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Carphone Warehouse - 385,000 TalkTalk customers

July 2004

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.

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After giving detailed guidance in a recent trading statement there was little new news to add in its  results for the year to 30 April.  Pretax profit grew 34% to £76.3m and earnings nearly 30% to 6.8p,bang in line with expectations.   In the distribution division, which comprises Carphone's shops, its share of customer's phone bills and insurance services, operating profit grew by 52% to £67m. Highlights included 23% increase in connections, a 4% increase in spend per customer and a 5% increase in store space (74 stores) with 1,214 now open. In Carphone's Telecoms Services side (operating profit up 51% to £15m) the brightestspot was in the fixed line operations with Opal, the business to business network p ...

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