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Warpaint

October 2024

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  • Epic Code:
  • W7L
  • Price:
  • 582p
Warpaint’s H1 results were in line with the highest expectations, with sales up 25% to £45.8m (equally distributed across the W7 and Technic brands), along with a widening of gross margins, which caused pretax profit to jump 75% to £11m, delivering an eps of 10.6p. The growth is far from over, as CEO Samuel Bazini explains: “Warpaint is now present at just 45,000 doors of existing customers, but these customers still have 29,000 doors it could enter. Existing customers are also allocating more space to us, noting the example of Boots, where sales are said to be four times higher since the start of 2024, as the number of stores increased from 80 to 180. Many of these stores expanded displays from 2ft (40 SKUs) to 3ft (80 SKUs).” This boos ...

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