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Photo-Me - New 10% p.a. dividend growth target

August 2015

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  • Epic Code:
  • PHTM
  • Price:
  • 133.5p
A wonderful surprise from Photo-Me’s final results, in which it has committed to 10% p.a. dividend growth, plus a return to shareholders of any cash on its year-end balance sheet in excess of £50m over the same period. Broker Finncap  expects the total dividend to rise from 4.9p in ’15 to 11.4p and 9.2p for ‘16 and ‘17.Results would have been even better but for the stronger pound vs euro and yen, which moved 8% and 10% year-on-year respectively, lopping £2.6m off profit. That meant actual pretax profit “only” increased 16% to £35m for eps that rose 17.5% to 6.7p, excluding the £3.5m profit on sale of some land. Net cash fell from £63.1m to £60.7m but only ...

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