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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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H&T

November 2016

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:
  • 235p
Having surged to a high of 300p shares in pawnbroker H&T came off in spite of excellent half year results showing pretax profit and eps rising 42% and 44% respectively to £3.7m and 8p. Net debt reduced by £2m to £6.9m.While the pawnbroking industry is struggling with legacy over capacity issues you wouldn’t know it scanning H&T’s key metrics. In pawnbroking, although gross profit was unchanged at £14.1m, the pledge book increased 4% to £39m helped by a new distribution channel and an increase of aged pledges. The outlook is encouraging with a significant number of competitor stores continuing to close while if the rise in gold prices, from an average £852 in H1 ’16 to th ...

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