My son holds a few shares in Lavenden and asked me tonight why out of the blue it had gained 7.5 today - I've looked at the number of shares traded - nothing to write home about - no news - or i don't think there is.

Does anybody have any thoughts?

Great stuff: LVD Bid: 538.25p Offer: 539p Change: 63.25 approx 225K traded.

more news today:

Lavendon Group PLC - Share purchase
RNS Number:5174V
Lavendon Group PLC
25 April 2007


LAVENDON GROUP PLC
('Lavendon' 'the Company')


PDMR DEALINGS


Lavendon was notified today that Maarten Mijnlieff, the Managing Director of the
Company's German operation, has today purchased 315,161 ordinary shares of 1
pence each in the Company at a price of 400 pence per share (the 'Shares').

The Shares were purchased from Christian van Eeden and formed part of the share
consideration issued to Mr van Eeden when Lavendon purchased the Gardemann Group
from Mr van Eeden and Mr Mijnlieff in December 2006. The purchased Shares are
subject to a Restricted Marketing Agreement and, with the agreement of the
company, the restrictions have been transferred to Mr Mijnlieff. In particular,
the Shares acquired by Mr Mijnlieff cannot be sold until June 2008 at the
earliest. The two parties negotiated the price of the transaction in the light
of these marketing restrictions.

25 April 2007

FWIW, assuming the 52% increase in revenues was to feed straight through to 52% increase in net profits (don't take me too seriuosly on this, as I know there will have been all kinds of costs associated with the new lines of business), then at current PE of 30, that's a PEG of 0.58.

If LVD was to manage EPS this year of (1.52 x 18.09) = 27.5. That means at SP 540p, the co is on a PE of 19.6 for the current year. PEG 0.38.

Not bad - gives room for more SP growth, IMO.

PDYOR, etc.

I bought in March @ 413 and been on the rise ever since this one seems to go up when all the rest are going down

Cycladic Catalyst Master Fund, Cycladic Capital LLP have registered interest of 19% we're now up 4.8% today

something must be happening up another 6.8%

This is a real performer - wish I had stuck with it!

4th June Lavendon Group plc ('Lavendon'), Europe's market leader in the rental of powered
access equipment, today announces the acquisition of Wizard Workspace Limited
('Wizard').

Wizard operates a rental fleet of 1,300 machines in the UK, through a network of
nine depots with a head office in Norwich. The audited accounts for Wizard for
the year ended 31 December 2006 showed a turnover of 8.8 million, a profit
before tax of 0.6 million, gross assets of 9.7 million and net liabilities of
1.7 million.

this must have impressed someone as this one dos'nt seem to stop its rapid rise

still flying up 3.21% this morning - Lavendon Group PLC said its results for the six months to end-June will exceed current market expectations as year-on-year revenues grew 48 pct reflecting both organic growth, significantly improved operating margins and contributions from EPS-enhancing acquisitions.

The company, which rents powered access equipment, brought forward its trading update to say it continues to trade strongly and explore acquisition opportunities, and is confident it will be able to report further progress in coming months.

The company said its German operations have returned to profit with a 134 pct increase in revenues and that further progress is expected in the seasonally stronger second half.

UK revenues rose 26 pct, with both the Rise Hire and Wizard Workspace acquisitions expected to contribute to business performance for the remainder of the year. The decline in French revenues slowed to 7 pct and Middle East operations showed an 83 pct rise in revenues.

Debt levels remain comfortable and are well supported by strong operational cash flows, the company said.