Yes you may be right - and RTN have carried on up after my recent sell - heyho!

comparative market performance with RTN (red)

Interim Management Statement

The Company has continued to make solid progress since the half year. System sales for the period were up by 10.4% to £140.9m (2012: £127.6m) with year to date system sales up by 11.1% to £437.9m (2012: £394.1m). Despite the impact of an extended period of unusually warm weather, like-for-like sales in the period in the 669 mature stores were up by 4.0% (2012: 3.7%) with a strong end to the last two periods of the quarter. Year to date like-for-like sales were up by 5.6% (2012: 5.1%).

Online sales also continue to grow strongly, with digital sales now accounting for 62.4% of UK delivered sales (2012: 58.4%) in the period. Total online sales for the period rose by 19.8% to £72.3m (2012: £60.4m) and have reached £230.7m for the year to date (2012: £177.6m). Mobile sales continue to rise sharply, up by 102.5%, and now account for 29.3% of total online sales.

During the period, Domino's opened eight new stores in the UK with 23 new stores now open this year. As well as the usual planning challenges, we introduced a new store design in early 2013, which pushed back the opening schedule towards the latter part of the year. We now anticipate opening around 50 stores this financial year. At the period end, Domino's had a total of 750 stores in the UK (2012: 700).

Domino's continues to place marketing at the heart of the business and, during the period, we launched a new above and below the line advertising campaign, 'Greatness', which premiered on UK & ROI primetime TV. Domino's also undertook a major TV sponsorship deal in the UK, partnering with The X Factor App and further cementing the brand's ownership of the Saturday night TV experience.

International

System sales in the Republic of Ireland rose by 3.7% to €11.5m in the period (2012: €11.1m) and year to date were up 4.5% to €36.1m (2012: €34.6m). Like-for-like sales have now seen nine periods of consecutive positive growth and, in the quarter, were up by 2.4%, despite the warm weather in the period as mentioned above. Year to date like-for-like sales were up 5.2% (2012: 1.2%). During the period, a high profile marketing activity saw the brand sponsor the primetime Friday night entertainment programme 'The Hit', which helped underpin the sales growth. There are 48 stores in the Republic of Ireland (2012: 48).

The German market generated system sales in the period of €2.8m (2012: €1.0m) and like-for-like sales of 9.4% (2012: 16.8%). Year to date, system sales were up 336.4% to €7.4m (2012: €2.2m) and like-for-like were up 18.7% (2012: 20.9%). The franchisee stores continue to make good sales progress and at higher sales levels than the corporate stores.

At the end of the period, Germany had 25 stores in total, 15 of which were corporate stores. No new stores were opened in the period (2012: zero), the year to date total therefore remaining at seven (2012: four).

As highlighted at the interim results, the decision has been taken to transition the majority of the German corporate stores across to franchisee management as soon as practicable. The business is making good progress with this process and we are confident that a good proportion of these stores will have transferred into franchisee hands by the year end.

Switzerland continues to perform well with system sales in the period of CHF 3.0m and like-for-like sales rising by 4.7% and 6.2% for the year to date. At the end of the period there were 10 stores (2012: 12) in this market.

Take your pick :-

Numis Buy 607.50 589.00 710.00 710.00 Reiterates

Canaccord Genuity Sell 607.50 589.00 500.00 480.00 Reiterates

N+1 Singer Hold 607.50 589.00 550.00 550.00 Retains

not a bad call in a shit market was it :-)

Well done cynic, nice trade.

just got out at 612 ..... a nice though not huge profit for <48 hours investment

Its nice when it works like that - well done cynic.

sp recovering time to get back in?

Trading Statement - 08 Jan 14

Trading Update


United Kingdom

Domino's is pleased to announce that trading has been particularly strong in the period buoyed by exceptional like-for-like sales growth. System sales for the period were up 15.6% to £170.4m (2012*: £147.4m). Like-for-like sales in the period in 670 UK mature stores were up by 10.9% (2012*: 4.5% in 613 mature stores) partly driven by increased digital marketing activity and more favourable timing of the Christmas break compared to last year.

