Primary Recommendation

Entertainment One - Trading ahead and signals move to Full List

May 2010

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Iceland's volcanic eruption halted Entertainment One's (E1) chief executive, Darren Throop's visit from Canada to the UK during the month. As a result, we didn't get a chance to meet up as we had anticipated when we first wrote about the company in February. We have, however, managed to catch up over the phone shortly after. E1 announced that trading for the year is ahead of market expectations and that it plans to transfer from AIM to the Full List, which will make its shares more marketable. We think, based on eps of 12.9p and a prospective PE of only 6, the shares should be bought ahead of the results on 25 May.E1 is a unique company on the London market, involved in the exploitation of entertainment-based intellectual p ...

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