RE: healthy buying this morning27 Feb 2020 07:57
No pick-up in trading during the 2nd quarter.
With most of the period complete, the Group now expects that first half profit will be significantly below the prior year level. As a result, management expect adjusted profit before tax for the 53 weeks ended 3 October 2020 will be materially below the bottom end of the current range of market expectations(1) ...
"While UK housing market indicators have shown an encouraging improvement in the period since the General Election, these traditionally have a lagged impact on our trading and we would not expect to see any benefit from these until later into the second half - our performance during this period will be key to the outcome for the year as a whole.