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H&T - Rising gold prices could boost lending

September 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • HAT
  • Price:
  • 290p
Brexit? What Brexit? This is what investors in pawnbrokers, H&T, will be thinking as, if anything, the recent turbulence has helped gold prices rise and as most customers’ collateral for its loans is gold jewellery (potentially increasing new business) it’s not hard to understand why the shares have risen sharply to 290p.H&T also confirmed that it expects full year pretax profit to be in line with market consensus expectations, having made a good start to the year with the combined pledge and personal loan books increasing almost 11% to £45.2m (30 June ’15: £40.8m).The development of a new format for pawnbroking services focused on larger loans at lower interest rates meant the pledge boo ...

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