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Brickability

February 2023

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Having slid to levels last seen in February 2021, shares in the brick factor group bounced after the COO bought 300,000 shares. Earlier, the company had also issued positive interims with EBITDA up 46% to £25.5m and like-for-like sales up 9.3%. EBITDA margins fell from 7.8% to 7.2% reflecting the impact of the lower margin Taylor Maxwell acquisition. Net debt increased to £27.4m (H1 ’21: net cash: £2.8m) reflecting an increase in working capital requirements which is timing related and mostly expected to unwind by the year-end. Bricks & Building Materials (72% sales) grew sales 57% (4.3% like-for-like) with brick volumes in line with last year and price increases and mix being the main drivers. As expected timber volumes and p ...

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