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July 2022

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Bloomsbury continues to shine. As the 25th Harry Potter anniversary draws near, it has just reported its best ever results with sales up 24% to £230.1m, with the three strategic acquisitions, ABC-CLIO, Red Globe Press list and Head of Zeus, contributing revenue of £17.4m (i.e. organic sales were +15%). Pretax profit was up 40% to £26.7m and eps of 25.94p were ahead of recently upgraded expectations. A net cash position of £41m helped underpin a full year dividend of 10.7pThe Consumer side grew its sales to £148m (+25% with LFL +18%) boosted by strong titles performance, especially Sarah J Mass; whilst Non-Consumer was £81.9m (+23% with LFL +10%) and saw the benefit of previous digital platform investment. Bloomsbury Digital Resou ...

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