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CARD Card Factory Plc

91.20
-0.10 (-0.11%)
Last Updated: 11:07:50
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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Card Factory Plc LSE:CARD London Ordinary Share GB00BLY2F708 ORD 1P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -0.10 -0.11% 91.20 160,077 11:07:50
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
90.80 91.50 91.30 90.70 91.30
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Greeting Cards 463.4M 44.2M 0.1289 7.08 312.65M
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
10:40:03 AT 86 91.20 GBX

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19/3/202409:47CARD FACTORY - InvestorJohn5,963
16/1/202407:56CARD FACTORY - SET FOR RECOVERY?385
19/11/202211:51CARDFACTORY - SET FOR RECOVERY?19
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15/8/202214:04CARD rocketing to lockdown ending could double?7

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Posted at 19/3/2024 08:20 by Card Factory Daily Update
Card Factory Plc is listed in the Greeting Cards sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker CARD. The last closing price for Card Factory was 91.30p.
Card Factory currently has 342,817,357 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Card Factory is £312,649,430.
Card Factory has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 7.08.
This morning CARD shares opened at 91.30p
Posted at 02/2/2024 18:00 by darrin1471
Having expressed concerns about retail sales in December, I thought CARD did well and shareholders were unlucky to see the share price fall.
No updates due before the end of April may see CARD drift lower but there is not much downside from here. Risk reward is on the upside
The 10% rise in NLW has been well flagged and CARD have shown they are able to navigate higher input costs without losing sales.

Retail in general will struggle with NLW, but those on low wages should have more spending power. More homeowners will move onto higher fixed rates and have less spending power. Lower priced imports may not be passed onto consumers as retailers offset NLW and boost margins.
Retail in general may experience swings in investor sentiment but CARD is better positioned than most.
Posted at 21/1/2024 16:24 by bbonsall
I wouldn’t be surprised if CF issues an RNS at the end of the month confirming repayment of final instalment of Covid loan.
Then it might mention dividends that some have criticised CF for not mentioning in the trading update.
Just remember CARD share price has been £4 in the past when its EPS was not much more than it is now. No more shares are in issue now than were in issue then either.
This deserves a serious re-rating IMHO.
Posted at 17/1/2024 08:14 by monte1
UK’s biggest greetings retailer sees double-digit sales growth with single festive cards up 37%

Positive momentum has seen Cardfactory deliver double digit like-for-like sales growth to £476.9million as store revenue climbed by 7.8% in November and December.

CEO Darcy Willson-Rymer applauded the UK’s largest greeting card retailer’s “strong performance over the Christmas period” in the trading statement coving the 11 months to 31 December, 2023, which was released yesterday, 16 January,

Improvements in stock management and replenishment processes enabled the company to capitalise on “particularly strong demand in the second half of December”, as l-f-l store sales in the last two months of the year were up 7.8%.

The retailer saw strong year-on-year growth in seasonal cards, driven by an increased number of transactions and average basket value – open card sales grew by 37%, which Cardfactory said was due to the range development, the continuing To The Pet trend saw a 49% rise, and Wife captions rose by 41%.

And an expanded gift offer and introduction of key licensed ranges is credited with a 45% increase in soft toy sales, and confectionery going up by 77%, marking a combined gifts and celebrations essentials growth of 9.9% l-f-l.

The company said the 10.2% uplift in total sales to £476.9m reflects “continued momentum across the business and execution of our strategy to become the leading, omnichannel retailer in the sector”, and the store revenue’s overall 8.2% l-f-l growth was said to be driven by the value and quality proposition and “the positive impact” of the store evolution programme.

There has also been a “continued positive performance” in everyday and seasonal card ranges, with growth hitting 5.4% in the 11-month period, while there has been a “profitable contribution” from the new partnerships with Matalan and Liwa Trading Enterprises, and the recently-acquired SA Greetings arm in South Africa contributed £9.1m revenue.


Given the strength of performance in the year to date, the Cardfactory board expects to deliver full-year adjusted profit before tax, excluding one-off items, at the top of the range of market expectations – between £58.4m and £62m – and said it “remains confident in the achievement of the long-term financial and operational targets” set out at its capital markets strategy update in May 2023.

Darcy added: “We are pleased to have delivered a strong performance over the Christmas period, further demonstrating the progress we are making on our strategic growth initiatives.

“Our value and quality proposition continues to resonate with customers at a time when value for money is as important as ever. Even during challenging times, consumers want to celebrate key life moments and this was reflected in the positive performance that we saw in the Christmas trading period and throughout the year to date.”

