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Investors are tired of energy transition ‘jam tomorrow’

Patience is wearing thin, no matter how visionary the strategy
A Johnson Matthey factory in Poland. Excluding disposals, the company’s underlying business has since April 2021 burnt £135mn of cash, on estimates from shareholder Standard Investments

Should fossil fuel and industrial companies spend billions trying to build new, “cleaner” businesses? Or simply squeeze as much cash as possible from existing operations, even if they are in structural decline? This is one of the defining questions of the decade in many sectors.

Successful case studies backing up option A are becoming fewer and farther between. The 207-year-old British industrial group Johnson Matthey’s latest transformation shows how well-meaning ideas can turn into expensive misfires — as well as the dangers of becoming a “jam tomorrow” energy transition stock.

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