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Superdry - Outperforming the market

November 2022

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In an otherwise moribund retail sector, Superdry’s recent trading improvement stole the show. It wasn’t the full year results - these had been preannounced (see June SCSW) with sales up 10% to £610.5m and a return to profitability with pretax profit of £22m and a swing back from the £13m loss incurred in FY21. Whilst ahead of consensus forecasts (c.£10m) this was supported by an FX gain of £13m. But as I said in June, it is the more recent performance that is the most relevant as there has been uninterrupted trading versus previous periods that were skewed by lockdowns. Even so, markets had been braced for something measly but the trading update covering 1 May to 1 October showed an 'encouraging start' to FY23, with revenue +7% fo ...

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Superdry (April 2023)

Superdry (February 2023)

Superdry (January 2023)

Superdry - Still on track for first profits since 2019 (June 2022)

Superdry - Eps of 20p and 38p forecast for next two years (February 2022)

Superdry - Clear evidence of brand turnaround (October 2021)

Superdry - Tripled but could double again (June 2021)

Superdry (February 2021)

Superdry - E-commerce going gangbusters (from +4% after 7 weeks of Q2 to +52% for the last 6 weeks) (December 2020)

Superdry (October 2020)

Superdry - Q1 trading better than initial expectations (September 2020)

Superdry (December 2019)

Superdry (August 2018)

Superdry (June 2018)

Superdry - Free cash generation about to balloon six-fold (February 2018)

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