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Dunelm Group - Ungeared homewares retailer well placed for further expansion

January 2009

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 157p
The financial pedigree of Dunelm, the out-of-town specialist homewares retailer, is not in doubt with pretax profit increasing from £31.3m to £48m in the last four years to 30 June. But given the current circumstances in which the country finds itself Dunelm's biggest success has arguably been in not succumbing to the siren voices (not least its broker, UBS), which encouraged it to massively gear up its balance sheet in the interests of “efficiency†ahead of its float in October 2006. That means that today it is virtually free of net debt and with weaker rivals dropping by the wayside there could soon be opportunities to acquire new sites cheaply, clearing the way for it to double its base of superstores to 150 much sooner than expe ...

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