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Hollywood Bowl

July 2020

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  • Epic Code:
  • BOWL
  • Price:
  • 185p
The shares seemed dead and buried at 68p just before lockdown started but have recovered well to 185p, although there’s some way to go to reach the old high of over £3.Interims for the six months ended 31st March show revenues rising 3% to £69.2m while pretax profit fell 6.7% to £14.5m. Eps were down 8% to 7.7p. It currently has 62 Hollywood Bowl centres with an average size of over 28,000 sq. ft, much larger than most rivals. Three refurbishments were completed in H1, whilst ‘pins on strings’ (technology allowing speedier repairs and less down time for the machines) has now been introduced to 15 centres and a new scoring system has been rolled out to 40 centres. The average return on ...

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