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Supergroup

January 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • SGP
  • Price:
  • 1669p
A volatile month ending strongly. The shares were hit the day before results by almost 10% as one broker (Liberum) suggested selling due to the expectation that the exceptionally warm autum would have had a great impact. But the price then confounded the doubters by jumping even more the next day to a new high when Supergroup reported H1 results, which were, as expected, accompanied with a maiden 6.2p dividend.Underlying pretax profit was up 55% to £19.3m for eps of 20p but the performance is even better as this included £2.4m of losses in the US, which is early stage. Net cash was £80m. Retail sales were up 30% to £172m with operating profit up 36% to £19.1m. This reflected 14 new owned sto ...

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