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SSP Group - Big margin improvement

July 2016

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Shares of airports and railway food services operator SSP have stubbornly gone sideways for 18 months but a post results spike on the back of contract wins and cost initiatives suggests an overdue break-out could be on the way.Those interims showed a 6% rise in sales at constant currency to £897m (like-for-like 3.3%) while a big jump in operating margin of 0.5% to 3.4% powered a 28% increase in profit to £30.9m as CEO Kate Swann’s cost cutting magic starts coming through. Eps rose 43% to 3.0p while net debt was £375m (H1 2015: £381m).Growth was driven by increased passenger numbers and cost cuts in the UK where profits rose an impressive 47% to £26.5m (eye opening operating margin up 2.2% t ...

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