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Dunelm - Homeware supremo targets 300 stores

August 2013

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 1010p
Dunelm shot over £10 after a better than expected Q4 update. Against the very strong Q4 last year when Dunelm had seen like-for-likes up 10.4%, analysts had been expecting Q4 to come in softer. As it was, Dunelm achieved -2.8%, much better than the consensus, whilst Q4 gross margin was also strong with an 80 basis point improvement mainly driven by direct sourcing. At the year-end having added 14 new stores, Dunelm operated from 126. Including these, revenues for the full year grew by 12.2% to £677m whilst like-for-like grew by 1.7%. UBS forecast eps of 39.8p, lifting to 44.7p this year. No longer cheap on a prospective PE of 22 but with an overall game plan of 200 stores, we th ...

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