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Dunelm

April 2012

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 510p
Another respectable set of interims from out of town homewares retailer Dunelm with revenues rising 9% to £300m and pretax profit rising almost 8% to £52.2m. Eps rose 9% to 18.6p. Strong cash flow of £73.1m meant net cash increased from £34.3m to £49.9m. Dunelm continued to gain market share with like-for-like sales rising 1.1%, while it also opened 11 new super stores (including one re-location), taking the total to 114 super stores and nine high street shops and increasing selling space by 8.7%. Capital investment was £29.4m, which reflected fit-outs for new stores and store re-fits and 50% of all existing super stores are either new or have been refitted in the last three years. Although former chief executive Will ...

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