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And just last year, it began offering personalised cards through its website, allowing it to compete with its newest rivals, Moonpig and Funky Pigeon.
It also sported a sizeable market share, of 30% by volume and 20% by value.
The key to its success was its ability to mass produce cards at a fraction of the cost of most retailers, boosting its margins, Meddings said.
In the year before the pandemic it turned a pre-tax profit £65.8m on sales of £451.5m.
"Card Factory is well-run with a profitable business model, at least pre-Covid anyway. It has also expanded its sales into Aldi and Matalan stores. It may be a long road ahead, but there is optimism. Buy."
BP PLC (LON:BP) has the most misunderstood investment case of all the ‘large cap’ oil and gas companies, that’s according to analysts at Barclays which now mark it as their top pick in the sector.
The Barclays analysts believe that BP’s switch to low carbon will eventually be rewarded by investors but, in the meantime, they see the price being driven by the underlying hydrocarbons business.
Barclays rates the stock as ‘overweight’ and with a 475p price target the analysts see some 48% upside to the current price of 320.4p.
“Our analysis shows the cashflow generation of the business as having the ability to support a 10% cash return to shareholders in the form of dividends and buybacks in a US$60 per barrel environment - the highest in the sector,” Barclays said in a note.
couldnt win a game of snap against a a guy that stutters.
fingers crossed everyone my luck is out marstons amigo i thought were gonna fly today i was contemplating on topping up here but decided against it and went for the 2 above oh dear what a school boy error. gla
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/every-brit-needs-drink-124-24104984
Order book of $7.1bn, up c9% on 31 December 2020 with good
growth in Consultancy and Operations
-- Q1 2021 slower than anticipated but with improving momentum:
relatively robust activity in Consulting and lower activity
in Projects and Operations
-- Q1 EBITDA down on same period last year but margins relatively
robust: high utilisation, successful delivery of Future
Fit programme efficiencies and improving project execution
largely offsetting lower activity
-- 2021 Outlook unchanged. Lower activity anticipated driven
by Projects, offset in part by strength in Consulting and
Operations activity. EBITDA margin to grow modestly
-- Strong progress on ESG targets: 8% reduction in carbon emissions
and over 30% female representation in senior leadership
roles
just added whilst its low i agree i think this will rocket next monday.
whilst the price is low just added a few more
back in the blue
if you had a million shares would you sell at a low or high price earning 100 million top price or sell at low price 70 million no brainer to me so why would they seriously sell at a level lower than average.