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Hostelworld

August 2020

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:
  • HSW
  • Price:
  • 63p
Could this be a turning point for the shares after a torrid period? Hostelworld has raised £14m via a placing (19.9% at a 7% discount) and put in place new bank facilities (Eu7m, plus a separate Eu3.5m facility) which, alongside its existing net cash of EU15.2m, provides improved liquidity to trade through Covid-19. Separately, the group has also initiated cost reduction measures, including cutting all brand marketing and furloughing some staff, to mitigate the sharp reduction in trading volumes. As a result, it now expects an H1 20 EBITDA loss in the range of Eu8m-Eu9m (H1 ’19 EBITDA profit: Eu8.9m). Estimated monthly cash costs are expected to reduce to Eu1.9m. Hostelworld expects the vast majority of ...

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