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Topps Tiles

February 2010

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:
  • TPT
  • Price:
  • 87p
Shares in Topps Tiles have quickly returned towards their high after the firm announced two positive news items since last month's update. First, it has bitten the bullet and withdrawn funding from its loss-making Dutch subsidiary. The 12 remaining stores comprised 4% of group revenue in 2009 but had made a loss of £4.9m. Most recently, Topps has announced that trading in the first 14 weeks of the year has shown like-for-like sales growth of 5.5%, a large improvement on the 2.2% increase seen in the first seven weeks. In reaction broker, Brewin Dolphin, has increased pretax profit forecasts for this year from £19.5m to £21m (eps:7.8p), dropping the prospective PE to 11.2. Keep buying ...

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