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Domino's Pizza - Strong like-for-like growth continues

May 2010

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Since our last update, Domino's has produced strong full-year results followed by Q1 trading figures for 2010, helping maintain the uptrend in the shares. For the year to 31 December, Domino's increased pretax profit 28% to Â£29.9m while eps rose 27% to 13.8p. This came largely thanks to an 8.4% jump in like-for-like sales for its 501 mature stores. During the year it opened 55 new stores, taking the total to 608. Meanwhile, in spite of the bad weather in January, Domino's latest update for the quarter to 28 March was also very encouraging with like-for-like sales up 10.5%, while the company opened a further 8 stores in the period.The shares, which we last buy-rated at 196p in February '08, have performed well. But w ...

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