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Shoe Zone

November 2022

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Another month, another upgrade for Shoe Zone, with full year sales to end October now guided to be >£156m, up 31% and pretax profit > £11m. Shoe ended the year with 360 stores, having closed 63 and opened 13 in favour of bigger and better ones. With stores seeing uninterrupted trading for a full 52 weeks (FY21: 36 weeks due to COVID related closures), store revenue shot ahead by 47% to £129.8m whilst Digital revenue at £26.4m was 14% lower as channel mix normalised.Gross margin was unchanged at 61.3%, a pretty formidable performance versus significant cost headwinds, most notably sea freight rates, which were as much as 10x their pre-Covid levels earlier in the year. Net cash of £24.4m is up £9.8m on the year after £4. ...

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Shoe Zone - Moving to free shipping online (March 2024)

Shoe Zone (November 2023)

Shoe Zone - Second upgrade in as many months; this one +29% (August 2023)

Shoe Zone - Fourth upgrade for FY22 (February 2023)

Shoe Zone (August 2022)

ShoeZone (July 2022)

ShoeZone - Shares gain 36% since November tip (February 2022)

Shoe Zone - Prospective PE of 7.9 (November 2021)

Shoe Zone - Could bounce big as lockdown eases (March 2021)

Shoe Zone - Accelerates big box openings (November 2018)

Shoe Zone (July 2016)

Shoe Zone (February 2016)

Shoezone (November 2015)

Shoe Zone (May 2015)

Shoezone - Synthetic shoes a beneficiary of low oil price (February 2015)

Shoezone (December 2014)

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