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Good Energy

May 2024

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  • Epic Code:
  • GOOD
  • Price:
  • 253.5p
Investors face a dilemma with Good Energy. As the energy markets stabilize, the company’s Supply business, having set fixed buying prices for electricity and gas from its portfolio of clean energy projects at high levels, incurs losses on new contracts. However, as these supply contracts renew, it anticipates transitioning to more favourable deals. Consequently, it reported a stellar H1 performance, but as anticipated, the Supply division experienced losses in H2 when what it could charge customers fell, culminating in a group pretax profit of £5.7m and EPS of 17.1p. But alongside that, Good Energy has other irons in the fire. It has been using the cash (£35m left at the year end including £7m of customer prepayments - excess dire ...

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