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Zotefoams

April 2022

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In ‘normal’ times, if Zotefoams said it had reported sales up 22% to £100.8m and a rising proportion of sales were higher margin products, you would have seen operating margins head into orbit. But these are far from normal times with the business seeing cost price inflation for energy, freight and polymers, which caused gross margin to decline to 26.4% (from 33.6%). Consequently, Zotefoams’ pretax profit ended down 16% to £7m with eps down 39% to 9p - but it’s not a total surprise. As the company says, prices for its key raw material polymer pellets are up 60% year on year - when polymer prices have risen historically, it would encourage stuff to be brought in from Turkey, Iran or the Middle East but because freight costs are so high, i ...

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