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N Brown

November 2016

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BWNG has reported its H1 results to end August with its digital transformation making further progress.Sales for the period were up 1% to £429.4m driven by product revenue +0.6% to £300.9m and financial services +1.9% to £128.5m. Adjusted pretax profit was said to have beaten consensus but was still down 20% year-on-year from £39.4m to £31.6m. Adjusted eps were down from 11.2p to 9p. The 14.2p dividend was held.On the plus side, online penetration is now 68% of sales, which is up 5% year-on-year. Online revenue is up 7.5% year-on-year and Power brands (particularly JD Williams) continued to outperform. That’s the good news.The not so good news is that although BWNG launched its new US ...

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