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Poundland - Â£50m placing to fund takeover of 99p stores

November 2015

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The competition and markets authority (CMA) has announced full clearance of the merger with 99p Stores with the CMA acknowledging that there’s a much wider competitor base than it initially thought.Canaccord notes that 99p stores’ sales densities are estimated at around half that of Poundland’s £380 per sq. ft. Assuming this gap will close, both in terms of sales density and their respective EBITDA margins, and also assuming other cost savings, the broker has set a valuation of 398p-465p. It also notes that current three year (FY ’15-’18) pretax profit forecasts of 11% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) will be upgraded to 19% CAGR. The only cloud is recent news that given the longer-than-anticip ...

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