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Boohoo.com - Gain since 42.5p tip now 871%

July 2020

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  • Epic Code:
  • BOO
  • Price:
  • 413p
Boohoo continues to confound the sceptics, with forecasts standing 10-15% higher than before the pandemic at £119.5m pretax profit/eps of 7.4p. The latest Q1 showed sales up 45% year-on-year versus consensus expectations of 10-20%, with growth in the latter two months of lockdown being up 70%. Growth was strong in all geographies (US in particular, +79% year-on-year) and gross margin also improved 60 bps in this quarter to 55.6%, the highest seen since 2016.  Boohoo has just announced it has spent £5.25m (of the £200m raised in a placing during May to fund M&A) to acquire the Online business of recently administrated brands Oasis and Warehouse. The brands will allow boohoo to continue to c ...

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