MT Tracker 12 June

Tomorrow I will be speaking with Wincanton chief executive Eric Born as Britain's second largest road transport operation (or is it?) reveals its latest annual accounts. The most important part is - can the company turn a profit and for much of the past 12 months it has promised "good progress" in its strategy to return to “sustainable profit growth”. Before then its been a week of scalping - shares in the transport tracker are either flat, or down, across the board.

Instead the share prices over the past six weeks have started to resemble a bell curve, peaking at the end of May, before dropping off.

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Just to note, the prices are being taken after we had to strip Rentokil out of the Tracker data when CityLink conducted an MBO.

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