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Cake Box - Cake shop franchise on the turn; PE less than half former peak

February 2023

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Your editor has been recommended to give up alcohol and refined sugar in recent years, making Seasonal and New Year celebrations a less foggy experience but one thing is crystal clear; desserts are far more addictive and harder to ditch than booze. I mention this after noting how American cakes and fast food chain Dairy Queen, one of billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s most successful investments, has enjoyed stellar success of late. After seeing pretax profit climb from US$27m in 1987 to US$162m in 2020 it subsequently lifted off almost vertically to US$1,035 million in 2021 when demand went ballistic during the Pandemic as its franchisees shoved cakes through car windows as fast as is humanly possible. It’s well-known that the ...

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