Gamble of the week: an undervalued outsourcer

This processes outsourcer is great at saving big corporations money. It's shares have dipped of late, but now is the time to buy in, says Paul Hill.

Although perhaps best known for its sponsorship of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, Xchanging is also pretty adept at helping is clients to sail through treacherous waters. It is a pure-play business process outsourcer, enabling corporations and governments alike to get more from their services at a lower cost. Outsourcing is nothing new, but even so, it is still a growth industry expanding at 5%-10% a year.

And Xchanging is good at it. The group has secured many blue-chip companies, such as Allianz, Deutsche Bank and Eon, under long-term agreements. Its activities include invoice processing, payroll and procuring office supplies. The top-ten clients equate to around half of its business, and first-half revenues were split as follows: 54% from Britain, 23% from Europe, 17% from the Americas and 6% from Asia.

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.