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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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4Imprint

May 2024

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:
  • FOUR
  • Price:
  • 6450p
4Imprint’s results details had been pre-announced but it didn’t stop the shares racing to another record of 6450p. Who would believe these were just 276p in April 2012 when I first recommended them and since then, under long-time CEO Kevin Lyons-Tarr, eps have grown from 34 cents in 2010 to 377 cents in FY’23, up a third year-on-year. Sales and EBIT increased 16% and 33%, respectively, to US$1,327m and US$136.2m. Growth was driven by a 12% rise in order counts while gross margin increased markedly from 28.2% to 30.3% due to rising product prices more than off-setting cost increases (helped by normalising transport costs). Revenue per marketing US$ fell from US$8.86 to US$8.30 but it’s still above pre-Pandemic levels. The di ...

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