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Restaurant Group

April 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • RTN
  • Price:
  • 398p
We found the severity of the 35% mark-down in Restaurant Group’s shares post full year results puzzling, given that the broker downgrades for 2016 ranged from 2-6%. Turnover, pretax profit and eps rose 8%, 11.2% and almost 13% respectively to £685m, £86.8m and 33.8p, not bad considering the flooding in Q4 ’15. Results were boosted by 44 new openings, taking the total to 506, but the market was spooked by a deceleration in like-for-like sales to 1.5%. Management blamed this on increased competition in casual dining, erratic trading (weak in midweek but stronger at weekends) and cautious consumer spending. Are people worrying about the June referendum?Its largest chain, Frankie & Benny’s, (14 opening ...

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