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Photo-Me - Dividend of 11.4p this year

July 2015

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  • Epic Code:
  • PHTM
  • Price:
  • 138p
For the first time in five years, Photo-Me has recorded an increase in sales, up just a modest 0.9% on constant currency at £177m. But the low turnover growth was more than compensated for by sharply reduced sales and servicing costs, which were down by a whopping £13.6m. Sales from now on should start to rise rapidly as the laundry machines grow in number and on a pared down cost base, growth should accelerate.Excluding a sale of some surplus land for £3.5m, pretax profit/eps were up 16%/18% to £35m/6.7p. That would have been even higher but for the strength of sterling against both the euro and yen, which impacted profitability by £2.6m, so constant-currency adjusted pretax profit was £37.6m, u ...

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