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Mark Thomas

Morses Club (MCL): FY18: carefully controlled, sustainable growth

The FY18 results saw adjusted pre-tax profits £1m and statutory profits £2.7m ahead of our expectations. MCL has focused resources on optimising the potential from the market leader’s self-inflicted woes and so increased its agent franchise by over 20%, adding high-quality customers. This focus meant that, despite the strong lending growth, impairments as a percentage of revenue fell in 2H on 1H. Historical conservative provisioning sees the conversion to IFRS9 having a much smaller impact on receivables than peers. New business streams are being introduced to continue growth. Our range of valuation methodologies is currently 171-197p.
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Morses Club

Morses Club is a United Kingdom consumer finance business in the Home Collected Credit market. Co.'s customers are served by self-employed agents, as well as employees based across 98 branches. Co. operates through a series of local branches based all over the UK. Co.'s field management team operate from these branches, working with its network of self-employed agents.

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