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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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B&M

January 2021

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:
  • BME
  • Price:
  • 494p
Shares in B&M spiked to 536p ahead of interims, which revealed a pleasing 25p special dividend alongside an impressive 128.5% increase in pretax profit to £253.6m on a 25.3% rise in sales to £2,242m. Eps were 20.1p (H1 ’20: 8.8p). A clear lockdown winner given its essential status and consumers spending more on food and other goods within the home.Q3 has started in similar vein to H1 and B&M has stated that EBITDA will be in the range of £600m-£650m, ahead of consensus EBITDA forecasts of £571m, with “like-for-like sales growth slightly ahead of H1” but it’s expected to moderate over the rest of the year as lockdown restrictions ease.In the UK, revenues rose 29.5% ...

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