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Marstons

January 2019

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  • Epic Code:
  • MARS
  • Price:
  • 100p
In spite of the high profile restaurant closures and Brexit uncertainty, Marstons put out final results reassuringly in line, with revenues up 15% to £1,140m while pretax profit rose 4% to £104m. Eps fell 2% to 13.9p, reflecting more shares in issue to fund the Charles Wells brewing assets. The biggest cheer was it held the final dividend of 4.8p (yield is 4.8%). Net assets per share were 151p, comprising mostly pub freeholds.Destination & Premium (406 pubs) grew profit 1% to £89.4m reflecting poor weather and industry cost pressures like national living wage, business rate rises. 14 pub restaurants and seven lodges opened in the year.Taverns (1139 mainly tenanted and franchised pubs) grew profit 2.4% to ...

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