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Reach

September 2026

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Reach’s H1 numbers are ugly on the surface. Sales fell 9% to £233m. Print was down 8.3% and digital 11.4%. On-platform page views dropped 40%, largely because Google referrals collapsed - although they stabilised in Q2. The statutory accounts show a £43.5m operating loss after impairments, amortisation and restructuring costs. To contain the damage, Reach cut costs by10.3% - well ahead of the 5-6% target - to leave operating profit at £43m, only 4% lower than expected, and the margin was up to 18.5%. Net debt was £20m better than expected at £47.5m, or 0.4x EBITDA and Reach expects full-year profit in line with the market’s £96m consensus (EPS of 22.9p). The main problem is Google’s referral traffic has been hammered, dra ...

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Reach (April 2025)

Reach - Trading ahead of expectations (February 2025)

Reach - Deutsche sets 190p target (November 2024)

Reach - Q2 Digital revenues back in growth (September 2024)

Reach (June 2024)

Reach (April 2024)

Reach - Publishers to benefit from Google Chrome cookie removal (November 2023)

Reach - Material cost programme benefits to come (August 2023)

Reach - H2 looks more promising (April 2023)

Reach (February 2023)

Reach - Singer sets 295p share price target (November 2022)

Reach - H2 should see improvement; PE of 3.2 (August 2022)

Reach - Deep Value in a FIFA World Cup year (June 2022)

Reach Prospective - PE of 4.3 (March 2022)

Reach - Digital continues to accelerate (December 2021)

Reach - Shares soar £1 over the month (August 2021)

Reach - Profit forecast upgraded by £5m this year and next (June 2021)

Reach - Highest operating margin for six years - value unlock coming (April 2021)

Reach - I expect it to be in the running for FTSE-250 soon enough (February 2021)

Reach - Q3 benefits from sharp revenue recovery and transformation programme (November 2020)

Reach (October 2020)

Reach (May 2020)

Reach - Results beat expectations (March 2020)

Reach - Accelerates digital transformation (February 2020)

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