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Just Eat - Jefferies puts out £10 price target

April 2017

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The shares rose sharply in response to strong results as Just Eat, the largest online market-place for delivering take away food, increased revenues 52% to £35.7m on the back of a 42% rise in orders and 8% increase in revenue per order. EBITDA increased 93% to £115.3m while eps rose 85% to 12.2p. Guidance for the current year is for EBITDA to rise again to between £157m-£163m.In the UK revenues rose 40% to £237m, driven by a 1% rise in commission rates and higher volumes thanks to upping marketing by £10m to £38m. Established (overseas) markets, which include Denmark, Benelux, Canada and France, also performed well with revenues up 176% to £26.2m while Australia / New Zealand improved 42% to £36.8m.Management were upbeat abo ...

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