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Dunelm - Four directors buy shares after unjustified de-rating

April 2017

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:
  • 642p
Very occasionally investors are given the opportunity to make a great deal of money by purchasing growth shares at prices that offer outstanding value, often because of transient problems that muddy the short-term picture. In the case of Dunelm, a specialist out-of-town retailer of home textiles and homewares, the company has an unimpeachable track record with eps jumping 267% between 2007-2016 while the shares have risen more than nine-fold from trough-to-peak over the same period. But the combination of unhelpful weather, Brexit, one off spikes in infrastructure costs and an acquisition that will lose £10m this financial year before breaking even next, has caused the shares to fall nearly £4 from their peak.Neverthele ...

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