Shares in road transport businesses continue to trade at record highs for the calendar year, despite a relatively quiet August and an oh-so-slight dip in the value of the MT basket of shares.
News from the firms trading on the London Stock Exchange has, in the past seven days, amounted to diddly-squat. This month has seen UK Mail cement its strong performance opening a new depot in Middleton, Greater Manchester. As of today a share is worth 630p, compared to 365p at the begining of the year. That gives it a market capitalisation of £346.5m compared to £199m in January.
Unfortunately, due to continuing technical glitches, we are still unable to bring you the graphs of share price performance (we've reported it - nothing has happened!). Here is the table of the share prices for August so far..
| 7 August share price | 14 August share price | 21 August share price | |
| Dart Group | 264 | 267.5 | 253.5 |
| Hargreaves Services | 802.5 | 829 | 821 |
| NWF Group | 120 | 121.5 | 126.5 |
| Stobart Group | 100 | 106.75 | 108.5 |
| UK Mail | 590 | 624 | 630 |
| Wincanton | 78 | 80 | 82.5 |
| Total (Pence) | 1954.5 | 2028.75 | 2022 |
And here are the market caps:
| 7 August market cap | 14 August market cap | 21 August market cap | |
| Dart Group | 382.8 | 388.24 | 367.58 |
| Hargreaves Services | 264.83 | 273.57 | 270.93 |
| NWF Group | 56.4 | 57.11 | 59.46 |
| Stobart Group | 348 | 371.49 | 377.58 |
| UK Mail | 324.5 | 343.2 | 346.5 |
| Wincanton | 95.16 | 97.6 | 100.65 |
| Total (£m) | 1471.69 | 1531.21 | 1522.7 |