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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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H&T

June 2021

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:
  • HAT
  • Price:
  • 301p
Pawnbroker H&T announced results ahead of expectations, mainly thanks to a change in accounting policy on impairment releases. Otherwise trends reported in January were largely unchanged with better H2 trading in Retail jewellery and Scrapping offsetting the pandemic-affected areas. Pretax profit fell 22.4% with eps of 32.1p (FY’19: 43.8p). Gross cash was £34.5m, benefiting from the sharp reduction in the pledge book from £72m to £48m while there’s a £35m undrawn bank facility. Although Numis has downgraded current year pretax profit forecasts from £12.5m to £9m (eps: 18.6p), they expect bounce-back to £17m (35.2p) in FY’22 and there could latterly be upside given ...

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