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When we look back on 2014 the market share gains by discounters in the retail sector will be one of the investment themes that will be remembered. There is therefore a certain correctness in the timing of the Poundland (PLND) IPO earlier this year. Unsurprisingly if you were lucky enough to buy some shares early on in its life as a public company you are currently at a capital loss but let’s not be too critical at least the business has shown a bit of form over the last few quarters. It is not easy to generate a 4.7% like-for-like sales growth as Poundland did over the last six months.
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Comments
Hutch
Nice note. Didn’t they say 50% generated in the Xmas quarter?
Chris Bailey
I took the numbers from the corporate presentation: 30% of sales, 50% of ebitda and 63% of pre-tax profit. All quite hefty percentages! Thanks for reading/commenting, appreciate it.