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Carphone Warehouse - 'Triple play' opens up huge opportunity in BT's back yard

January 2006

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:
  • CPW
  • Price:
  • 235p
At first glance it might seem odd that shares in Carphone Warehouse, the UK’s largest independent mobile phone retailer, are hitting all-time highs, given the fragile nature of consumer confidence. But Carphone has fashioned a lucrative sweet spot for itself as cut-throat competition between network operators has forced them to throw large subsidies into providing extremely attractive phone deals for the consumer. This, in turn, has meant that customers flock to its stores come rain or shine and Carphone has milked this phenomenon with remarkable success, with its turnover increasing an incredible thirteen-fold and pretax profit more than seven-fold in the last seven years. But the current excitement reflects the realisation ...

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