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Hollywood Bowl - Record number of openings planned

March 2025

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.

A recent TMI winner has been ten-pin bowling operator Ten Entertainment, a main write-up in June 2022 at 250p and a NAP for 2023 at 244.5p which was subsequently acquired by Trive, a Dallas-based private equity firm, in January 2024 at 412.5p. As welcome as the rapid gain was, there was always a suspicion Ten was bought on the cheap, with the prospective PE of 12.9 offering a wafer thin premium for its potential. But the effect of Ten’s exit has also been to place a scarcity value onto Hollywood Bowl, the largest ten-pin operator in the UK and Canada and now the only quoted player in London, and my eye has been caught by several director share purchases with the Chairman recently acquiring 140,000 and CEO 13,200 at prices between 300-320 ...

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