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Majestic Wine - Earnings upgrade to 25.9p for current year

July 2011

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  • Epic Code:
  • WINE
  • Price:
  • 505p
A main recommendation in February '09 at 233p, shares in the UK's largest wine specialist have climbed with barely a pause. The latest results for the year to 31 March showed pretax profit increasing by 26% to £20.1m with total sales up 10% to £257m. Earnings went up 25% to 23p.  The wine market is dominated by the big supermarkets with a 75% market share versus Majestic's, which has this year inched ahead by 0.2% to 3.6%. When it comes to online sales, however, Majestic is a well oiled machine with a 12% market share, coming second only to Tesco.But Majestic has always said it doesn't compete with supermarkets and targets an altogether different audience who are better educated about wines ...

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