGAINST

Challenge to grow in UK

Confluence of fortune in 2014

Market cap £427m

Bid:offer 1,150p:1,163p

P/E (forecast) 19.9

Yield (forecast) 2.10%

52week low:high 835p:1215p

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Event - April 21stBlackthorn Focus will be showcasing four AIM-quoted companies on April 21st at the offices London offices of stockbroker finnCap

Presentations begin at 11:00 on Tuesday, April 21st.

The event is free for private investors.

To apply for your place at the event, click on the button below.

Fund managers and private client wealth managers who would like to meet

the management of any of these companies should contact Blackthorn

Focus here:

Media for Fairpoint and EMIS should contact Reg Hoare at MHP Communications: reg.

[email protected], 020 3128 8793

Media for NAHL should contact James Styles at FTI Consulting on 020 3727 1000.

For Christie Group, media should contact Blackthorn Focus on 020 3239 5437.

Since first running in April 2012, twenty-six companies have participated at AIM Investor Focus. Twenty of these companies have since gone on to increase their dividend to shareholders at every subsequent opportunity. The median return on the share price of a presenting company is +19%.(data as of March 30th, 2015)

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Shares in GVC have been quoted on AIM since January 2005. Since then, the company has developed through acquisitions. The biggest change came about in 2013, when GVC formed a consortium with William Hill to purchase Sportingbet plc. Following the acquisition, William Hill took Sportingbet’s Australian operations and GVC took the rest, with William Hill retaining a call on Sportingbet’s

Spanish business.

Despite contributing only nine

months of business, this acquisition

saw GVC’s revenues increase almost

threefold, from €60.3m for 2012 to

€170m for 2013.

However, with all gambling

firms it is essential to gauge their

regulatory position. In GVC’s case, this

is particularly opaque in the Turkish

market, where it operates a B2B

(business-to-business) service for East

Pioneer Corporation, a firm registered

in the Dutch Antilles. This agreement

looks to be responsible for around

one third of GVC’s revenues. The

importance of the ‘B2B’ operations to

GVC’s bottom line is likely significantly

more as unregulated markets are

Operating a collection of online betting websites across the world, GVC endeavours to pay at least 75% of net operating cashflow out in dividends. Few AIM companies offer a comparable yield today.

German market, regardless of any local

regulatory issues.

While any company that operates

in an online market with a dominant

player (in this case, bet365) would

normally concern me, GVC is clearly

enjoying considerable success and

progressing well.

Unregulated revenues will always

be a concern to analysts and fund

managers. However, both GVC and

Sportingbet before them earned

significant long-term earnings from

the Turkish market, despite frequent

disruption of the payments processing

mechanism. Scepticism over GVC’s

quality of earnings has long been

present. This has depressed the

valuation, resulting in a high yield.

GVC’s directors would almost

certainly be arrested were they to

ever visit Turkey. I expect that the

high dividend payout and low amount

of retained cash in the company

is a deliberate strategy to protect

shareholders should the company ever

be sued.

Betting firm yields one of AIM’s biggest dividends

GVC Holdings (LON:GVC)

FOR

Big yield

Serving growth market

AGAINST

Material earnings risk

High director rewards

Market cap £293m

Bid:offer 472p:479p

P/E (forecast) 9.1

Yield (forecast) 7.70%

52week low:high 372p:505p

importance of the ‘B2B’

operations to GVC’s bottom line

is likely significantly more

frequently highly profitable.

It is not likely that Turkey will

regulate online gambling. However,

the situation appears to be more

encouraging in Latin America, where

GVC operates the betboo brand in

Brazil. Management claim that this

division continues to grow impressively

and enjoys a market-leading position.

Online gambling has been

transformed by mobile and in-play

offerings. These two trends lead to a

greater number and less savvy bets being

placed. Any firm with a strong mobile and

in-play offer is therefore enjoying fast

growth. This has a transformational effect

on company margins.

Encouragingly, GVC is making large

strides in both in-play and mobile. The

last results from the company revealed

that mobile was generating 35% of

sportsbook revenues. In-play delivered

73% of sports revenues.

In addition to the Sportingbet

sports business, GVC also owns

CasinoClub, an online casino facing the

German market. This service is licensed

in Malta. Malta’s EU status enables

GVC to legally run CasinoClub in the

Unregulated revenues will always

be a concern to analysts and fund

managers

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is the majority of the EIM business.

Around one third of Idox’s EIM sales

are to the oil and gas sector, with the

company listing a number of majors

among its clients.

2014 full-year results (Idox has

an October year-end), laid plain

management concerns for earnings

over the medium term. Shareholders

were warned to expect little growth

in public sector IT spending as

governments step back from investing

in anything but ‘frontline services’.

