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JD Sports Fashion - Sports retailer on track to beat low-ball forecasts

November 2015

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  • Epic Code:
  • JD.
  • Price:
  • 963p
Shares in JD Sports Fashion, one of the UK’s largest retailers of trendy trainers, football boots and sports clothing, have more than doubled over the past year as investors have warmed to an impeccable trading performance that has seen pretax profit increasing from £60.5m to £100m in the two years to January 2015. The strong momentum has shown no recent signs of flagging with results for the seasonally weaker six months ended 1 August showing pretax jumping 82% to £47.6m. The performance is supported by a perfect storm of factors, ranging from better spending power amongst its brand conscious customers (aged 15-24), to improved ranges from its key suppliers and the fact that trainers have never been so popular fo ...

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