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Clean Air warning by Johnson Matthey...but I doubt even Greta is happy

By Chris Bailey | Monday 30 March 2020


Disclosure: I own shares in one or more of the stocks mentioned. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from ShareProphets). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


If you ask me to name five 'quality' longer-term FTSE-100 constituents, then I would probably include Johnson Matthey (JMAT) on that list. Naturally though, its corporate longevity and range of typically high barrier to entry businesses (recycling and refining of precious metals, clean air and car emissions regulation focused, plus batteries and value-adding fine chemicals) has not stopped it avoiding the recent plunge. Today's update (thanks to the FCA for allowing this – you know my thoughts on the postponement / suppression of reporting) includes a profit warning, but that is par for the course, although with a bunch of cost suppression comments…

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