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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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H&T

July 2024

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:
  • HAT
  • Price:
  • 394p
Pawnbroker H&T, which has just gone ex a 10.5p final dividend, said while lending activity has been strong,  rates of redemptions, whilst seasonally high, have left the overall loan book unchanged at £101m (before the recent acquisition of Maxcroft, which added £4m). The non-pawnbroking operations have traded in line, with Retail encouragingly also seeing an anticipated improvement in margin back towards normal levels. A net two stores have opened with 8-12 targeted this year. With the prospective PE just 6.9 (forecast FY’24 eps: 57.2p) and Shore Capital nudging its fair value higher to 530p, I am a strong holder. ...

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