The name Dowlais (DWL) may not mean a huge amount to you but there is a good chance something it has made is sitting on your driveway.An April 2023 spin-out from industrial turnaround specialist Melrose (MRO), Dowlais is effectively the car engineering part of GKN. An institution in the UK industrials and engineering space, GKN was controversially purchased by Melrose for £8 billion in 2018.Melro

A healthy number of lesser-known businesses have done very well in share price terms since coming to market in the last two years, with price appreciation reflecting strong operational performances or the fact they sate voracious investor appetite for a particular theme.Readers will be familiar with high-profile post-pandemic newcomers on the London Stock Exchange (LSGE) trading above their issue

Product testing and calibration specialist Exova (EXO) posts a robust set of results despite headwinds in the oil and gas industry.Helped in part by acquisitions, sales increased 7.9% to £296.5 million and organic growth was also solid at 2.3%. That?s despite sales in Exova?s oil and gas-facing unit, which represented 22% of revenue at the start of 2015, falling back 11.2%.Visibility on organic g

Currency headwinds and a large pension deficit could hold back automotive and aerospace engineer GKN (GKN) in 2014. Both argue against following finance director Adam Walker's £250,000 share purchase (19 Mar).The executive swooped following last month's full-year results (26 Feb), when the FTSE 100 company warned 'adverse currency could provide a significant translational headwind'. GKN derives a

FTSE 100 automotive and aerospace engineer GKN (GKN) slips 3.7% to 399.5p despite posting2013 profits marginally ahead of expectations and guiding for further progress this year.The fall should probably be seen in the context of a near 60% rise in the past 12 months, concerns over the impact of weakness in the military aerospace industry and a warning that 'adverse currency could provide a signifi

With a barrage of 'sell' ratings on valuation grounds, it would only take a small bit of bad news to stop Whitbread's (WTB) stellar rally in its tracks. The leisure giant has been in a rising trend for the past 12 months as consumers flock to its Premier Inn hotels and Costa coffee outlets. A fourth quarter (Q4) trading statement shows the business to be resilient with 2.7% like-for-like sales gro