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Topps Tiles - Price target increased from 75p to 100p

July 2021

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  • Epic Code:
  • TPT
  • Price:
  • 74p
The shares broke to new highs after results were ahead of forecast. For the six months ended March, pretax profit was £5.1m, a £2m beat. Q1 sales rose a staggering 19.9% like-for-like but Q2 fell 17.3% due to the third lockdown. While business rates relief provided support (£4.4m), Topps also generated underlying cost savings of £4.2m. Since the April re-opening, trading has been resurgent, with like-for-like sales up 16.8% against FY’19. Even better, the growth was driven by retail customers, which improved the gross margin mix. Encouragingly, turnover at the Commercial Division fell only 10% with management reducing dependence on hospitality & leisure from 40% to 10% divisional sales, while ...

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