{"id":617877,"date":"2026-04-19T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617877\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:46:09","slug":"ellerston-capitals-james-barker-on-why-hes-backing-sks-technologies-servcorp-and-duratec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617877\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellerston Capital\u2019s James Barker on why he\u2019s backing SKS Technologies, Servcorp and Duratec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, James Barker and his team at Ellerston Capital invested in a little-known company called SKS Technologies. At the time, the shares were trading at 49\u00a2. This week, they hit a record $5.82.<\/p>\n<p>In the parlance of the market, it\u2019s a \u201c10-bagger\u201d \u2013 an investment that returns 10 times its original value. For Barker, who has spent the past 11 years at Ellerston, it is the result of a boots-on-the-ground approach to looking for businesses that most of the big players haven\u2019t noticed yet.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years ago, James Barker and his team at Ellerston Capital invested in a little-known company called SKS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-617877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}