Hotel Chocolat Share Discussion Threads

[nithbank] 27/9/2017 07:40

Preliminary ResultsHotel Chocolat Group plc, a premium British chocolatier and omni-channel retailer, today announces its preliminary results for the period ended 2 July 2017.Financial highlights: -- Revenue of GBP105.2m (2016: GBP91.1m), growth of +12% year on year(1) -- Underlying EBITDA (2) up 32% to GBP16.3m (2016: GBP12.4m) -- Profit before tax up 100% to GBP11.2m (2016: GBP5.6m) -- Profit after tax up 115% to GBP8.8m (2016: GBP4.1m) -- Earnings per share up 100% to 7.8p (2016: 3.9p) -- Maiden dividend of 1.6p per share Operational highlights: -- Strong sales growth across retail, digital & corporate channels -- Opened 12 new stores in the period taking Group total to 94 stores -- Now have 15 Shop+cafe format stores, giving the ability to trade well in a wider variety of catchments -- GBP4m upgrade of truffle making production line complete; truffle making capacity increased by 70% -- 6 new wholesale accounts since period end -- Opened 2 franchised stores to date in Hong Kong

[martynporter79] 27/9/2017 07:31

Great set of results.

[nithbank] 25/9/2017 16:30

Anticipation of good results this week I hope.

[nw99] 25/9/2017 14:36

Looking good

[dolgyn] 22/9/2017 13:01

Graph starting to look like the Pi
ton peak.

[pugugly] 19/9/2017 20:53

Come to have a look as a user of their gift service - selection and delivery fine but possilby expensive though very well recived, however even after the share price fall the valuation is to me very full - Revenue for last year from rns £105M - and current market cap of £276M at mid price of 245/255p

Last targets I can find are FinCapp 276 & Liberum (house broker so RTG of) 376. Even without the hurricane effect current price is (imo) to the high side - Remember increase pressure on household disposable income and significanlty increased retail competition.

Was significant wind and rain on St Lucia but not nearly so severe as the other islands -

[nithbank] 19/9/2017 17:46

Interesting very large buy at close. Results due 27th... about time this started climbing again.

[bookbroker] 19/9/2017 09:34

Be surprised if this cos. chocolate estate on St Lucia entirely unscathed by the latest hurricane, Maria, if so thank goodness for HOTC!

[nw99] 13/9/2017 10:33

Look to buy this dip

[nithbank] 11/9/2017 15:42

The Board expects to announce the Group's preliminary results for FY17 on 27 September 2017.Buying opportunity ahead of dividend announcement?DYOR

[nw99] 27/8/2017 06:58

Great news

[nithbank] 27/8/2017 06:37

Hotel Chocolat heads easthttp://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4f62dfdc-8a91-11e7-a841-b272e13cae83New Hong Kong store announced.

[nw99] 22/8/2017 17:22

65,000 buy

[nw99] 17/8/2017 08:09

Thx I have just looked up my sharewatch and they are very bullish I am buying more today

[nithbank] 17/8/2017 08:01

Nw99- there's been quite a bit of nervousness in the retail sector recently, but the price drop here has been overdone. The recent trading update showed a 12% revenue increase and a bumper dividend will soon be introduced for the first time. It's a quality company, great product and brand. AIMHO.

[nw99] 17/8/2017 07:19

Low compared to its high I meant

[alfie4048] 17/8/2017 07:10

Explain low...in terms of likely profit and dividend yield. Etc etc..

[nw99] 16/8/2017 16:22

Why is the share so low any reason for reason sell off

[nw99] 16/8/2017 16:13

Charts support here I have bought

[nithbank] 15/8/2017 22:33

Maybe now that's out of the way the share price will start climbing again.

[ajb29] 15/8/2017 17:40

Gengulphus many thanks for your thoughts on that, much appreciated.

[gengulphus] 15/8/2017 16:50

Looking at the trade list, and in particular the fact that the ~4 million shares' worth of trades basically all happened in a pretty short time period just after 14:30, were all at a price of 270p and did not change the price in any major way, I would guess that it's a big negotiated trade.

I.e. basically a market maker found a big buyer, a big seller and probably some smaller buyers or sellers to make up a difference in the numbers of shares they wanted to trade, negotiated 270p as a price acceptable to all parties, and put it through. It will have appeared as separate reports of trades between the market maker and each of the parties, with ~2 million shares being bought by the market maker and about the same number sold, and the market maker was probably paid by a separate fee rather than a price spread, so all the trades were at the same price - and because 270p was closer to the low end of the 269p/273p spread at the time than the high end, the computers classified them all as sells...

A possible alternative is that a single investor decided to re-arrange their holdings and chose to do it through the market, again paying a market maker by a separate fee. I would tend to think that the number of trade reports is on the high side for that, but it's certainly not impossible.

Gengulphus

[ajb29] 15/8/2017 15:19

Actually registering on the volume as more than 4 million sold, which graphically at least looks to be more than were bought when it first listed?!

[michaelvecchia] 15/8/2017 15:11

@ajb29 I don't understand why....

[ajb29] 15/8/2017 15:07

More than 2.5 million shares sold today?