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Photo-Me - Becomes an 11-bagger for SCSW

January 2014

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  • Epic Code:
  • PHTM
  • Price:
  • 144.75p
More new highs followed Photo-Me's seasonally stronger H1 to end October. Overall, sales were down 5% to £101m but pretax profit was up 20% to £23m with eps up 8% to 4.3p. Net cash at the period end was £67.8m or 18p a share. Great of course, but a far cry from a year ago when the shares were 60p and cash made up a third of the market cap - and of course Photo-Me has now begun to deploy new machines in its operations side. This division, which operates a number of photo booths and vending equipment, grew profit marginally by £0.3m to £20.6m on slightly lower sales of £92.8m. Year-on-year the number of sited photobooths increased by 1,204 to 25,485 (most were of the Starck variety) and went into Europe and Asia. Some 30 new machine ...

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