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Domino's Pizza - Gain to date: 326%

March 2005

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Another excellent set of final results from Domino's with pretax profit before goodwill up 35% to £8.8m. Earnings per share were up 47% to 13.2p due to a lower 23% tax charge (making the 5-year compound annual growth 50%). The company opened 40 new stores bringing the total to 357. The number of new stores was fewer than the 50 opened last year due to delays with local councils introducing new A5 site usage licenses and some cost pressures temporarily limiting the number of quality new franchisees able to take new stores. But the larger number of stores has two significant benefits. First is the benefit that it spreads the unit costs of head office. The second benefit is that it increases the national advertising pot. This h ...

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Domino's Pizza (February 2010)

Domino's Pizza (March 2009)

Domino's Pizza - Strong like-for-like growth (January 2009)

Domino's Pizza (November 2008)

Domino's Pizza (August 2008)

Domino's Pizza - Strongly growing like-for-like sales (March 2008)

Domino's Pizza - Ahead of market expectations (May 2007)

Domino's Pizza UK & IRL - Proposes three-for-one share split (March 2007)

Domino's Pizza - Up 698% since tip (May 2006)

Domino's Pizza (March 2006)

Domino's Pizza (February 2006)

Domino's Pizza UK&IRL (October 2005)

Domino's Pizza - Long-term build out target of 800 stores (September 2005)

Domino's Pizza (July 2005)

Domino's Pizza (February 2005)

Domino's Pizza UK & IRL (August 2004)

Domino's Pizza UK & IRL (June 2004)

Domino's Pizza - Royalty agreement due for renewal by 2006 (March 2004)

Domino's Pizza - Forecasts likely to be upgraded again (February 2004)

Domino's Pizza - Opens 300th take away (November 2003)

Domino's Pizza - Record run continues; more to come (August 2003)

Domino's Pizza - Take away sales growing at expense of upmarket restaurants (February 2003)

Dominos Pizza - First quarter sales up 29% (May 2002)

Domino Pizza - Like-for-like sales up 20.5% (March 2002)

Domino Pizza - Very interesting business dynamics start to kick in (February 2002)

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