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IG Design

August 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:
  • IGR
  • Price:
  • 588p
IG Design, the gift packaging, celebrations and creative play products group, released terrific final results with revenues up 37% to £448m and pretax profit up 39% to £30.3m. Eps increased 33% to 29.3p. Very strong cash generation of £50.5m meant average leverage fell from 1.5 times to 1.3 times. Its focus on working with the winners – its top ten customers account for 48% global revenues versus 39% a year ago -  drove almost 10% organic sales growth.  There was good growth in all regions, with Americas (50% group revenue) increasing 83% to US$289.9m, of which US$115m was thanks to the Impact acquisition. Operating profit grew 57% to US$20m, with the operating margin down from 8% to 6.9% reflectin ...

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