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Dunelm - CEO purchases c.£250K shares

September 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 525p
Given the long heat wave, investors were probably expecting a severe profit warning but Dunelm was far more resilient with fourth quarter sales for the period to 30 June showing like-for-like sales broadly flat  - and that against tough comparatives last time. The result reflects continuing market share gains – apparently it’s trouncing John Lewis – and online growth of 41.8%, offsetting store like-for-like sales declines of 4.6%. Nevertheless, full year sales of £1,050m (+9.9%) were marginally below expectations (Stifel forecast: £1,052m), the shortfall coming from the Worldstores business.Dunelm also expects pretax profit to be £102m (FY’17: £109m) including trading losses from ...

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