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H&T - Acquisition of best Money Shop stores boosts prospects

October 2019

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  • Epic Code:
  • HAT
  • Price:
  • 375p
A period of rising gold prices usually provides a pleasant tail-wind for pawnbrokers, who are in the business of lending money to retail customers secured against their rings and other gold jewellery.In the case of industry stalwart H&T, management are not in the crude business of exploiting rising gold prices to simply ramp up loan capacity against customer’s jewellery because as CEO John Nichols, who we are spoke with over the month, notes, what goes up inevitably falls down, with gold having traded violently between credit crunch lows of £400 / oz in ’08 to a recent high of £1263 (helped by weak sterling versus US$). However, rising gold prices do encourage more business at its stores, as recent ...

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