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National World - Reach copy-cat with £19m cash for M&A

November 2021

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  • Epic Code:
  • NWOR
  • Price:
  • 31p
Over the month I met with Vijay Vaghala, CFO of AIM-listed National World, originally a cash shell that bought the Johnston Press Newspaper titles in January. National World is hoping to repeat the success of Reach (RCH; 344p) (a TMI recommendation in Feb ‘21 at 191p, now up 80%), which has significantly increased its proportion of higher margin digital sales in place of dead tree printing and early signs are encouraging. First half results for the six months ended 30 June were well ahead of expectations and broker Dowgate Capital has upgraded National World’s pretax profit forecast by 21% to £5.7m for new eps of 2.3p.National World was set up by Vaghela and David Montgomery in May 2019 to pursue opportunities in the news publishin ...

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