“A declining civil aircraft book-to-bill ratio is set to drive down civil aerospace stock valuations later in 2006. Meanwhile, other negative issues are developing, including a loss of market share, the cost of a grossed-up balance sheet, input costs and the pension deficit.”
“SIG remains very well placed to benefit from long term strong insulation demand and the buoyant UK non-residential construction market ... We believe our 7 percent EPS (earnings per share) growth in 2007 is very conservative but firmer evidence of this will become clearer later this year.”