It must have an effect further down the line I'd say.

I've had a small short @515.50 so here's hoping.

results due monday i think, so some profit taking likely

Been out this afternoon and no help now but just out of interest, this was in my inbox on return:

Date Broker name New Price Old price target New price target Broker change
20-Jul-12 Panmure Gordon Sell 519.00p 350.00p - Reiteration

Half Yearly Report


Financial Highlights

· System sales1 increased by 11.0% to £286.9m (2011: £258.4m)

· Strong operational gearing driven operating margins2, excluding Germany, to 20.9% (2011: 19.9%)

· Profit before tax2, excluding Germany, increased 15.2% to £23.3m (2011: £20.2m). Profit before tax, including Germany, after exceptional items, was £21.5m (2011: £19.0m)

· Like-for-like sales3 in 662 mature stores up by 5.2% (2011: 2.4% in 607 stores), 5.5% at a constant exchange rate

o Like-for-like sales in the UK increased 5.7% (2011: 3.4%)

o Like-for-like sales in the Republic of Ireland, in euros, up by 2.9% (2011: down 8.4%)

· Earnings per share2:

o Diluted earnings per share, excluding Germany, up 16.1% to 10.68p (2011: 9.20p)

o Basic earnings per share up 11.8% to 10.29p (2011: 9.20p)

o Diluted earnings per share up 11.6% to 10.16p (2011: 9.11p)

· Interim dividend increased by 20.0% to 6.60p per share (2011: 5.50p)

· Total of 23 new stores opened in the period (2011: 22 stores) with one closure (2011: 1) resulting in a total of 748 stores as at 24 June 2012 (2011: 688). On track for opening 72 stores during the year (2011: 62)

· Created over 600 new jobs in stores, expected to rise to nearly 2,000 by the year end

· Online system sales increased by 43.4% (2011: 50.9%) to £121.2m (2011: £84.5m) with online sales accounting for 52.4% of UK delivered sales (2011: 41.9%). Of this, 17.9% of online orders were taken through a mobile device

· Good progress being made in Germany, encouraging trading and four stores opened during the period (2011: nil)

· Strong balance sheet with adjusted net debt⁴ to EBITDA of 0.4:1 (2011: 0.4:1).

a bleak start for the market, but one would hope that these figures are good enough to buck the trend

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12 month high today.

i cashed in a respectable profit here yesterday as there are (should be) considerable concerns about the surge in corn prices due to severe drought in usa ..... this must surely have an impact on DOM's profitability

cynic they have already bought enough corn futures to cover their projected sales until 2013.

very sensible of them, but i'm still happy to have banked a nice profit

Acquisition of the business of Domino's Pizza Switzerland

Market Expansion

Domino's Pizza Group plc ("Domino's" or "the Company"), the leading pizza delivery company with stores in the UK, the Republic of Ireland and Germany, today announces it has reached an agreement to acquire the business of Domino's Pizza Switzerland AG("Domino's Switzerland") (the "Proposed Transaction"), including the master franchise agreement (the "MFA"), which provides the Company with the exclusive right to operate and franchise Domino's stores in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg as well as an option to acquire the Master Franchise Agreement for Austria.

Wednesday preview: Domino's Pizza
Tue 25 Sep 2012

DOM - Domino's Pizza Group

Latest Prices
Name Price %
Domino's Pizza Group 563.00p +0.72%
Homeserve 221.10p -1.51%

FTSE 250 11,931 +0.24%
FTSE 350 3,124 +0.34%
FTSE All-Share 3,058 +0.34%
Support Services 5,152 0.00%
Travel & Leisure 5,086 +0.94%

LONDON (SHARECAST) - Say what you like about Domino's Pizza - great delivery, shame about the pizza - the company is a money-harvesting machine.

The third quarter interim management statement on Wednesday should see the pizza delivery outfit benefit from the UK's indifferent weather, which will have persuaded many hungry diners to stay at home and order in instead.

Credit Suisse reckons the firm should achieve like-for-like sales growth of 3.5%, down from 6.9% in the second quarter, as it is going up against tougher comparatives, while the second quarter received a boost from the Euro 2012 footie tournament.

"The de-rating through 2011 rightly factored in a more modest growth outlook for the core UK business, and we see management commentary on Germany (bullish, but little detail) and Switzerland (roll-out) as more important share price catalysts," the Swiss broker said.

I.M.S: http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4452157

DOM always crashes on its numbers, rather like PFC and no doubt others ....... as far as i can see, the numbers are very healthy and the forward forecast is also positive, so looks like a buying opportunity to me, though unsure whether or not to commit more funds to the market today

Domino's

Domino's Pizza fell 31p (5.4%) to 533p today, after an impressive rise that has taken the shares all the way from around 420p in early April -- even after the drop, they're still up nearly 30% since then.

The news today took the form of an interim statement, which told of an 8% increase in sales to £136.4m, and like-for-like sales in the UK and Ireland continuing to grow. But the reason the markets weren't impressed seems to be that UK like-for-like sales growth has slowed -- at 3.7%, it didn't grow as fast as the 4.1% recorded in the same quarter last year.

Director Patricia Thomas sells 100,000 shares! http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4453306 SP down 2.5% so far.

More Director sells, Hemsley and Wray this time: http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=44627299

Up nearly 5% so far this morning, upgrades somewhere?

nothing on reuters ..... very strange

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as far as i can determine, there's a few small orders to fill at 523/524.5 and then nothing back to 520 ...... a string of brokers looking to buy at 512/515 or thereabouts

GS upgrade.

Goldman Sachs Buy 515.25 505.50 680.00 800.00 Upgrades