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Game - Broker sets 200p share price target

June 2002

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Shares in Game, formerly Electronics Boutique, touched a new high of157p before falling back, after excellent final results. Pretax profit, before one-off rebranding costs of Â£5.2m, rose 143% to Â£31.5m. Diluted earnings increased 91% to 4.76p. Current trading remains buoyant with like-for-like sales up 26% in the first 12 weeks to April. Thedriver of this computer game retailer's sensational performance hasbeen the inexorable growth in the installed base of Playstation 2 gaming consoles, up from 1.7m units in February to over 2m now. Initial sales of Microsoft's X-Box were disappointing,but the recent price cut from Â£299 to Â£199 (from 26 April) should give sales a shot in the arm. Meanwhile, ...

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