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4Imprint - 18% order book growth blows out forecasts

September 2023

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  • Epic Code:
  • FOUR
  • Price:
  • 4925p
The shares spiked £8 to above £52 at one point and are now £12 above my main write-up price in last September’s issue. The catalyst was another upgrade to full year guidance with turnover expected to be “slightly above US$1.3 billion” and pretax profit materially above current consensus of forecasts and not less than US$125m.” This was driven by strong order growth (+18%), improving gross margin (benefiting from input cost deflation and tactical pricing), strong returns on marketing  and expansion of operational capacity. As we go to press, it has also announced interims with operating profit up 45% to US$63.8m (op margin +1.25% to 10%) and eps up 48% to 176.2 cents. Liberum has upgraded full year pretax profit and eps by 1 ...

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