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Safestyle

November 2015

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.

The shares inched to a new high of 257p after Safestyle, the double glazing windows specialist, released solid results with revenues and pretax profit rising 7% and 2%, respectively, to £74m and £9m. Cash increased by £6.4m to £14.9m.The volume of frames installed increased by almost 4% to 141,712 while its market share increased from 8.5% at end of 2014 to 9.5%. Average unit sales prices increased almost 3% to £517. Its outperformance partly reflects a smooth online marketing operation, which increased the number of leads by 12% to 31,095, while on 1 June it launched several new finance offers including 24 months interest free credit.Encouragingly, gross margins rose 0.8% to 37.2% thanks to pric ...

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