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Paragon - Introduce stop-loss of 297p

July 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • PAG
  • Price:
  • 307p
Sentiment continues to run against buy-to-let (BTL) lender Paragon due to increased stamp duty on second homes, a regulatory tightening in lending criteria and a controversial tax aimed at private landlords. Nevertheless Paragon still released creditable half year results with pretax profit up 12.5% to £72.2m in line with forecasts and boosted by a first time contribution from Paragon Bank Asset Finance (formerly Five Arrows Leasing). H1 BTL completions rose almost 85% YoY to £824m but looking into H2 its new mortgage business pipeline was down 50% to £351m as Paragon tightened its criteria by increasing interest rate affordability stress test from 5% to 5.35%.Paragon Mortgages reported underlying profit of £ ...

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