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Photo-Me

December 2004

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.

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Photo-Me issued a  rather confusing trading update, which caused the shares to wobble before a slight recovery. The statement, which covered the first six months ending 31 October, noted that the first half would be similar to last year's levels. Broker,Evolution Securities, who met with Photo-Me following this statement,nevertheless remain happy with their forecasts for a 52% increase inpretax profit to £32.4m and a 43% increase in earnings to 5.7p for thefull year ending next April. With both its Kiosk and Photoboothbusinesses performing in line with expectations, the key swing factoris its assumption that the Minilabs business, which sold 740 units inthe first half, is on course to hit the broker's target of 1,70 ...

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