H&T’s 2024 results were reassuringly in line with expectations, delivering 10% PBT growth, with the pledge book capital value up 26%, retail sales up 27% and forex profits up 11%. The outlook remains positive, with i) strong demand in the core pawnbroking business where H&T is taking share and may have increasing acquisition opportunities, ii) consumer trends favouring its multi-channel, value-for-money, new and used product retail offering, iii) an expanding range of currencies helping forex gr...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Research on H&T (HAT): 2024 results: reasons to be cheerful 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 20-March-2025 / 07:00 GMT/BST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Hardman & Co Research on H&T (HAT): 2024 results: reasons to be cheerful 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 H&T’s 2024 results were reassuringly in line with expectations, delivering 10% PBT growth, with the pledge book capital value up 26%, retail sales up 27% and forex profits up 11%. The outlook remains positive, with i) strong demand in the core pawnbroking business where H&T is ...
In this month's feature article, we review the energy situation in the UK. On the domestic front, Ofgem has recently announced the new price cap figure of £1,849 for a typical household’s annual use of gas and electricity; this figure represents an increase of 6.4% over the January-March 2025 price cap. UK energy policy has changed of late, following the election of a Labour government last summer. The quest for Net Zero by 2030 – a hardly realistic target – is now a priority. Rightly or wrong...
2025: The year of the Phoenix, NOT the Unicorn The pursuit of Unicorn companies valued at $1bn+ will always be newsworthy and exciting. VCs, Private Equity, Governments and Global Stock Exchanges will continue to fight and clamber over one another for the chance of courting them. Our collective attention should therefore not be where support is needed least. Our attention needs to be diverted back to the exciting and unloved. The majestic Phoenix company; known for its ability to be reborn f...
Feature article: The October 2024 Budget - We got it wrong By Keith Hiscock, CEO at Hardman & Co In this month's feature article, we review the effects of the 2024 Budget and consider what might happen in the coming months. Our Hardman Monthly of October 2024 looked forward to the first Labour Budget for 14 years. The main theme was that, because the new Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, had ruled out increases in taxes on ‘working people’, investors would bear the brunt of any tax increases to fill ...
Feature article: Hardman & Co Healthcare Index, 2024 – Tough year for Life Sciences By Dr Martin Hall The main function of the HHI is to monitor the performance, and to highlight the attractiveness, of life sciences investments over the long term, and to try to identify those stocks that have disruptive technologies that consistently allow them to outperform both the index and the markets. Many of the 53 constituents of the index are high-risk, with micro-capitalisations and a long way from pro...
Feature article: “ROOM” (Running Out of Money) risk, How managing liquidity risk can sustain corporate value and maintain shareholder confidence As we come close to the end of a very challenging year for many UK entrepreneurs, as well as a frustrating period for shareholders, it is time to address one elephant in the ROOM! ROOM stands for “Running Out of Money”. The risk of doing so, or the perception that it could occur, can destroy corporate values and prematurely paralyse a business. While ...
Feature article: Labour’s first Budget - Investors in their sights? Summary ► Budgets are always important for investors. ► The imminent Budget, at the end of October, will be doubly so, because it is the first from the new Labour government, and it has already signalled the need to fill an alleged £22bn black hole, while ruling out changes to more than half the tax base. That implies a lot of the pain will be felt by investors. ► This paper considers the impact of increases in rates for th...
Feature article: The Tiktok generation are becoming “renegade” investors - How Gen Z’s investing habits differ from past generations As the landscape of investing evolves, a new generation is stepping onto the stage with fresh perspectives and unique approaches that are reshaping financial markets. At Hardman & Co, we’ve always been committed to understanding these shifts, and this month’s article delves into the rapidly changing ways in which Gen Z interacts with investment information and ma...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Q&A on H&T Group (HAT) | 1H24 results curate's egg of good and bad 30-Aug-2024 / 14:00 GMT/BST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Hardman & Co analyst interview | Finance and credit services Q&A on H&T Group (HAT) | 1H24 results curate's egg of good and bad H&T Group (HAT) is the topic of conversation when Mark Thomas, Analyst at Hardman & Co joins DirectorsTalk Interviews. In this interview, Mark offers insights into H&T Group's recent 1H'24 financial results. The discussion highlights both the positive an...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Research on H&T Group: 1H’24 results - Four-one at half time, but the one wins 20-Aug-2024 / 11:50 GMT/BST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Hardman & Co Research on H&T Group: 1H’24 results: Four-one at half time, but the one wins H&T 1H’24 results saw pre-tax profits rise 12.5% from 1H’23 to £9.9m. We have identified five key ongoing business messages, four of them favourable and one unfavourable. The scale of the latter, though, means we have reduced our FY’24 estimates by £3m, but still forecast dou...
