The week’s best buys
Cineworld Group The Times
Strong cash flow is helping to fund expansion and to cut debt, while a promising slate of releases, 4DX technology and “superscreens” are enticing cinemagoers. The dividend’s up too. Prospective yield 4.6%. Buy. 260p.
Iomart Group The Times
Iomart, which supplies digital infrastructure and cloud services, has some nicely “sticky” business customers. It operates in a wide spread of sectors and has the firepower for deals. Analysts are bullish. Buy. 392p.
Johnson Matthey The Daily Telegraph
The speciality chemicals group has several divisions, each with the potential for gains in sectors that include the motor industry and pharma, where there is scope to double or triple profits. Buy. £37.25.
PTSG The Mail on Sunday
Many of the highly specialised building and maintenance services that PTSG supplies are mandatory under British health and safety legislation. Run by a sector veteran, it has good long-term prospects. Buy. 178p.
Sirius Minerals The Mail on Sunday
Sirius is developing a huge polyhalite resource in Yorkshire, due to start commercial production in 2022. Momentum is building with a deal to supply 2.4 million tonnes of its fertiliser product, POLY4, in West Africa. Buy. 31.5p.
Tesco Investors Chronicle
The supermarket giant’s turnaround is gathering pace. The now completed Booker deal has boosted growth by 14.3%, and Tesco is exiting its loss-making non-food business and deleveraging. Buy. 256p.