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Cake Box (#CBOX) – franchisee store LFL sales +6.8%, “on track to deliver year-on-year revenue growth, in line with market expectations”

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A graphic display of why Cakebox will struggle over the next year

I realise that the cakes made by CakeBox (CBOX) are not strictly comparable with those you can buy at Tesco, Aldi, or for metropolitan elitists like my pal Jonathan Price, Waitrose. Cakebox cakes contain no eggs so are great for Hindus (1.7%of the population) and vegans ( 4.5%). And there are some with a sweet tooth and, almost certainly type 2 diabetes, like Lucian Miers who really dig the taste. But...

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Cake Box (#CBOX) – FY EPS -32%, DPS +7%, recent 11 weeks LFL franchise sales +5.4%

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Cake Box – “full year trading update”, why’s “like-for-like sales growth” detail now omitted?

Cream cakes specialist retail franchise company Cake Box (CBOX) states that it “is pleased to announce a full year trading update for the 12 months ended 31 March 2023” and the shares have currently responded approaching 6% higher to 125p on the back of the update. However, what’s the detail of the announcement, with the shares still down from 200p just last summer?

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Cake Box (#CBOX) – H2 “positive like-for-like sales growth”, expects adj. PBT “in line with market expectations”

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VINDICATED AGAIN: CakeBox: Dismal interims, don’t believe in the jam promised tomorrow: Told y'all!

Cakebox (CBOX) has already warned that results for the six months to 30 September would be piss poor and it did not disappoint but folks who have lost a packet ignoring our numerous red flag warnings had a straw to clutch at, one covered with jam tomorrow.

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Cake Box (#CBOX) – H1 EPS down to 3.72p, DPS 2.625p, argues “on track” to achieve FY expectations

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Cake Box – appointment of a joint broker “with immediate effect”, now why might that be?

Specialist retailer of fresh cream cakes Cake Box Holdings (CBOX) states that it “is pleased to announce the appointment of Liberum Capital Limited as joint corporate broker to the company with immediate effect”. With the shares currently down, to 108p, in response, why might the market not be pleased?

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Cake Box (#CBOX) – appointment of Liberum as a joint broker

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Cake Box (#CBOX) – appointment of Michael Botha as CFO, good luck chap!