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Howden Joinery

April 2022

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  • Epic Code:
  • HWDN
  • Price:
  • 809p
I originally wrote up Howden Joinery, the market leading supplier of kitchen cabinets, worktops and other joinery products, at 115p in February 2011 and most recently at 684p in January 2020. After the inevitable Covid-19 volatility the shares stormed to an all-time high of 977p last September before pulling back to 809p. Final results were exceedingly strong with sales, pretax profit and eps rising 35%, 111% and 114% to £2,093m, £390.3m and 53.2p, respectively. Even against 2019 they recorded gains of 32%, 50% and 52%. With net cash having increased from £431m to £515m, Howden launched a £250m buy-back on top of 19.2p dividend.Helped by the home improvements tailwind created in the lockdown, 62 reformatted depots (costing £225,000 ...

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