“Colleagues across all areas of our business have worked incredibly hard to deliver an improved experience for our customers this year. As we look ahead, we remain focused on delivering against our growth strategy by helping our customers to affordably celebrate all life’s moments.
Posted at 16/1/2024 23:05 by bbonsall
eeza
Thank you for posting that link.
Just illustrates how incompetent some of these city scribblers are. Focusing on online performance to throw a negative light on CARD is out of all proportion to the contribution online makes to total revenue. CARD is a successful retailer with shops contributing a huge chunk of revenues. Moonpig has almost exactly the same number of shares, its revenue is far below Card Factory’s, its EPS is a lot less, its PE is far higher and so is its share price.
Why the scribblers express concern over future growth when CF’s share price does not reflect the growth of the past two years is cynical.
The worry about future growth is not relevant until the share price is at least £2.50.
The share price of most companies reflects revenues, profitability, cash generation, dividend distribution. Apparently CF is different! Why is that?
Posted at 07/1/2024 09:24 by darrin1471
Old story but I can't remember seeing it posted here: 04/10/2023

Cardfactory’s coo Adam Dury shared the value retail giant’s data which is gained from its annual survey of 4,500 respondents, now in its sixth year commissioned through Dynamic Data, where “we’re not far off an 80-20 mix between stores and online”.

He added: “We know our customers have found things tough, but celebrations remain incredibly resilient. Our view of the UK retail market, is that we believe it’s worth £1.4bn and we’ve had a view that the markets about £1.4bn for a couple of years and for first time ever, all three views from the GCA, Kantar and ourselves have come within about £80million of each other.

“We believe that 40m UK adults buy greeting cards per year, last year that equated to 73% of the nation, this year it’s 80%, again, reason to believe that more people are engaging with this category across the entire industry.”

Explaining that Cardfactory manufactures 160m cards each year in its Printcraft facility, which are sold across its 1,032 stores as well as the online shop, Adam said sales wise, the retail group now has close to a 50-50 split between cards and gifting but this will probably grow gifting accounting for 54% within three to four years.

“Cards are super important,” he said, “but it’s also important you have the gifts to go with it. The whole gifting market is worth £13.4bn in the UK,” although Cardfactory is looking at a £10bn market as that covers relevant products such as soft toys, confectionery and speciality.

And the retailer has identified a clear opportunity with the younger generation, with Adam showing a slide which he described as “telling us that the younger audience are really into cards” and adding that he hoped “lots of eyes will open with huge reasons to believe, lots of optimism, a huge positivity”.

Adam added: “The 16-to-24-year-olds now have the highest cards per buyer rate, and that’s been a continuing trend since 2020. We as a business and we as an industry have a huge responsibility to work with this group and help when they come on the card journey.

“There’s clearly probably three life stages in there, secondary education, possibly university and first stages of a family, we work with that group now and think about what they’re telling us, ‘I like people to know I’m thinking about them,’ and this is their words to us, ‘a card is more personal than an email or text’ – must remind my 13 year old, because I’m sure he’s not quite there yet – ‘cards can be a keepsake for special occasions’, and ‘this is a nice way to connect with people’.

“As feedback from that age group, it’s just another brilliant reason to believe in the industry. The headline message is that we should look ahead with a huge amount of confidence.”
Posted at 23/12/2023 09:14 by bbonsall
Just been doing a comparison between Moonpig and Card Factory.
Importantly the shares in issue are nearly identical, (343.4 million v342.8 million respectively).
Last declared full year results.
Revenue MOON. £320m
Revenue CARD. £463m
Pre tax profit MOON. £34.9m
Pre tax profit CARD. £52.4
EPS MOON. 7.8
EPS CARD. 12.9
Share price MOON. 163.6p
Share price CARD. 106.9p
PE ratio MOON. 21.1
PE ratio CARD. 8..27

Just shows how differently the market views CARD, I can’t see why.
Posted at 16/12/2023 10:38 by darrin1471
CARD share price 31/01/2020 (pre covid) 88.6p
Posted at 12/12/2023 10:54 by riverman77
I personally couldn't care too much what CR is doing, but there were a few inaccurate posts on here that I wanted to put right. However, ultimately the CARD share price will depend on how the comapny performs, not what some tipster is doing.
Posted at 30/11/2023 18:03 by bbonsall
1224saj
There certainly is something wrong. It’s the utter failure of the market to acknowledge everything that has already been confirmed about the profit, cash generation, debt reduction and rapid growth of Card Factory.
These things are not figments of imagination or wishful thinking, they are confirmed facts.
Even without further progress, the published performance for the past 18 moths easily justifies a share price of more than £1.60.
Remember the share price hardly dropped below 40p when CF shops were closed, losses were mounting, debts were rising and fears of a £70 million fund raising were mounting! A clear illustration of how the current share price radically undervalues CF.
Posted at 23/11/2023 17:12 by bbonsall
As is often the case, the share price fall is not justified by the trading pattern. Buys to sells ratio was 2 to 3. Out of more than 300 million shares in issue less than 1 million were traded today. And the share price is chopped by more than 7% - really!!
With what has already been published on the performance of CARD a share price north of 150p would still be a bargain!
Card Factory share price data is direct from the London Stock Exchange

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