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Photo-Me - Net cash increases to 16.9p per share

August 2013

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  • Epic Code:
  • PHTM
  • Price:
  • 90p
The shares hit a new high of 95p after Photo-Me released finals ahead of expectations. Although turnover fell 6% to £196m, pretax profit and eps rose 21% to £24.3m and 4.76p respectively. Strong cash generation meant net cash rose 18% to £61.4m or 16.9p a share. The operations division, which consists mainly of photobooths, but also digital printing kiosks, laundry machines, photobook makers and amusement machines, increased revenue 1.3% and operating profit 15% to £28.8m. Continental Europe (mainly France) increased profit 19% to £16.1m, with the UK up 32% to £3.4m and Asia (mainly Japan) growing 52% to £5.9m. Operating margin rose from 14.1% to 15.9% and is more than double the 7.3% made ...

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