A week ago I wrote on a half-year trading update from arts and crafts, stationery, toys and books retailer TheWorks (WRKS), reviewing how “resilient” is its performance?. That, of course, included noting its cash flow – with it emphasising that its “financial position remains strong with net cash of £11.0m at the period end” and also noting that it “fully reflects the build of stock prior to the peak trading season”. Now a “Correction: Half-Year Trading Update” announcement.

Previously writing on arts and crafts, stationery, toys and books retailer TheWorks (WRKS), in September with the shares at 37.75p I reviewed emphasises “strong” full-year results, but is the company right to be ‘confident in its prospects’?. So what now with the shares most recently closing at 34.5p and currently further lower on the back of a “Half-Year Trading Update”?

Arts and crafts, stationery, toys and books retailer TheWorks (WRKS) has announced results for its year ended 1st May 2022 and that “there is confidence in the group's prospects”. So what of a share price currently up to 37.75p?

Arts, crafts, stationery, toys and books retailer TheWorks (WRKS) has announced results for its half-year ended 31st October 2021 and an update on subsequent trading which currently has helped the shares up by more than 14% to 64.6p, a £40.4 million market cap. So what’s the story?…

Value retailer of arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery including trading from 527 stores across the UK and Ireland, TheWorks.co.uk (WRKS) has announced a trading update emphasising “a resilient” year ended 2nd May 2021 performance and recent “encouraging” sales. How resilient and encouraging?…

A “Half-year trading update” from value retailer of gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery, TheWorks.co.uk (WRKS) – and the shares currently at around 21p, more than 25% higher…

Retailer of arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery TheWorks (WRKS) has updated including “the company plans to re-open 465 stores across England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland next week and will look to re-open its remaining stores in Scotland and Wales as soon as possible thereafter” and “the board continues to be confident in The Works' proposition and the re-opening of its stores significantly improves its trading outlook”… and the shares have currently responded higher to 26.4p...

Retailer of arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery TheWorks (WRKS) has updated on its year ended 26th April 2020, initially emphasising a return to positive momentum in the second half… “prior to the COVID-19 outbreak”...

How different it was eighteen months ago when Investec raised £62.5 million  at 160p to IPO Theworks.co.uk (WRKS). Just think about how much coke and how many hookers you could snaffle from crony capitalist Investec’s fees on that deal! Hmmmmmm. You bring the hookers, I’ll bring the Charlie, the lads at Investec are ‘avin’ a party. Today, after just avoiding yet another profits warning, the CEO has been resigned with immediate effect and the shares are just 33.9p. Ouch.

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This operator of 525 outlets flogging gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery raised a stonking £62.5 million at 160p, c/o crony capitalists Investec in July of last year. Just imagine the fees it earned on that deal. Coke and hookers all round. After a profits warning today shares in TheWorks (WRKS)  are just 44p and the company will pretty soon be in net debt, in fact I suspect it already is. Yikes. Cue the ShareProphets National Anthem below….

“TheWorks.co.uk plc (WRKS), the multi-channel value retailer of gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery, announces today a trading update covering the 52-week period to 28 April 2019… like-for-like sales growth of 3.0%... Returns on new stores in the period have been particularly strong”… And a current approaching 20% share price decline, below 100p?...