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Dunelm - Worldstores acquisition dents profits

March 2017

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 618p
The shares were marked down after Dunelm guided to higher than expected forecast FY’17 losses of £10m (previous guidance: loss of £5m-£10m) from its recently acquired Worldstores. In the six months ended 31st December ‘16, sales rose 2.8% to £460m but pretax profit fell 13.6% before exceptionals to £65.2m. Eps was 25.6p. Aside from Worldstores’ losses of £1.8m in its first five weeks, the results reflected disruption from changes to its supply chain, unhelpfully mild weather and a slowing in its homewares market from +2% to minus 2% since Brexit.Like-for-like sales in its stores fell 3.1% to £389.4m, although its home delivery business rose 20.1% to £33.7m. Gross mar ...

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