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February 2006

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • PHTM
  • Price:
  • 96.5p
The shares fell sharply following interims which whilst themselves were in line with expectations, highlighted poor sales of digital minilabs which triggered some downgrades. Even despite this month’s fall, the shares are still almost five times higher than the 19p level at which we tipped them several times in ‘03. For the latest H1 to 31 October, sales were down 6% to £108m and pretax profit (including an exceptional insurance gain relating to a fire of £3.3m) was down 10% to £15.9m for eps of 2.7p. The vending division (photobooths and digital media kiosks) grew revenues by 5% to £79m and profit before central overheads lifted 38% to £16.2m. Growth came through growing the est ...

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