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Auto Trader

August 2020

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:
  • AUTO
  • Price:
  • 522p
Auto Trader, the UK’s largest digital automotive marketplace, released in-line final results for the year ending 31 March with revenues and pretax profit  up 4% to £369m and £251.5m, respectively. Eps increased 6% to 22.2p. Average-revenue-per-retailer-forecourt per month, a good indicator of underlying growth, increased 6% to £1,949, while physical car stock on site grew 4% to 478,000 cars. The number of retailer forecourts using its services increased to 13,345 (up 105).More interesting was current trading, which showed daily cross platform visits initially falling from 1.5m in March to 1.2m in April, before growing to 1.6m in May and 2.1m for 1st-21st June. The average number of retailers ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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