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Update: Business improvement in action

Significant investment activity, business portfolio management and more favourable financing have all been prominent features in the year to date, with group EBIT progress also delivered in H116. We expect Low & Bonar to deliver solid H2 performance and to continue its strategy of business improvement. Our estimates are modestly higher in the current year, more so in the following two and the FY17e P/E is now below 10x with a dividend yield of c 5%.
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LOW & BONAR PLC

Low & Bonar manufactures and supplies performance materials commonly referred to as technical textiles. Co.'s business units are: Building and Industrial, which supplies technical textile solutions for applications in air and water filtration, building and roofing; Civil Engineering, which supplies woven and non-woven geotextiles and construction fibers used in infrastructure projects, including road and rail building, land reclamation and coastal defense; Coated Technical Textiles, which supplies a range of technical coated fabrics; and Interiors and Transportation, which supplies technical fabrics used in transportation, interior carpeting, resilient tiles and decorative products.

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