H&T 1H’24 results saw pre-tax profits rise 12.5% from 1H’23 to £9.9m. We have identified five key ongoing business messages, four of them favourable and one unfavourable. The scale of the latter, though, means we have reduced our FY’24 estimates by £3m, but still forecast double-digit profit growth. The positive messages were i) strong demand for pledge lending (gross advances up 14% to £146m, ii) retail sales up 27% with an improving margin, iii) FX delivering double-digit profit growth, and iv...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Q&A on H&T Group (HAT) | Putting H&T Group’s pawnbroking business into a global perspective 15-Aug-2024 / 14:05 GMT/BST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Analyst interview | Financials Q&A on H&T Group (HAT) | Putting H&T Group’s pawnbroking business into a global perspective H&T Group Plc (LON:HAT) is the topic of conversation when Hardman & Co analyst Mark Thomas joins DirectorsTalk Interviews. In this latest interview, Mark Thomas discusses the global pawnbroking industry and its relevance to H&T ...
Feature article: Solid IICs, cash-consolidating REIFs Since the beginning of 2024, the share prices of Infrastructure Investment Companies (IICs) and Renewable Energy Infrastructure Funds (REIFs) have generally remained lacklustre, failing to recover from the losses experienced in 2023. A significant factor contributing to this trend has been the sharp rise in interest rates since 2021, which has negatively impacted the sector due to the increased yields on “risk-free” 10-year gilts. The recent...
In this note, we put pawnbroking into a global and historical context: i) the global market is large, ca.$40bn, UK just ca.5%; ii) pawnbroking is widely adopted across a range of cultures/geographies from China, India, Islamic countries to US, Europe and UK; iii) many UK immigrants are comfortable with pawnbroking from experiences in their country of origin; iv) the largest listed pawnbrokers trade at over 2x the PER rating of H&T with similar forward earnings growth; iv) it is generally a regul...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Research on H&T Group (HAT): Pawnbroking: the global perspective for H&T 23-Jul-2024 / 16:52 GMT/BST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Hardman & Co Research on H&T Group: Pawnbroking: the global perspective for H&T In this note, we put pawnbroking into a global and historical context: i) the global market is large, ca.$40bn, UK just ca.5%; ii) pawnbroking is widely adopted across a range of cultures/geographies from China, India, Islamic countries to US, Europe and UK; iii) many UK immigrants are comf...
23rd July 2024 * A corporate client of Hybridan LLP ** Arranged by type of listing and date of announcement *** Alphabetically arranged **** Potential means Intention to Float (ITF) has been announced, or it is a rumour Dish of the day Admissions: None Delistings: None What’s baking in the oven? ** Potential**** Initial Public Offerings: ITF announced: 8th July 2024: Rome Resources: The Canada-based early-stage resource exploration Company has announced its intention to IPO on AIM in order to co...
Feature article: UK life sciences needs more local institutional support to survive. For two years running, the Hardman & Co Healthcare index has declined, underperforming both the FTSE 100 and the FTSE All-Share indices. This is quite unusual for healthcare stocks. Apart from the general economic influences, which have made institutions more risk-averse, there was a common knowledge that several companies were in need of additional working capital; so, share prices were marked down in anticipa...
A director at H & T Group bought 9,965 shares at 387p and the significance rating of the trade was 53/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last two years clearly showing...
Feature article: Two worlds divided by a common language Summary Few people would deny that raising capital in 2023 and 2024 has been very challenging. The key components of the market, the “two worlds” of corporates and investors, are nowadays often far apart in how they assess value – pre-COVID, this was much less of an issue. This has resulted in frustration and inertia, which, on a sustained basis, can have a significant negative impact on companies and the economy. This issue needs urgen...
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