Prospects in the oil and gas sector

are limited as majors withdraw from

major capital spending projects.

It seems especially inauspicious

that both sides of Idox’s business have

simultaneously slowed. This leaves

me with concerns over just how

predictable profits are at the company.

However, Idox does appear to

have a strong position in its markets

and management have previously

delivered strong growth in a more

favourable climate.

Idox’s past record is one of the most

impressive on all of AIM. In the last five

years, sales have nearly doubled, with

Quoted since 2001, Idox today trades around the top 10% of AIM companies by market capitalisation.

Idox reports figures with respect

to its two divisions: Public Sector

Software (PSS) and Engineering

Information Management (EIM).

In 2014, EIM made around half of the

sales and profits delivered by PSS.

According to the most recent

results statement, the PSS division “is

the leading applications provider to UK

local government for core functions

relating to land, people and property,

such as its market leading planning

systems and election management

software”. The fact that the PSS

operations recently delivered “the

majority of electoral services for the

Scottish referendum” gives credence

to Idox’s claim to its market standing.

The EIM division offers a document

control service, frequently deployed in

heavy industry. EIM’s software product

is used to control the thousands

of engineering and management

documents that relate to major

upgrade, construction or installation

projects. The North American market

Idox is a well-established technology firm. The company develops ‘information management’ solutions that are sold into the UK public sector and regulated engineering industries.

One of the few: AIM software company paying dividends

net profit following a similar trajectory.

Dividends at the firm have increased

in every year since 2006. Only fifteen

AIM-quoted companies have managed

more than eight years of successive

dividend increases.

Idox is a quality AIM operation,

currently trading through sticky

markets. Debts at the company

appear entirely manageable, with cash

generated from operations more than

ten times 2014 interest payments.

The current share price appears to

suggest that despite the gloomy outlook,

Idox will deliver significant earnings

growth this year and next. Alternatively,

the market may simply have concluded

that the company is of such calibre that

a premium rating is deserved.

IDOX (LON:IDOX)

FOR

Successful operation

Strong market position

AGAINST

Soft markets

High earnings growth assumed

Market cap £144m

Bid:offer 39.5p:40.5p

P/E (forecast) 12.6

Yield (forecast) 2.00%

52week low:high 35p:47p

EIM made around half of the sales

and profits delivered by PSS

warned to expect little growth in

public sector IT spending

Dividends at the firm have

increased in every year since 2006

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For inheritance tax (IHT) purposes, shares in

almost all AIM-quoted companies qualify

for business property relief. Provided that

they have been held for more than two

years, such assets do not count towards the

taxable assets of an estate.

This makes AIM shares very attractive

for anyone looking to reduce the tax

charge paid on death.

Principally due to the compelling IHT

planning attractions, our firm are active

investors in AIM-quoted companies.

However, at Fundamental Asset

Management we are frequently surprised

how the senior management of many AIM

companies, not to mention their advisers,

fail to recognise the benefits of having IHT

planning investors as shareholders.

Contrary to the short term trading

mentality of many investors in AIM, those

investing for IHT planning purposes are

not inclined to jump ship at the first

hint of trouble. While investing for IHT

planning purposes does permit trading and

reinvestment in different AIM securities

within the two year qualifying period, it

becomes very hard to keep track of things

if trading activity is too great. Of greater

significance is that the two year qualifying

period actually encourages patient long

term investing.

In order to secure the compelling tax

reliefs, IHT planning investors are also

obliged to remain fully invested in the

respective AIM shares, notwithstanding

market conditions. It is for this reason that

so many specialist IHT managers delivered

such incredible returns in 2009, post the

financial crisis. In being obliged to avoid

trying to time the market’s rebound they

were in it from the beginning.

The ISA rule changes in August 2013,

which permitted the inclusion of AIM

shares in ISAs, also encouraged a large

number of new IHT entrants into AIM

as legacy portfolios were rebalanced.

While companies recognised the greater

attraction of AIM for many investors

from this time, many failed to appreciate

the principal source of this new money,

specifically the more elderly investor who

was simply rebalancing his/her portfolio.

Those AIM companies that are

aware of their attraction to more elderly

investors are typically ones with large

family ownership, such as Robinson plc, the

packaging group. Robinson can trace its

roots back to the 1600s when the Robinson

family set up and ran pottery businesses.

The group’s packaging business itself dates

back to 1839. With such a long history, it

is no surprise that Robinson has collected a

number of property assets over the years,

some of which are not currently used in the

packaging business. However, the Group

has always intended to sell its property

portfolio and has never actively invested

in or developed it. Unlike numerous AIM

quoted companies, who seem to have

little knowledge of the IHT attractions for

UK investors, Robinson has a helpful page

on its web site ‘Tax & AIM’, clarifying the

reliefs and why it believes that it qualifies as

‘properties held are residue from previous

trading activities and there is an active plan

to dispose of them.’

