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Urbium - Results on 25 February

February 2004

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  • Epic Code:
  • URM
  • Price:
  • 462p
In a market obsessed with all things tech, there are some low valuations emerging elsewhere. One such is Urbium (462p) which has reported encouraging trading over the Christmas period.  Numis now expect  earnings of 59.9p for the year ended on 31 December, despite SARs and terrorism affecting consumer sentiment and the very hot summer. Their above-consensus forecast for the current year is 72.8p which drops the PE to just 6.3.   Urbium was established in 1997, when chairman John Conlan (ex-First Leisure) joined the old Trocadero business. Under Conlan’s hand, Urbium grew its estate of high volume bars under the Trocadero umbrella. Six sites opened in 2001 and eight were opened/acquired in 2002, at which point ...

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