MT Tracker 20 February

Looking at this week's share prices it is easy to pick out Hargreaves as the best performing company in road transport. And you wouldn't be far wrong, if you're measuring it over the past four weeks. The upturn is pretty stark. But it doesn't tell the whole story...

Let's take a look at Hargreaves performance over the past 12 months...

Not quite as impressive. Short-term gains against long-term losses.

But it's not just Hargreaves suffering like this. Take Wincanton for example:

Virtually the same performance.

The worry is that the FTSE All Share Index is currently at a 52 week high and has risen 9.18% in 12 months.

Here's the share price performance of the MT Traker '8' in the past four weeks.

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And here is the market capitalisation of our MT '8'. The good news? Both combined share price and combined market-cap is rising slowly.

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