Sunday newspaper share tips

12 April 2012

EVERY weekend, This Is Money brings you a round-up of the shares being tipped inj the Sunday newspapers. Click here for Financial Mail on Sunday's Midas column.

Sunday Telegraph

Signet
With the US market poised for recovery, and continuing consumer confidence in the UK, now is a good time to tuck away a few shares in the glittering jewellery retailer. Buy at 102 1/4p.

Hartford Group
The restaurant and bars business (2 1/2p) is embarking on a new business of rolling out tailored bars in regional towns and cities. Former SFI finance director James Kowszun and Slug and Lettuce director Sheila McKenzie are at the helm and it is a team worth backing. Buy.

Severfield-Rowen
Take a look at the structural steel group Severfield-Rowen (296p). The news looks good for 2002 with a number of high-profile contracts, including the entire structural steel work for Heathrow's Terminal Five, starting to come through.

Homestyle
Sales and margins have improved at the furniture and textiles retailer and the group is planning to install 54 new Kitchen Studio concessions in its Rosebys and Harveys stores to broaden their appeal. Buy at 342 1/2p.

Wigmore Group
A small flutter on the small facilities management company Wigmore Group (3 3/4p) could be profitable. It is negotiations with several clients which if successful could see it double or triple in size over the course of the year.

Observer

Smith and Nephew
The financial performance of medical devices group Smith and Nephew (424 1/2p) is finally living up to the promise of its products with sales up 19%. Its shares may interest anyone looking for a solid business with excellent long-term growth prospects.

Sunday Express

Inchape
The car importer and distributor is planning to expand its UK operations and was recently linked with a bid for rival car dealer Sytner Group. The shares, at 647 1/2p, do not look expensive.

Bunzl
The support services group, whose activities include paper supply and plastic manufacturing, is close to entering the blue chip index. And at 462p, the shares have room for growth.

Arcadia
Top Shop-to-Dorothy Perkins group's shares are still in fashion despite discontinued bid talks with 20% shareholder Baugur. Cost ratios and margins are improving and half-year profits are on course to meet expectations. Buy at 290p.

Marlborough Stirling
Analysts see the mortgage, life and pensions software group improving as the leading provider of quotations to independent financial advisers. Buy at 215p.

Gyrus
Shares in medical equipment group Gyrus have been healthier of late after a year on being on the sick list. The group has broadened its strategy beyond minimal access to open surgery and the shares are a longer-term buy at 260p.

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