Hello, Share Stickers. With a nod to a previously mentioned attraction to companies with intriguing names, my today’s commendation is Escape Hunt (ESC). It does armchair gaming, but mainly real life stuff where you have to be physically there.
Tom Winnifrith has this morning described why Non-Executive Director of Escape Hunt (ESC) John Story is not fit to be a plc director and you have to ask what will Story sell to pay his next margin call? He has 10,447,599 Escape Hunt shares and this ‘escape-the-room experiences’ company has today made a trading update, with its shares currently up 10% to 38.5p in response. But for how long?...
Shares in “escape-the-room experiences” company Escape Hunt (ESC) remain ahead after my previous scepticism but are down today, further below 40p, despite a trading update including “revenue during the five-week period (to 20th June 2021) was 47 per cent. higher than in the same five-week period in 2019” and “estimated earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation at site level for the five weeks to 20 June 2021 was 310 per cent. of the site level EBITDA in the same five weeks in 2019”. So why the share price response?...
’Escape-the-room experiences’ company Escape Hunt (ESC) “is pleased to announce… it has exchanged contracts to acquire its French master franchise partner” and overall “is confident that both consumer and corporate demand will return strongly when the restrictions currently in place are lifted”. What’s the detail?...
A “Further progress in UK owner-operated estate” announcement today from ‘escape-the-room experiences’ company Escape Hunt (ESC). So, what is this progress and its financial implications?...
Escape-the-room experiences company Escape Hunt (ESC) “is pleased to confirm that the sites in England, other than those in areas designated 'tier 3' under the UK Government's Coronavirus tiered classification system, will re-open on 2 December” and “digital and remote play games… strong progress” – and the shares have currently responded more than 6% higher to 17.5p. But...
Escape-the-room experiences company Escape Hunt (ESC) has updated including “revenue over the week beginning 26 October 2020 which coincided with schools' half term week… was 25% ahead of the same period last year” and “EBITDA conversion ratios have been substantially better than in prior periods, assisted by more efficient labour usage”. However...
A “Further progress in UK owner-operated estate” announcement from escape-the-room experiences company Escape Hunt (ESC) though the shares, at 9.25p, are more than 5% lower...
An “Acquisition of Middle East Master Franchise and re-opening of Dubai site” announcement from ‘escape-the-room experiences’ company Escape Hunt (ESC) – and the shares currently 9.25p, 11.5% higher...
Self-styled “a global leader in the growing escape rooms sector”, Escape Hunt (ESC) “is pleased to announce its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2020”. The shares are currently at 8.5p, down from above 50p as recently as July last year...
Escape-the-room experiences company Escape Hunt (ESC) has updated including “trading in our UK owner-operated sites has been encouraging since we re-opened on 12 July… sales in the six weeks to 20 September… 72% of the same period in 2019… resulted in a positive site level EBITDA which was approximately 33% higher than the site level EBITDA in the equivalent six-week period in 2019” – and the shares have currently responded to 8p, 6.7% higher. However...
An announcement from escape-the-room experiences company Escape Hunt (ESC) and the shares currently at 9p, 20% higher on the back of it. Big news then?...
