
29 Apr 2021
Promising start to FY21
Smith & Nephew reported consensus-beating Q1 21 sales growth of 6.2%, driven by ‘sports medicine & ENT’ (+10.4%) and ‘advanced wound management’ (+9.3%). Regionally, growth was driven by emerging markets (+21.8%) and the US (+7.1%), which made up for the 1.8% decline in other established markets.
The firm also reinstated the outlook and now expects FY21 underlying growth of 10-13% with a trading profit margin of 18-19%.
We will raise our estimates and target price, following the strong perform ....

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Promising start to FY21
Smith & Nephew plc (SN:LON) | 1,065 -154.4 (-1.3%) | Mkt Cap: 9,329m
- Published:
29 Apr 2021 -
Author:
Virendra Chauhan -
Pages:
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Smith & Nephew reported consensus-beating Q1 21 sales growth of 6.2%, driven by ‘sports medicine & ENT’ (+10.4%) and ‘advanced wound management’ (+9.3%). Regionally, growth was driven by emerging markets (+21.8%) and the US (+7.1%), which made up for the 1.8% decline in other established markets.
The firm also reinstated the outlook and now expects FY21 underlying growth of 10-13% with a trading profit margin of 18-19%.
We will raise our estimates and target price, following the strong perform ....