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Photo-Me - Earnings forecast lifted by 11% and Finncap sets 86p share price target

July 2011

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  • Epic Code:
  • PHTM
  • Price:
  • 66p
Results came in ahead with sales of £220m but the mesmerising aspects were that pretax profit and earnings virtually doubled to £18m and 3.7p, respectively - so in fact, Photo-Me has come in well ahead and within a whisker of the numbers that were being forecast for this year. The cash pile grew by £33m to £40.7m and the dividend is hiked by 60% to 2p. EBITDA from continuing operations was up 7.5% to £47.6m. We won't include a full segmental analysis as there isn't much to add to what we said last month. The only keynote was that the company has finally achieved a licence to operate in Beijing, adding to the existing licence in Shanghai. Our guess is that investment in new booths both here and in France where the Starbooth is ...

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