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Photo-Me - 60% margin on laundry side makes for big swing factor

August 2014

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  • Epic Code:
  • PHTM
  • Price:
  • 142.5p
Photo-Me shares are simmering and on the cusp of a breakout (see chart below). This has been helped by strong full year results with pretax profit up 24% to £30.1m, partly helped by a lower depreciation charge. Eps was up 19% to 5.7p. Sales were £186.6m, which was 4% lower and largely reflects the ongoing strategic withdrawal from the minilab business. As finance director Francoise Coutaz-Replan says, in an era of smartphones and digital cameras, Photo-Me's former manufacturing business, which supplied photographic equipment such as minilabs, has seen its market collapse in the last few years. People just don't bother developing their photos and consequently the photo processing labs have all shut down. Revenue on the sales and se ...

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