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Easyjet - Should benefit from oil price fall

January 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • EZY
  • Price:
  • 1658p
Following its profit guidance upgrade last month, Easyjet duly announced an 18% jump in pretax profit to £686m on turnover up 4% to £4.7bn. Pretax margin jumped from 12.8% to 14.6% while return on capital employed increased 170 basis points to 22.2%. Eps rose 21.5% to 139.1p, with the dividend up the same amount to 55.2p although there wasn’t a special.Revenue per seat rose 1.5% year-on-year while capacity grew 5% to 75 million seats. Cost per seat fell 3.4% with £46m of sustainable savings delivered in 2015.Overall, a good performance considering the French strikes and Italian fires while the CEO believes any caution amongst travellers following the recent French terrorist attacks will eventually disa ...

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