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Vistry

November 2021

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Housebuilder Vistry has pleasantly upgraded full year guidance again to c. £345m from £330m for 2021, sending the shares back over £12. Vistry’s first half revenue growth was 4% but EBIT margin lift off was more impressive, going from 3.2% in H1 ’20 to 13.9%, for adjusted pretax profit to £166.3m.In House Building it completed 3,126 homes (FY20: 1,235) at an EBIT margin of 17.4% (2.5%). Partnerships completed 895 mixed tenure homes (489) which alongside a 5.1% increase in EBIT margin to 9.1% led to a near trebling in profit to £35.5m.Net cash was £31.6m (H1 ’20: net debt: £357m) but is set to climb to £225m cash at the year end.Numis forecasts eps of 126p ...

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