In Norcros’s first half, the company delivered improved profitability, made significant organic business investment and completed an earnings enhancing UK acquisition. Merlyn is a highly complementary business and a logical addition to the business portfolio. Taken together, we raised our current year EPS by c 4% and by c 7% and c 9% in the following two years, with dividends nudged up also. The share price has performed well on this newsflow but Norcros still represents good value, in our view.
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