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January 2010

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:
  • 39p
Once again, sales and profits in H110 were boosted by the currency factor (weak pound against the strong Yen and Euro). However, if the currency had remained constant it would have transformed a 9% rise to £118m into a 2% decline. Similarly, pretax profits were transformed from a 52% gain into a 72% gain to £11.2m for eps up 52% to 1.4p. With that performance, Photo-Me also returned to the dividend list with a maiden 0.25p declared.Of course, profits are only half the story; the sizeable depreciation charge on the estate of vending equipment depresses profits and Photo-Me continues to churn out a tidal wave of cash (in the past six months it has gone from net debt of £26.1m to net cash of £2.6m). EBITDA from continuing operati ...

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