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Dunelm - Trading ahead of expectations

February 2019

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 680p
The shares jumped towards £7 after Dunelm said trading is running ahead of expectations. For the quarter to end December, like-for-like revenue growth was 9%. Like-for-like store revenue increased 5.7% while like-for-like online revenue through dunelm.com grew strongly by almost 38%. Total multi-channel revenue for the quarter, which is online plus reserve and collect plus tablet based selling in store, now represents 16.5% of the total, an increase of 4.1%.  Providing the icing on the cake was an increase in gross margin of 1.9% (190 basis points) compared with the same period a year ago. This partly reflects the elimination of lower margin sales from the discontinued Worldstores business, but there’s also been gr ...

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