Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY)

Sector:

Media

Index:

FTSE 250

624.00p
   
  • Change Today:
      3.00p
  • 52 Week High: 754.00
  • 52 Week Low: 530.00
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 81.61m
  • Volume: 166,930
  • Market Cap: £509.24m
  • RiskGrade: 201
  • Beta: 0.01

BMY Overview

The Group's Mission is to grow a high quality global publishing business delivering high value to its contributors, readers and shareholders. Our overall growth strategy and long-term focus remains unchanged; to invest in high value intellectual property, to publish works of excellence and originality, to build our diversified portfolio of content and services across our Consumer and Non-Consumer Divisions, and to diversify into digital channels to build quality revenues and increase earnings.

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Financials

Latest F'cast
Div Yield 2.4% 0.0%
Div Cover 3.2 2.4
Op Mrgn 11.8% 11.2%
ROCE 30.2%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 13.2 16.6
PEG 0.3 n/a
Pr/Revenue 1.5 1.4
Pr/Book 2.5  
Latest F'cast
Revenue 29.7% 4.8%
PBT 63.3% -2.9%
EPS 52.6% -20.9%
DPS 25.0% 4.9%

BMY Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
29-Feb-20 162.77 13.23 16.45p 14.9 1.7 +9% 1.28p 0.5%
28-Feb-21 185.14 17.35 18.93p 14.2 0.9 +15% 8.86p 3.3%
28-Feb-22 230.11 22.18 26.43p 15.4 0.4 +40% 10.74p 2.6%
28-Feb-23 264.10 25.42 31.07p 13.5 0.7 +18% 11.75p 2.8%
29-Feb-24 342.65 41.49 47.40p 11.5 0.2 +53% 14.69p 2.7%

a. Based on UK GAAP presentation of accounts - includes discontinued activities

BMY Forecasts

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
28-Feb-25 359.03 40.28 37.48p 16.6 n/a -21% 15.41p 0.0%
28-Feb-26 349.02 44.20 41.01p 15.2 1.6 +9% 16.20p 0.0%
28-Feb-27 356.22 46.40 43.30p 14.4 2.6 +6% 17.00p 0.0%

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BMY Company Announcements

Appointment of Joint Corporate Broker 15-Apr-2025 07:00 RNS
Trading Update and Board Appointment 20-Mar-2025 07:00 RNS
Notice of Trading Update 03-Mar-2025 07:00 RNS

BMY ShareCast News

Bloomsbury Publishing sees FY ahead of forecasts 20-Mar-2025 ShareCast
Bloomsbury Publishing inks new long-term supply ... 24-Jan-2025 ShareCast
Director dealings: Bloomsbury Publishing directo... 26-Nov-2024 ShareCast

BMY Top Newspaper Links

Bloomsbury looks for some Harry Potter magic to ... 24-Oct-2014 Telegraph
Bloomsbury suffers as e-books lose their magic 24-Oct-2014 The Independent
Publisher sees rise in profits 21-May-2014 The Herald

Latest BMY Director Deals

No deals were found in the last 28 days.

Note 1: Prices and trades are provided by Digital Look Corporate Solutions and are delayed by at least 15 minutes.

Note 2: RiskGrade figures are provided by RiskMetrics.

Note 3: Above ratios are on a 'per annum' basis, adjusted for corporate actions and based on the fundamentals of the primary listed security.

Note 4: Under IFRS, all figures are based on 'Continuing' operations unless otherwise stated.

Note 5: In the case of dual listed securities, broker recommendations and forecasts relate to the primary listing.

Note 6: Forecast figures based on normalised accounts.

 

BMY Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 624.00p
Change Today 3.00p
% Change 0.48 %
52 Week High 754.00
52 Week Low 530.00
Volume 166,930
Shares Issued 81.61m
Market Cap £509.24m
Beta 0.01
RiskGrade 201

BMY Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
more star ratings
Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
55.34% below the market average55.34% below the market average55.34% below the market average55.34% below the market average55.34% below the market average
65.85% below the sector average65.85% below the sector average65.85% below the sector average65.85% below the sector average65.85% below the sector average
Price Trend
43.96% above the market average43.96% above the market average43.96% above the market average43.96% above the market average43.96% above the market average
72.09% above the sector average72.09% above the sector average72.09% above the sector average72.09% above the sector average72.09% above the sector average
Income
11.32% below the market average11.32% below the market average11.32% below the market average11.32% below the market average11.32% below the market average
29.41% below the sector average29.41% below the sector average29.41% below the sector average29.41% below the sector average29.41% below the sector average
Growth
89.05% above the market average89.05% above the market average89.05% above the market average89.05% above the market average89.05% above the market average
68.42% above the sector average68.42% above the sector average68.42% above the sector average68.42% above the sector average68.42% above the sector average

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 4
Buy 1
Neutral 0
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0
Total 5
strong_buy
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BMY Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Interim Final
Ex-Div 31-Oct-24 25-Jul-24
Paid 29-Nov-24 23-Aug-24
Amount 3.89p 10.99p

Trades for 13-May-2025

Time Volume / Share Price
16:41 15,000 @ 625.00p
16:41 15,000 @ 625.00p
16:36 4,670 @ 624.00p
16:35 47,254 @ 624.00p
16:35 15 @ 624.00p

BMY Key Personnel

CEO Nigel Newton

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