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B&M European Retail

July 2019

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  • Epic Code:
  • BME
  • Price:
  • 347p
B&M is amongst the vanguard of discount retailers taking the market by storm and results showed revenues up 17% to £3,486m, while pretax profit rose 8% to £240m. Eps rose 11% to 19.7p.In the UK EBITDA rose 13.5% to £297m, with margins growing 0.45% to 10.6%. Like-for-like revenues grew just 0.7% (2018: 4.7%) with strong growth in groceries and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) offset by weak Homewares performance (c. 16% divisional sales). That meant like-for-likes grew 5.8% in Q4. Encouragingly, this year has started well with Q1 like-for-like sales up “mid-single digit.” It opened 54 new stores and closed 10, with another 50 planned in H2 Management have invested in a new 1m sq ft. dis ...

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