Sunday newspaper share tips

12 April 2012

EACH week, This Is Money brings you a round-up of who is being tipped in this weekend's City pages. Click here for the Financial Mail on Sunday's Midas column.

SUNDAY TIMES
Swedish boss Rolf Borjesson has been restructuring Rexam, focusing it on the more attractive parts of the packaging industry. It is pushing for promotion into the FTSE 100 Index. The shares are at 475p but Merrill Lynch gives it a fundamental value of 557p. Shares in computer games magazine Future Network, at 65 1/2p, have further to run. After a miserable couple of years, the group has cleared its debts and the year has begun well.

AWG, owner of Anglian Water, admitted last week that it had overpaid for troubled construction business Morrison, and the path to turn itself into a business support services group with a ring-fenced water business has not been smooth. But the attraction for investors is the dividend yield and the prospect of a £500m return of capital. The shares are at 550p.

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Business software firm Staffware is seeing its investment in research and development paying off. At Friday's closing price of 345p the stock can be seen as selling at a bargain price. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein has a 12-month target of 549p. Buy now and play the waiting game.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Toby Courtauld, the new boss of property group Great Portland is young, bright and ambitious and worth backing. Rumours that the group would go private have dogged the company for years but Courtauld insists a management buyout is not on the agenda. The shares, at 286p are tipped a buy. Merchant Retail, owner of The Perfume Shop, has announced good results and intends to double its size. Keep buying the shares, at 85 1/4p.

Take a look at International Brand Licensing, which floats on the Alternative Investment Market on Wednesday at 40p, raising about £2.5m and valuing the company at £11m. The shares are tipped a buy.

After years of disappointment, heating, plumbing and pipeline equipment distributor BSS finally appears to be coming good. New management has stripped out costs and edged up the thin margins. The shares, at 507 1/2p are tipped a buy.

SUNDAY EXPRESS
Furniture retailer SCS Upholstery's market value has nearly doubled in eight months. Trading is encouraging and the group has plans for expansion. A rating close to 10 times next year's earnings does not look demanding for shares, at 270p.

After several thin years investors have found their appetite for food processor Cranswick, whose market value has trebled in 18 months. However, there's still room for improvement in the shares, at 986 1/2p.

After early promise following its Aim float in 2000, shares in Mediwatch, the medical and diagnostics group have been poorly for 18 months. But with sales expected to soar this year and the company getting closer to breakeven, the shares are worth a punt at 16 1/2p.

Malcolm Group, formerly Grampian Holdings before it sold the Edinburgh Woollen Mills retail business, is looking to its logistics operation to drive profits growth. The prospects for growth should attract more interest in shares, at 94p.

Engineering consultancy White Young Green should continue to see orders boosted by demand for private finance initiative projects in sectors such as hospitals, schools and transport. The shares are worth a look at 180p.

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