Share Sleuth

Sometimes results statements reveal more than how the company has performed. Dewhurst’s dip is less interesting than the reason behind it. Meanwhile, Castings surprises.

Felix Baumgartner took a risk, but the probability of failure was low. His record-breaking skydive was less of a gamble, more of an adventure. You might even call it an investment, considering the money and career benefits.

Zotefoams' proprietary process gives it a competitive advantage in manufacturing foam. The development of foams with special properties and a new foaming process may be opening markets with more products competitors will find it difficult to better.

There are two aspects to value, what you pay, and what you get. For some investors price trumps quality, but as fund managers tout consumer staple companies like Unilever and Diageo, it seems quality is in the ascendency...

Shenanigans at Eurasian Natural Resources remind investors to consider not just what kind of company they're buying but who they're going into business with.

Fast growing Intertek is the perfect company in every respect bar one, its share price. Even that might not be beyond justification.

British Polythene Industries is in an attractive business for value investors. Mundane, essential, and stigmatised because of environmental concerns about polythene, it’s likely to be overlooked by investors with more glamorous tastes.

Croda’s share price has risen by more than five times since 2005, mainly in the last few years. It’s unbroken trend in rising profit and growth stretches back to 2000 though, not the result of a change of strategy so much as increasing recognition by customers and investors that the strategy is working.

Aerospace and auto engineer Senior is a good company in a booming market.