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• B&M’s share value was down roughly 17% 12 months to this point as of writing (16^th July) because of investor fears over slowing development for the UK’s main discounter. 
• Whereas FY25 is probably going going to be a 12 months of destructive like-for-like development at B&M’s UK shops, the sky will not be collapsing on the enterprise. In Q1 total group income was nonetheless up 2.4% year-on-year due to new retailer openings, nice buying and selling from B&M France, and Heron Meals persevering with to do effectively.
• We had been additionally instructed within the Q1 buying and selling replace that gross margins had been robust and the corporate is exiting the summer season months with a clear stock place. That its shopping for groups achieved this regardless of a poor summer season up to now weather-wise factors to the spectacular work in forecasting and buying B&M’s buying managers do. 
• Though free money stream goes to proceed lowering from the height of the lockdown-impacted pandemic years, B&M remains to be recording considerably greater earnings and money stream than it was pre-pandemic. With rising scale and the French enterprise rising rapidly and now worthwhile, we’re hopeful that may proceed. 
• At 13 occasions trailing earnings with a trailing bizarre payout of three.1% supplemented by pretty common particular dividends, we expect B&M is price contemplating this month.