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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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H&T

April 2019

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:
  • HAT
  • Price:
  • 288p
Sentiment towards pawnbroker H&T has improved, in part thanks to a rally in gold prices from US$1195 to US$1328 / oz (higher prices increase the borrowing (or pawning) potential of people’s gold rings by raising their value). But the company also noted that following a strong Q4, it expects full year pretax profit to be in line with expectations.The key moving parts all showed good growth; within pawnbroking (its largest division) its pledge book increased 8% due to increased customer numbers and increased loans on quality watches.Elsewhere, Personal Loans grew 35% due to expansion of its new longer term, lower interest rate loan product. Meanwhile, the jewellery retail side delivered 7% sales growth thanks to an ex ...

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