Croda International Share Price (CRDA)

Very nice! Will be reinvested back into the company to continue growing!

From 510 to 5100 in 10 years! What a company. Look at the graph, slow and steady growth. No big jumps, no big dips, just a relentless path of growth. If you could give me a handful of the companies I'd retire tomorrow.

Having worked at Croda for 5 years based at Cowick Hall, I can't express what an exceptionally run company this is. They have products in so many markets that the company is so resilient to market instability factors. They've acquired some of the most innovative growing companies. The main one they got when I was there was an Italian based stem cell company. One of the things we used to say on the company profile was that 90% of the products you see will contain a croda product in them in some shape or form. They have some of the best experts in hair and skin care and equally strong sales and marketing force worldwide. I've never known a company to post such impressive growth percentages. The key thing with Croda is that they wanted to focus on high end products which they had the pricing power rather than bog standard commodities which would have been under severe pricing pressures.

My first buy of Croda was at £5.34 in January 2009, I sold at £8.93 13 months later, since then I have bought and then sold Croda at a modest profit on three occasions. Had I stuck to my original Croda holding in the last 9 years my investment would have appreciated ten fold. Just illustrates that ducking in and out of a share does not pay off.
My latest Croda buy was at just under £45, I don't intend to sell again.

In the case of Croda I forgot Warren Buffett's advice "When you find good stocks, buy them at low prices and hold them."

used to be £7 a share few years ago , i should have stick with it.