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B&M European Retail

August 2021

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:
  • BME
  • Price:
  • 549p
Having raised forecasts in March B&M has beaten them again with finals showing EBITDA increasing 83% to £626.4m, above its £590m-£620m guidance. Adjusted pretax profit increased 108% to £540m while eps rose 114% to 43.3p. B&M threw off £944m cash flow (FY’20: £539.5m) reflecting tight working capital discipline, leaving net debt / EBITDA at just 0.8x. Discount convenience food chain Heron posted broadly unchanged EBITDA of £24.6m  while French business Babou turned the previous year’s loss into a £11.1m EBITDA profit. However, the heavy lifting was done by B&M UK, the core variety goods discount retailer, which increased EBITDA 85% to &poun ...

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