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Moonpig - Growth in orders and average order values

August 2024

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  • Epic Code:
  • MOON
  • Price:
  • 215.5p
Moonpig has been a slow burn since I made the shares a main buy at 157p in January but made up for lost time this month, surging over 200p after full year results to end April came in with sales and pretax profit both ahead of expectations at £341m (+7%) and £58.2m (+5%). Eps were up 25% to 9.6p. Net debt is down to 1.3x from 1.7x - so all round an excellent outturn.   Orders in H1 were -5% but turned to +5% in H2 (FY sales £241.3m) and even Greetz has moved from -20% in FY23 to -5% in H2 (FY sales of £51.2m) helped by new technology features and also Greetz moving over to the same technology platform. Average order values at Moonpig and Greetz increased by 5.1% year-on-year, reflecting the full annual impact of card price increas ...

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