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Boohoo Group

July 2022

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  • Epic Code:
  • BOO
  • Price:
  • 56p
Boohoo’s Q1 23 was weak as had been anticipated last month, with sales down 8% to £445.7m. Making my job difficult is that these results, like everyone’s, are being reported against comps that had been impacted by lockdown restrictions  which limits the usefulness of assessing  progress. I make four points.First, all the feckless writers of headlines in the newspapers forget that Q1 last year had been influenced by lockdowns, which created a tough revenue comparator (Q1 last year +32%).  By region, UK was strongest at broadly flat (-1%) whilst the US was weak (-26%)  as it continues to be impacted by delivery delays. The surprise was RoW, which rose 15%, helped by wholesale growth.Second, there was a drag from higher than usu ...

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