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Dunelm

March 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 551p
Having had a strong Q1, which I covered in November, Dunelm had a tougher Q2. Overall H1 sales went up 18% to £545m but pretax profit was down 8% to £60m. This was down on expectations of c.£64m due entirely to the larger than expected £5.6m loss at Worldstores. The core Dunelm business performed strongly. Adjusted eps were down 7% at 23.8pDunelm has clearly benefited from Worldstores’ e-commerce expertise. Total online sales are now at 18.5% of the total, up from 11.7% last year. Like-for-like sales were up 6% with store sales up 3.5% and the Dunelm.com business growing by 36.8% as Worldstores furniture ranges were incorporated onto the site. The gross margin for H1 was down 1.8% to 48.6% due to a mix ...

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