System sales for the 52 weeks ended 29 December 2013 increased by 12.2% to £608.8m (2012*: £542.8m). Like-for-like sales for the year, in UK stores, grew by 7.0% (2012*: 5.2%).

Online sales continue to grow and accounted for 65.5% of UK delivered sales (2012*: 60.8%) in the period. Total online sales for the period rose by 15.7% to £94.4m (2012*: £81.6m) and online sales for the year were £325.9m (2012*: £256.0m). Mobile sales were up by 91% in the period (2012*: 187%) and accounted for 30.9% of total online sales in the year (2012*: 19.7%).

During the period, Domino's opened 27 new stores in the UK (2012*: 25) with 50 new stores (42 traditional delivery stores, six kiosk stores in Extra motorway service stations, one kiosk in Newcastle University and one mobile unit) opened this year (2012*: 57). At the period end, Domino's had a total of 777 stores in the UK (2012*: 727). During the year no stores closed (2012*: 2).


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that must be the first time ever that DOM has risen on results - it usually bombs

Final Results

Financial Highlights

· System sales1 increased by 14.0% to £668.8m (20122: £586.5m)

· Profit before tax3, including Germany and Switzerland, of £47.6m, up 1.9% (2012: £46.7m)

· Profit before tax3, excluding Germany and Switzerland, increased 11.6% to £55.2m (2012: £49.5m)

· Adjusted diluted earnings per share, excluding Germany and Switzerland up 10.3% to 25.6p (2012: 23.2p)

· Like-for-like sales4 growth of 7.0% in 670 UK mature stores (20122: 5.2% in 612 mature stores)

· Earnings per share (pre-exceptional items):

o Diluted earnings per share up 8.6% to 23.9p (2012: 22.0p)

o Basic earnings per share up 8.1% to 24.0p (2012: 22.2p)

· Statutory basic earnings per share 10.7p (2012: 19.0p)



· Pre-tax exceptional costs of £27.5m of which £26.5m relates to impairments and other exceptional charges within our German business



· Final dividend increased by 11.4% to 8.80p per share (2012: 7.90p) bringing the total dividend for the year to 15.90p per share up 9.7% (2012: 14.50p)

· 57 new stores opened in the period (2012: 69 stores) with four closures (2012: two) resulting in a total of 858 stores in four countries as at 29 December 2013

· Online system sales increased by 28.2% to £338.0m (20122: £263.7m) with online sales accounting for 61.5% of UK delivered sales (20122: 56.1 %). Of this, 30.9% of online orders were taken through a mobile device (20122: 19.7%)

· Strong balance sheet with adjusted net debt5 to EBITDA3 of 0.3:1 (2012: 0.5:1)


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27 Mar 2014 Domino's Pizza... DOM Numis Buy 538.50 546.00 710.00 710.00 Reiterates

SP Target 710p

funny old share this one
i used to follow and trade it for quite a long time, but as the chart shows, it has rather stagnated

i am now of the opinion that RTN is a better bet, though DOM may well present a decent short-term trade at some point

Bang on uptrend line.

Get it bought cyners.

really?
expecting bounce off 25 dma or is there something else i don't see? ..... ah yes, my eye can follow the support line you mean



by the way, where would you recommend to eat in naples?
i'm staying near the ferry terminal or whatever its called

Cynic,

Naples im based in St Pauls Malta.

If you want to get their......

Naples to Valetta,

taking a ferry from Naples to Catania, then another ferry from Catania to Valetta, then onto St Pauls over land.

i have good reasons to go to malta as have been developing a couple of clients there
hope you're not just using malta as a tax haven - what a terrible thought :-)

i jut thought you said you'd been to naples loads of times; hence the question