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Card Factory

March 2015

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:
  • CARD
  • Price:
  • 270p
Card Factory released a solid update covering the crucial Christmas market with revenues increasing 8.1% in the 11 months ended December 2014. This was driven by a combination of 1.8% like-for-like sales growth, 51 new stores opening (taking the total to 764 stores) as well as further growth in its online business.In the current year ending 31 January ’16 it has a strong pipeline of opening opportunities and expects to add another 50 outlets.With Christmas takings safely booked the shares, which trade on a prospective PE of 14.7, should now be able to move higher. Continue to hold.  ...

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