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JD Sports Fashion - Terrific 133% gain to date

June 2017

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A terrific 2017 already for JD, which has surged from 315p to 449p and is now well up since we wrote about the shares at 192.5p in November ‘15 (adjusted for last November’s five-for-one share split).Driving them on were results that achieved NEXT year’s forecasts a year early with pretax profit for the year ending January ’17 increasing 56% to £244.7m (forecasts: £225m) on sales that rose 31% to £2.38bn. As Peel Hunt says, “this reflects what the right product, well merchandised, can achieve in the current environment...while it’s skilfully exploited the trainer (and athleisure) trend tail-wind that’s off the Beaufort Scale.”Eps increased 54% to 19p while net ...

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