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Warpaint

February 2023

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Shares in the colour cosmetics business have rocketed since my October 2019 write up at 62.5p and are up by a useful 38% from the even more recent main write up last October.As I said in October, the company’s strategy is to make W7 and Technic into global brands and it has been rolling out everyday cosmetics and gifting sets across both store-based and online partners and across the UK, the USA and Europe. Q4 went with a bang and full year sales will now be £64m, so £3m more than I was expecting last October. Full year forecasts for the year ended December have now been upgraded four times: having started the year at £6.8m pretax profit (eps 7.2p), the upgrade this month takes the forecast to £10m (eps 10.5p). A month into FY23, b ...

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