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Quarto Group: 1 director bought
A director at Quarto Group bought 400,000 shares at 100p and the significance rating of the trade was 66/100. 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 show...
- Fiona Orford-Williams
Publishing performance in line
Quarto’s year-end update indicates that the publishing operations have delivered the performance as expected, despite challenges in the UK retail market and the tailing off of the colouring book trend. 2016’s acquisitions have done notably well and our forecasts are unchanged. A buyer has been found for Australian/New Zealand distributor, Books and Gifts Direct (BGD), which will allow greater focus on opportunities for the core publishing business. Net debt of $62.2m was ahead of end FY15 du...
Ford Equity International Rating and Forecast Report
Ford Equity International Research Reports cover 60 countries with over 30,000 stocks traded on international exchanges. A proprietary quantitative system compares each company to its peers on proven measures of business value, growth characteristics, and investor behavior. Ford's three recommendation ratings buy, hold and sell, represent each stock’s return potential relative to its own country market.. The rating reports which are generated each week, include the fundamental details behind...
Accretive US expansion
Quarto’s $9.8m acquisition of the becker&mayer publishing assets is in line with its strategy of expanding in the US and in children’s publishing and should be usefully earnings enhancing in 2017e. Interim results showed positive progress, with revenue up by 8%. We have increased our revenue and profit forecasts to reflect the acquisition (2017e EPS up 4%). The balance sheet continues to strengthen, with H116 net debt reduced by US$8.5m to $72.5m. Despite a strong relative share price performanc...
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