image

The best stocks to buy since 1993

Latest issue now available

On the Beach - Bookings accelerate from 7% to 18% (Q1 to Q3)

June 2025

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:
  • 262p
The shares look set to mount an assault on £3 before long with booking momentum appearing to ratchet up each quarter:  volumes +7% in Q1, +15% in Q2, and currently +18% in Q3 to date and OTB said it is on track for a record summer. This has been helped by OTB continuing to expand its addressable market, with 130 short and long-haul cities now live (up from 70 in February), and a brand presence in the Republic of Ireland said to be established.  Latest H1 results to March (seasonally the quieter half) show it continuing to take market share with TTV up 13% year-on-year to £640.7m, sales up 7% to £64.2m and pretax profit up 23% to £7.6m.  Working capital saw a one-off benefit from the Ryanair partnership to access flights wit ...

To access our archive of articles and to receive current issues you need to subscribe.

Subscribe now

Already a subscriber? Login

With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

All material on this website is protected by copyright. You may use Information retrieved from the www.scsw.co.uk website for your own personal non-commercial use which means that you may not sell or copy this information to any third party without prior written consent. ISSN 1358-183X

author

LIMITED PERIOD OFFER!

SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND SAVE £30 WITH OFFER CODE 30OFFSCSW

To access our archive of articles and to receive current issues you need to subscribe