Camellia, the global agriculture and

horticulture group (whose activities also

extend to engineering, food storage and

distribution, banking and financial services)

moved to AIM from the Main Market in

2014. Camellia has its origins in the 19th

century, its foundation having been a very

small quoted company on the London

Stock Exchange in the early 1960s, called

the Sephinjuri Bheel Tea Company Limited.

The Group’s move to AIM was driven by

the belief that AIM is a market appropriate

for a company of Camellia’s size and

nature, and is a market that will attract

new investors.

The official announcement explaining

the reasons for moving to AIM very helpfully

guided investors by stating that while

management believed that Camellia would

qualify for the purposes of UK inheritance

tax business property relief, based on the

nature of its assets, it did not consider that

full relief at 100% would be available.

It was again encouraging that a

substantial Group (Camellia employs

over 73,000 people worldwide) had

acknowledged the attractions of its AIM

quote for IHT planning investors and was

able to offer guidance.

Before the market has another wobble

it would be wise for the management of

AIM companies to more fully embrace this

patient, supportive category of investor.

Christopher Boxall is co-founder of Fundamental Asset Management Ltd. Fundamental invests in AIM companies to meet clients’ Inheritance Tax planning purposes. Chris is also co-founder of website Investors Champion which has developed a search tool for identifying qualifying AIM companies.

www.fundamentalasset.com www.investorschampion.com

Executive Insight The value of IHT planning shareholders

Chris Boxall

Fundamental A

sset Managem

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Jelf Group is a provider of financial services and advice to businesses and individuals. Jelf provides insurance broking services, alongside employee benefits and financial planning.This is achieved through a network of more than 30 offices across Great Britain.

Jelf was brought into being more

than twenty-five years ago and its

shares have been quoted on AIM for

over a decade.

Some of Jelf’s growth along the

way has been due to acquisitions of

similar businesses. Jelf integrates these

firms, typically realising significant

synergies. In the past, this has been

achieved using cash and/or shares.

Its activities make Jelf easily

compared with other stocks such as

Mattioli Woods and Brooks Macdonald:

two of AIM’s most successful

companies of recent years.

Jelf thrives when businesses are

forced to outsource all or part of their

pension/benefits provision. In a growing

economy, the requirements of SMEs in

particular grow quickly. Jelf profits as its

services are typically required for the

long term. Jelf’s offering is also ‘sticky’

as the upheaval involved in moving to

another supplier would be a significant

distraction for a business.

Jelf’s most recent results, announced

in December of last year (Jelf has a

September year end), showed a big

advance on the previous year. Although

revenues were ahead just 8%, a

significant margin increase led to profit

after tax surging 40% to £6.5m, with

fully diluted EPS 35% ahead at 5.4p.

The total dividend for the year was

increased from 1.5p to 2.0p — the

third successive year of increases.

Debt came down fast, assisted by

strong cash flows. In the twelve months,

net debt fell from £13.5m to £5.7m.

Jelf’s 2014 performance was

boosted by the first full year’s

contribution from 2013 acquisition

The Insurance Partnership. However,

the are signs that further strong

growth is still to come.

Jelf is particularly bullish about

the possibilities offered by pension

changes, with final results declaring “major changes in the pensions regime, create considerable freedom for individuals to make their own choices regarding their pension savings. It is the most radical change to pensions in almost a century and will provide a significant opportunity for advice-led businesses such as Jelf”

Consensus market forecasts reflect

Jelf: a thriving services firm

Jelf Group (LON:JLF)

FOR

Well-positioned for change

Longstanding success

AGAINST

Competitive marketplace

High valuation

Market cap £153m

Bid:offer 177p:183p

NAVps 18

Yield (forecast) 1.20%

52week low:high 110p:188p

margin increase led to profit after

tax surging 40% to £6.5m

thrives when businesses are

forced to outsource all or part of

their pension/benefits

this expectation, with underlying EPS

projected to increase by 85% in 2015

before moderating in 2016.

The company remains on the

acquisition trail. At the end of December,

Jelf announced the acquisition of

Beaumonts Insurance, a deal that

is expected to see gross written

premiums increase by around 25% and

immediately enhance earnings.

Shares in Jelf have risen

significantly since results were

announced. On a P/E basis, the current

valuation is ahead of the market.

However, Jelf is a successful company

with several economic and industry

changes already working in its favour.

underlying EPS projected to

increase by 85% in 2015

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