Judges Scientific Share News (JDG)

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Judges Scientific Chief Executive And Finance Director Buy Shares

Judges Scientific Raises Dividend As Revenues, Profits Grow

Judges Scientific Swings To Profit As Business Picks Up

Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

African Barrick Gold: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 137p to 145p and maintains a hold recommendation. African Minerals: Macquarie reduces target price from 307p to 280p and reiterates an outperform rating. Deutsche Bank cuts target price from 450p to 423p, while its buy recommendation is kept

DIRECTOR DEALINGS - Judges Scientific Chief, Finance Director Buy Shares

Judges Scientific acquires Scientifica

Judges Scientific has acquired Scientifica, a manufacturer of electrophysiology equipment, for 12m pounds in cash and an earn-out capped at 1.0m pounds. Judges, which manufactures scientific instruments, said the acquisition is being financed from existing cash resources and an additional £9.0m ter

Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

Antofagasta: Investec cuts target price from 892p to 691p downgrading from reduce to sell. Black Mountain Resources: Westhouse Securities shifts target price from 23p to 17p, while its buy recommendation remains unaltered. Bunzl: Numis upgrades to buy with a target price of 1505p. Capita: Jefferi

Friday broker round-up UPDATE

Afren: Nomura shifts target price from 175p to 180p keeping a neutral rating. ASOS: Nomura increases target price from 2000p to 2630p, while reiterating a neutral rating. Betfair: Panmure Gordon takes target price from 761p to 813p and leaves its buy recommendation unchanged. Brewin Dolphin Holdi

Judges Scientific posts record profits and revenues

Judges Scientific reported a 42 per cent rise in 2012 pre-tax profit on Friday on record revenues. The manufacturer of scientific instruments posted a pre-tax profit of £5.6m, up from £3.9m. Revenues climbed 34.6% to £28m from the previous year's £20.8m, reflecting organic growth of 7.5% and a s

Judges Scientific advances on trading forecast

Judges Scientific gained three per cent Thursday after the group said it maintained momentum in sales, profit and cash flow last year. In a trading update, the manufacturer of scientific instruments estimated that adjusted earnings per share for the financial year to December 31st would meet market

Chamberlin Chairman invests 75k

Castings and engineering group Chamberlin announced on Monday that its Chairman has topped up his stake in the company twice over the couple of weeks. Keith Butler-Wheelhouse acquired a total of 44,500 Chamberlin ordinary shares through his family trust, BW Family Limited (BWFL), representing 0.56%

Judges Scientific to exceed current market predictions

Shares in instruments maker Judges Scientific rose on Wednesday after the company revealed that it is confident that adjusted earnings per share for the full year will exceed current market expectations. The current consensus EPS forecast is 63.4p. In a brief statement the company revealed that

Sector movers: Weir and Avintrans lift engineers higher

Industrial engineering stocks were performing well on Monday with a well-received update from sector heavyweight Weir lifting sentiment. Weir reassured that it is on set to deliver double-digit profit growth this year despite weak order inputs and a slowdown in growth in the third quarter. While

dotDigital directors sell to satisfy institutional demand

Three directors at dotDigital, which provides digital software services to marketing professionals, have each sold four million shares in the company to partially satisfy demand for 22m shares from 'a major institution', at a price of 13p each. Chief Executive and Finance Director Peter Simmonds c

Judges Scientific´s acquisitions pushing up growth

Judges Scientific, which owns a collection of companies making scientific instruments, says its half yearly figures will show a significant improvement on last year. Organic revenue growth is expected to be "almost 8%" compared to the first six months of 2011. After including income from the recent