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GKN cheap... not so cheerful

The engineer was marked down following news of unexpected claims and a writedown in the US aerospace business
October 18, 2017

Sure enough, on the day GKN (GKN) revealed a £15m non-cash impairment on its North American aerospace business, together with news of a £40m charge on two “commercially sensitive” claims, we released an issue with a cover feature extolling the virtues of the Redditch-based engineering group. A raft of broker downgrades duly followed.

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