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Today’s trading update from Mothercare demonstrates that the hard work of restructuring and refinancing in recent years has borne fruit with underlying FY22 EBITDA expected to be in line with our forecasts despite the loss of the key Russian market in March. The pension deficit continues to shrink rapidly (as defined by a second desk exercise) and we now expect pension cash payments to halve. FY23 will be a tough year but we expect the business to pivot quicker to new growth opportunities to com
Companies: Mothercare plc
This morning, Mothercare announced that all business in Russia has been suspended, including shipment of all products. The territory is operated under franchise by Alshaya, which has confirmed that it will be immediately pausing all operations in 120 stores and online. Russia represents 20%-25% of global sales and £0.5m of group profit/month for Mothercare (pre any mitigating actions). We have adjusted our P&L forecasts accordingly, more important is cashflow. We estimate that Mothercare should
Dish of the day Joiners: Invinity Energy Systems plc (AIM:IES), a leading global manufacturer of utility-grade energy storage has dual listed on the Aquis Stock Exchange. Leavers: No leavers today. What’s cooking in the IPO kitchen? New Energy One Acquisition Corporation Plc, intends to float on Main Market. NEOA is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in the United Kingdom that has been established to focus on pursuing a Business Combination with targets that are positioned to par
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Where next for markets in 2022? In our view, if COVID is not on the way out, we are just going to have to live with it now and it will have less and less impact on economic forecasts going forward. Instead, the bigger issues for investors to deal with in 2022 are cost inflation and staff shortages for business (which are already hitting earnings momentum), energy cost inflation and higher taxes hitting the consumer wallet, and markets that start from very elevated valuation multiples compared wi
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Throw away your old preconceptions – it is time to take a fresh look at Mothercare. It is no longer an ailing UK retailer; rather Mothercare has been reborn as an asset-light franchise brand represented instore and online with 18 franchise partners operating in over 700 dedicated Mothercare stores and 400+ additional stores that carry a selection of products from the brand and with a small but fast-growing online presence. Mothercare is profitable again and expects to make +£15m EBITDA post-COVI
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Mothercare (MTC): Corp Transformation plan update
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Independent Oil & Gas (IOG): Corp SNS farm-out deal reached | Mothercare (MTC): Corp Q1FY20; A challenging start to FY20 | Shield Therapeutics (STX): Corp FDA approval and with a broad label
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Interswitch, a Nigeria-based payments firm, has hired advisers to resurrect plans for a stock-market listing in London and Lagos later this year, which may value the financial technology company at $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion. Roxi Music UK music streaming service plans London IPO as it goes up against Spotify. They have appointed investment bank Arden Partners for an initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange later this year.
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The key message from today’s FY19 results is solid transformational progress and delivery on the market’s financial expectations. This is a complex set of results, reflective of major restructuring e.g. CVA, fundraise, disposal programme, significant cost cutting and new vision/strategy/operating model. MTC is now moving towards the next step of its transformation plan to develop MTC as a global brand.
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• Financial performance: Group revenue of £1,982.8m is +13.6% YOY and +41.3% versus FY20, representing significant market share gains versus global apparel markets that remain below pre-pandemic levels (UK: +27.3% versus market -3%, US +3.8% versus market -9%). The UK delivered a standout performance +27.3% YOY with strong growth across both established and new brands. Demand in international markets has been impacted by extended delivery times due to constrained airfreight capacity, a headwind
Companies: boohoo group Plc
H1 results confirm a strong recovery in store sales and a bounce back in profitability, benefitting from 26 weeks of uninterrupted trading. The Group is now debt free and has reinstated its dividend, with an interim distribution of 2.5p declared and scope for further special dividends and share buybacks.
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Zytronic’s interims confirm a continuing improvement in demand, driven by the Gaming and Vending sectors. This has driven a 24% increase in H1 revenue and a profitable outturn (PBT of £0.4m), on track for our full year forecast (SCMe: £1.0m) despite ongoing and well publicised supply chain challenges. Longer term recovery potential remains substantial and the Group is in excellent financial shape (net cash £7.5m post recent share buy-back programme).
Companies: Zytronic plc
Good H1 figures and the turnaround plan on track make the risk/reward tilt upwards given the recent underperformance against BAT. However, we continue to believe that IMB’s combustible focus strategy is not the right one and we see much more positive catalysts when looking at BAT.
Companies: Imperial Brands PLC
Feature article: Latest ONS survey: steady as she goes…and ignore retail investors at your peril The ONS (Office for National Statistics) has been charting the beneficial ownership of UK-quoted companies periodically since the early 1960s. The latest paper was published in March 2022, and considers the data for December 2020. At December 2020, “Rest of the World” investors owned 56.3% of the market, a further growth since the last survey, while UK institutions’ ownership edged up to 31.6%.
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Companies: Accrol Group Holdings plc
e client of Hybridan LLP Dish of the day Joiners: BSF Enterprise. Following the successful reverse takeover of 3D Bio-Tissues Limited, a tissue engineering business based in Newcastle, UK, the Company announces admission of the enlarged group to the standard segment of the Official List and initiation of trading on the Main Market under the ticker ' BSFA '. The Admission follows a placing which raised £1.75m at a placing price of 7.37 pence per share. Leavers: No Leavers Today. What’s cooking in
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Today’s AGM update highlights a satisfactory start to the year. Against a worsening consumer backdrop and further supply chain disruption sales are up 2% and gross margin has nudged up. This reflects favourably on management and the strategy reset. With 80% of profits generated in H2 we leave our forecasts unchanged for now but clearly much will depend on the state of consumer demand in the months ahead. We expect to get better clarity with the H1 update in July but equally, geographic diversity
Companies: Portmeirion Group PLC
Accrol has delivered a robust trading update despite clear inflationary pressures on the business during the period. As a result, we are increasing our FY23 and FY24 revenue forecasts to reflect higher levels of activity and product inflation. Our headline earnings numbers remain unchanged following this update, albeit with growing confidence in FY23. We believe the shares look undervalued in what remains a strategically important player in the industry.
Residential-for-rent developer and manager Watkin Jones has confirmed it is on track to meet FY2022E expectations of rising profits in today’s interim results, which showed an 8% rise in revenue and a temporary decline in adjusted PBT, reflecting previously signalled timing and mix of sales. We are maintaining our estimates for FY2022E-23E, which show 21% compound growth in PBT. Longer term, we expect further growth fuelled by increasing demand for rental property from tenants and internat
Companies: Watkin Jones Plc
FY21A Results were well flagged in November’s trading update. Today’s announcement reveals the Group is now debt free and reiterates its intention to return to the dividend list in the current period. Shoe Zone has a clear and well-defined plan to transform its store portfolio and grow its digital offer through its shoehub platform, which we believe will deliver a well-balanced retail model that can win market share and drive profitable growth.
Companies: Frontier Developments Plc
Joiners: RC365 Holding has joined the Main Market (Standard). Founded in Hong Kong in 2013, the Group is a fintech solutions service provider in China and Hong Kong, and is looking to expand its payment gateway services into Europe and the UK. In connection with Admission, the Company successfully raised approx. £2m for the Group at a price of 6.2p per ordinary share. At the Issue Price, the Company's market capitalisation will be approx. £6.7m. Leavers: No Leavers Today. What’s cooking in the I
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