Shares in focus: Travis Perkins - building momentum

Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins is well placed to profit from Help to Buy. So is now the time to buy the shares? Phil Oakley investigates.

This builders' merchant is well placed to profit from Help to Buy, says Phil Oakley.

Travis Perkins traces its roots back over 200 years, but today's company arose from the merger of Travis & Arnold and Sandell Perkins in 1988. The group has been very successful at growing on its own, as well as buying competitors and entering new markets.

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Phil spent 13 years as an investment analyst for both stockbroking and fund management companies.

 

After graduating with a MSc in International Banking, Economics & Finance from Liverpool Business School in 1996, Phil went to work for BWD Rensburg, a Liverpool based investment manager. In 2001, he joined ABN AMRO as a transport analyst. After a brief spell as a food retail analyst, he spent five years with ABN's very successful UK Smaller Companies team where he covered engineering, transport and support services stocks.

 

In 2007, Phil joined Halbis Capital Management as a European equities analyst. He began writing for MoneyWeek in 2010.