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Safestyle - Another rise in market share

June 2015

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The shares broke higher after Safesyle, the double glazing windows specialist, unveiled solid maiden full-year results with sales, pretax profit and eps rising 9%, 10% and 11% respectively to £136m, £16.8m and 16.5p. Strong cash generation meant net cash increased from £5.2m to £8.5m.The group undertook a record 57,682 installations with volume of frames installed increasing by 7% to 267,642. Market share also grew to 8.5% from 7.9%, its tenth consecutive year of growth. Average order value increased 3.8% to £2,806 while average unit sales price rose 1.6% to £504.Broker N+1 Singer, which has a target price of 230p, forecasts eps of 17.1p this year, rising to 18.4p next while the divid ...

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