Stobart Group kicked Monday off with a bang, winning a 15-year biomass contract with Western Bioenergy. But investors seem to have shrugged their shoulders at the news, which refused to budget the share price from 123p. Maybe we could find a bit more success elsewhere, as it has been a busy week for the MT Tracker sextet.
Perennial success this year has been UK Mail Group. It said last Thursday that its parcels business continues to post double-digit growth in the B2C sector. Not a bad result for the company, but shares fell week on week, from 595p to 580p.
How about NWF Group, which said its network restructure at subsidiary Boughey Distribution, was making “progress as planned”. Putting its house in order saw its shares fall from 129.5p to 128.5p...
The trend isn't micro, it's macro. The FTSE 250 has drifted south thanks to the US government shutdown (even though it is hard to believe that this event has anything to do with the performance of the MT Tracker). The FTSE 100 has fallen today to a three month low because of some poor results at Sainsbury's and Tesco. Events entirely out of the control of our six companies - even if they do work for them.
Here are the week by week share prices.
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And the market caps:
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