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On the Beach

January 2026

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • OTB
  • Price:
  • 71.5p
OTB bounced strongly after another record-breaking FY25, with Total Transaction Value hitting £1.25bn, up 11%. Growth was powered by a widening product mix - including City Breaks and the launch into Ireland. Pretax profit was up 20% to £35m, with EPS increasing 45% to 19p.  For me there were three keynotes to the results. First, the new initiatives of City Breaks and Ireland only represent 4% of TTV but are scaling. Notably, cruise holidays have now also been added to the repertoire. The year saw more cities (x7), more hotels (2.7x) and more airlines (x1.5x). Second is the margin expansion and increased marketing efficiency being seen. OTB has enhanced its digital capability, including a new  App, with which it can push of ...

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