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Luceco

November 2023

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Although Kingfisher, 215p, downgraded guidance due to weakness in Europe, its UK division was a rare bright spot with Screwfix, a “hybrid” retailer supplying jobbing builders and home owners and a major customer of Luceco, continuing to gain market share. That helped Luceco’s interims beat forecasts (this after an earlier upgrade in July) and Liberum has upgraded FY’23 eps forecasts by 12%. Although revenue fell 5% to £101m, EBIT profit was ahead of expectations at £10.8m (£10.5m forecast). This reflected previously flagged de-stocking, but that’s over now while underlying gross margin improved a massive 800 basis points to 42% as input costs (copper, freight) fell back and it was only hedging losses (USdollar v Chinese remnimbi) ...

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Luceco - Three directors buy shares (January 2025)

Luceco (November 2024)

Luceco (September 2024)

Luceco - Q1 profit +30% (July 2024)

Luceco (May 2024)

Luceco - First acquisition for two years (April 2024)

Luceco - Trading ahead of expectations (March 2024)

Luceco - Leverage falls below 1x (January 2024)

Luceco - Margin growth drives 8% profit upgrade (September 2023)

Luceco - CEO John Hornby upbeat on margin recovery potential (June 2023)

Luceco - Net debt to be virtually eliminated by FY24 (May 2023)

Luceco - Net debt / EBITDA just 0.8x vs forecasts of 1.3x (March 2023)

Luceco (December 2022)

Luceco (June 2022)

Luceco - Acquires DW Windsor (December 2021)

Luceco - Gain to date: 209% (May 2021)

Luceco (March 2021)

Luceco - Another towering upgrade (December 2020)

Luceco - Shares hit new high of 221p (November 2020)

Luceco - 23% eps forecast upgrade (September 2020)

Luceco - Huge upgrade (August 2020)

Luceco (May 2020)

Luceco (March 2020)

Luceco - Soon to be prospective PE just 11.2 in spite of excellent growth record (November 2019)

Luceco - Cheap on prospective PE of 10.8 (October 2019)

Luceco - Forecasts upgraded; new price target 80p (March 2019)

Luceco (July 2018)

Luceco (April 2018)

Luceco (February 2018)

Luceco - Gain to date: 65% (November 2017)

Luceco (September 2017)

Luceco - Eps beats forecast (May 2017)

Luceco - Emerging LED lighting products business eyes eps growth of 15-20% p.a. (December 2016)

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