Primary Recommendation

Boohoo.com - Essential investment to hold back H1 profits

September 2014

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They say that every cloud has a silver lining. This couldn't be more true than in the case of Boohoo.com, a clothing e-tailer targeting 16-24 year olds. The company was established by Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane who previously ran Pinstripe, a business supplying Topshop, Primark and New Look with cheap clothes imported from the Far East. When those customers began to source directly, cutting out Pinstripe, the duo didn't stand still. Instead, they decided to set up their own retail operation, Boohoo.com, in 2006 before eventually folding Pinstripe into it. The business last year had grown to 2.3m customers and delivered 63% sales growth, topping £100m for the first time with a proforma ebitda (assuming Pinstripe had been folded i ...

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Market Comment - September '14

Allocate Software - 66% of total sales recurring

Boohoo Group (February 2024)

Boohoo (September 2023)

Boohoo Group (July 2023)

Boohoo - Mid term aspirations imply an EBITDA of £120m against a market cap of £500m (June 2023)

Boohoo Group - New incentive plan rests between 95p and 395p (March 2023)

Boohoo Group (February 2023)

Boohoo (October 2022)

Boohoo Group (July 2022)

Boohoo Group - Highly geared to any improvement in commercial flights (June 2022)

Boohoo - Review ahead of FY report on 4 May (May 2022)

Boohoo Group - Shore Cap initiate with 345p target (November 2021)

Boohoo Group - Enters beauty space with Debenhams acquisition (March 2021)

Boohoo.com - Gain since 42.5p tip now 871% (July 2020)

Boohoo.com - Blistering growth continues (February 2020)

Boohoo.com (September 2019)

Boohoo.com - Gain to date: 680% (July 2017)

Boohoo.com (April 2017)

Boohoo.com - Buys PrettyLittleThing (January 2017)

Boohoo.com - 310% gain since tip in September â€˜15 (November 2016)

Boohoo.com (September 2016)

Boohoo.com - Shares burst to 52 week high (July 2016)

Boohoo.com (June 2016)

Boohoo.com (February 2016)

Boohoo.com (October 2015)

Boohoo.com - Launches mobile app in August (September 2015)

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