Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY)

Sector:

Media

Index:

FTSE 250

600.00p
   
  • Change Today:
    -2.00p
  • 52 Week High: 754.00
  • 52 Week Low: 518.00
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 81.61m
  • Volume: 83,425
  • Market Cap: £489.65m
  • 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% 11.3%
ROCE 30.2%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 12.7 18.2
PEG 0.2 n/a
Pr/Revenue 1.4 1.6
Pr/Book 2.4  
Latest F'cast
Revenue 29.7% -0.3%
PBT 63.3% -7.0%
EPS 52.6% -22.7%
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-25 341.65 38.58 36.63p 16.4 n/a -23% 15.41p 0.0%
28-Feb-26 346.58 44.30 40.93p 14.7 1.3 +12% 16.20p 0.0%
28-Feb-27 353.22 46.40 43.16p 13.9 2.6 +5% 17.00p 0.0%

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BMY Company Announcements

Trading Update and Board Appointment 20-Mar-2025 07:00 RNS
Notice of Trading Update 03-Mar-2025 07:00 RNS
Holding(s) in Company 24-Feb-2025 16:27 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 beats forecasts with popular fiction ... 21-Mar-2025 Times
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

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 600.00p
Change Today -2.00p
% Change -0.33 %
52 Week High 754.00
52 Week Low 518.00
Volume 83,425
Shares Issued 81.61m
Market Cap £489.65m
Beta 0.01
RiskGrade 201

BMY Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
56.34% below the market average56.34% below the market average56.34% below the market average56.34% below the market average56.34% below the market average
70.73% below the sector average70.73% below the sector average70.73% below the sector average70.73% below the sector average70.73% below the sector average
Price Trend
48.11% above the market average48.11% above the market average48.11% above the market average48.11% above the market average48.11% above the market average
66.67% above the sector average66.67% above the sector average66.67% above the sector average66.67% above the sector average66.67% above the sector average
Income
14.09% below the market average14.09% below the market average14.09% below the market average14.09% below the market average14.09% below the market average
17.65% below the sector average17.65% below the sector average17.65% below the sector average17.65% below the sector average17.65% below the sector average
Growth
87.41% above the market average87.41% above the market average87.41% above the market average87.41% above the market average87.41% 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
Broker recommendations should not be taken as investment advice, and are provided by the authorised brokers listed on this page.

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 27-Mar-2025

Time Volume / Share Price
16:35 25,798 @ 600.00p
16:35 48 @ 600.00p
16:35 4 @ 600.00p
16:35 4 @ 600.00p
16:35 4 @ 600.00p

BMY Key Personnel

CEO Nigel Newton

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