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Domino's Pizza - Shares surge towards Â£5

April 2006

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The shares surged to a new high of 479p and have gained 53% since our main recommendation last November. The catalyst was a very strong set of results for the year ended 31 December, which showed a 15% increase in system sales to Â£201m and pretax profit rising nearly 27% to Â£11.2m. Earnings grew just over 22% to 15.5p in spite of the tax charge rising from 23.3% to 26.2%. Dominoâ€™s once again demonstrated its impressive cash generation and in spite of returning Â£8.2m to shareholders through share buybacks, its net debt fell from Â£4.2m to Â£4.1m.During the year, Dominoâ€™s opened 50 new outlets, a considerable acceleration on the 40 opened the previous year and its chain of mainly franchised stores has now grown to 407. Intere ...

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