Good morning!
Coverage might be a little bit limited today but we'll see how it goes.
First up, I will mention the boohoo results:
Boohoo.Com (LON:BOO)
Share price: 184p (-3%)
No. shares: 1123.3m
Market cap: £2,067m
Gross profits are up 42%, growing at a lower rate than the 51% revenue increase:
- Revenue £294.6 million (2016: £195.4 million)
- Gross margin 54.6% (2016: 57.8%)
Profit before tax increases to £30.9 million (from £15.7 million).
The contribution from PrettyLittleThing begins from the start of January (until the February year-end).
Outlook:
The outlook comments remain positive:
Trading in the first few weeks of the 2018 financial year has made a promising start and we are excited about the prospects of our development into a multi-branded business. We expect group revenue growth approaching 50%(1) over 2017, which includes growth from the recent acquisitions, and a group EBITDA margin of approximately 10%."
The main boohoo brand is expected to grow revenue at a rate of 25%, with the rest of the growth coming from the acquisitions of PrettyLittleThing (which is expected to have an organic growth rate of 35%) and Nasty Gal.
So the expected organic growth rate across the group sounds a lot closer to 25% than the 50% total sales growth anticipated.
(work-in-progress)
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