RE: JP Morgan panic to close the shorts???!!!21 Aug 2025 10:45
The undertone of the update that accompanied the disposal of Claremont suggested a building frustration (MM + BOD) with the market's refusal to recognise inherent value here. Some here have suggested the 24p JPM target reflects the profit warning. I take that point, but it is absurd to think that a globally scaled company, with core market leading brands - across both Beauty and Nutrition - with £1,700,000,000 revenues and an EBITDA of £75m, currently returning to growth, can be valued at a mere £312m.
I think it was telling that all we were told about THG beauty, was "H2 has also started well for THG Beauty, with an improved revenue growth rate."
Let's see, but there's real possibility that a blockbuster RNS is not too far off announcing the sale of one of the obvious Beauty contenders: Bentley Labs, hopefully - clearing debt, with some change for share buy backs. I do think that would make the market sit up and take proper notice that the perpetual doom spiral, here is, well, doomed.