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Brickability

January 2021

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  • Epic Code:
  • BRCK
  • Price:
  • 52.75p
 With a vaccine shortly to be rolled out and UK  housebuilder shares surging again, now could be an auspicious time to revisit Brickability, which I highlighted last April.The company, which supplies around 300 million bricks to large and small house builders and contractors, showed resilience during the worst of the pandemic with trading sequentially recovering from its April trough. For the six months to 30 September, sales slid 23% to £75.3m, with pretax profit and eps down 28.5% and 27.5% respectively to £6.85m and 1.9p.But things should improve here on in. Net debt fell from £7.7m in March to £2.7m, even after settling £6.4m deferred acquisition consideration and liquidity is stro ...

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