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Dunelm

February 2020

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 1156p
After last month’s unscheduled update put a rocket under the shares, Dunelm followed up by saying Q2 like-for-like sales grew 5% against tough comparatives with gross margin increasing 1.2% in the 13 weeks ended 28 December. Profit guidance for the first half is £1m higher than forecast with Dunelm expecting £83m pretax profit after adjusting for the IFRS accounting standard on leases, changes that will reduce pretax profit by £1.3m in H1 ’20.The group remains highly cash generative with net debt of £68m (FY ’19: £73m) and weekly average debt of £24m. This was after paying a special dividend of £65m and £20m extra in tax than the prior year due to changes in corporat ...

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