The week’s best shares

City Pub Group The Times

Since floating 14 months ago, the pub group has traded well and expanded its asset base. Benefiting from the strength of “wet sales” (from drink) and increasing numbers of £100-a-night bedrooms. Buy. 207p.

Consort Medical The Sunday Times

Delays have caused shares in the maker of medical devices to tumble. But its new Wixela inhaler – a generic version of the lung disease treatment Advair – can “only boost the stock”. Rewards “should be lucrative”. Buy. 800p.

Fresnillo The Sunday Telegraph

The Mexican-based miner had a “rotten 2018”: shares fell 39%. But gold and silver prices are rallying, and volatile stock markets and “scarcity value” (a rival has delisted) should boost shares. Buy. 887.6p.

MP Evans Group The Daily Telegraph

This Malaysia and Indonesiabased palm oil producer is an efficient, low-cost operator with high environmental standards. A strong balance sheet means it’s well placed to “ride out the ups and downs”. Buy. 656p.

Tritax Big Box REIT The Times

This £2bn investment trust owns 54 vast warehouses generating annual rents of £161.1m from blue chips like DHL, Unilever and Ocado. Tenants are “big” and “sticky”. Yields 4.8%. Buy. 139p.

Watkin Jones Investors Chronicle

This property developer is making hay from continuing strong demand for purposebuilt student accommodation. A robust pipeline of new work includes “build-to-rent” schemes in Reading and Wembley. Buy. 216p.