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Reach - Material cost programme benefits to come

August 2023

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Reach’s latest H1 results were well received. Revenue was -6% to £279m and operating profit was £36.1m, with a reduced margin of 12.9% (FY21: 15.9%). Eps were 8.7p with an H1 dividend of 2.9p and it seems H1 has marked the trough for profitability as there are material cost programme benefits to come in H2. Traditional media advertising in newspapers is now just a small part of Reach’s Print income - most of that is now circulation and during H1 circulation grew helped by price increases. Digital is the key swing factor. H1 had been hit by open market digital revenue declines but comparisons for digital get much easier as we are now lapping the worst of the war and inflation impacts of last year. In addition, most of the d ...

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Reach - Deutsche sets 190p target (November 2024)

Reach - Q2 Digital revenues back in growth (September 2024)

Reach (June 2024)

Reach (April 2024)

Reach - Publishers to benefit from Google Chrome cookie removal (November 2023)

Reach - H2 looks more promising (April 2023)

Reach (February 2023)

Reach - Singer sets 295p share price target (November 2022)

Reach - H2 should see improvement; PE of 3.2 (August 2022)

Reach - Deep Value in a FIFA World Cup year (June 2022)

Reach Prospective - PE of 4.3 (March 2022)

Reach - Digital continues to accelerate (December 2021)

Reach - Shares soar £1 over the month (August 2021)

Reach - Profit forecast upgraded by £5m this year and next (June 2021)

Reach - Highest operating margin for six years - value unlock coming (April 2021)

Reach - I expect it to be in the running for FTSE-250 soon enough (February 2021)

Reach - Q3 benefits from sharp revenue recovery and transformation programme (November 2020)

Reach (October 2020)

Reach (May 2020)

Reach - Results beat expectations (March 2020)

Reach - Accelerates digital transformation (February 2020)

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