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Spire Healthcare

November 2024

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.

  • Epic Code:
  • SPI
  • Price:
  • 233.5p
Interims were a touch below forecast with EBITDA up 11% to £130.6m on sales up 13% at £762.5m. However, full year guidance is unchanged with £15m targeted cost savings being H2 weighted. Private Medical Insurance (PMI) grew nearly 10% to £336m with average revenue per customer up 4.2%, reflecting an increase in referrals and ongoing growth of the medical insurance market. Self-Pay declined 3% to £173m, driven by competitiveness and some patients of working age switching into PMI. NHS sales grew 5% to £179m thanks to increasing referrals and a small uplift to prices while the emerging “Other Services” (including mental health talking therapies and musculoskeletal) rose by half to almost £25m. It’s a slow burn for now ...

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