Bloomsbury Publishing19 May '22
...from last year...
Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house with a rich portfolio of authors who have won Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. Most notably, they are the originating publisher of the Harry Potter series. With offices across Europe, USA, Australia, and Asia, company’s strategy is to discover and nurture quality authors, expand internationally, and increase digital resources revenue.
Full year results reported in June are well ahead of expectations. Revenue reached £185m and boosted diluted EPS with 9%, at 18.68p. Good performance gave the opportunity for dividends to be raised as well and the Group announced a special dividend of 9.78p. Outlook for the start of FY 2022 is positive, based on good momentum. BMY’s expectations for FY22 are for profits to be ahead of current consensus.
Short analysis (FY2020):
Cash went up by 73%
Net debt comfortably negative, as cash covered levels of short- and long-term debt
CA/CL = 2.27
Cash ratio = 0.70
P/S = 1.61 , which is in line with industry average
BV ps = 206, growing at a 3.09% CAGR
Operating profit was £17.8m, more than 30% above 2019 result
Gross profit Margin was 54%, healthy increase from 2019
...from WealthOracleAM
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