Comment / Against the odds: Mainfreight – an absolute stunner

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Lady luck came to visit Premium last week, for what was an absolute brilliant call for a service like ours that has rarely (never?) stamped a “BUY” on anything before. Until last week, that is, when the shares of New Zealand’s Mainfreight (MFT) – a brand, a crew, a company and a family business we love all round – traded at 52-week lows for several days in a row.

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