Is this enough to justify the premium rating given to the company's shares? Forecasts of

Is this enough to justify the premium rating given to the company's shares? Forecasts of a sharp drop in occupancy rates and average revenues per bed as local authorities eked out their fixed budgets by limiting admissions and driving down fees have proved to be exaggerated. This is all the more encouraging because Takare is in the midst of an extremely rapid growth phase involving physical expansion of between 20 and 30 per cent a year.Any sign that occupancy rates were slipping or revenues suffering would do severe damage to a rating that commands a prospective p/e of 16, assuming pounds 14m pre-tax this year, and a yield of only 1 per cent at 237p.Soaring net interest costs on the back of rapid expansion have slowed a 73 per cent rise in operating profits to an underlying pre-tax gain of 17 per cent and a pounds 17m cash outflow is likely to take gearing to 60 per cent by the end of the year.A return to shareholders for new money, after a pounds 60m fund raising in 1991, looks ever more likely by early 1995, which should be borne in mind.Meanwhile, fears that local authorities' budgets will run out of money before Takare does suggest some caution Long term, the shares are good value.. It's a very individualistic solo instrument, of great charm, which is why Schubert, Berlioz in a small way, Boccherini - to name a few - loved the guitar and used it in limited ways. Sylvie Guillem was dubbed 'an empress, Viviana Durante 'exquisitely finished and Darcey Bussell (right) earned a place on People Magazine's 'World's 50 most beautiful people list alongside fellow Brit hit Hugh Grant All three ballerinas are now back in London. We looked at each other for a while, and then the eye contact got to me, and I sidled off home. Here was someone who had on his side novelty, money, personal charm and the media (most of which he owns). But the fact is that (compact discs) is a highly competitive market, with 600 smaller companies competing nose- to-nose and a tremendous range of products at an enormous range of prices.'He also defended the rights of manufacturers of expensive perfumes not to sell their products in cut-price shops.Their profit margins, 38 per cent, were lower than many of the stores that sold the perfumes and they had spent 'tens and tens of millions' of pounds building up a luxury brand image which was dependent on exclusive outlets.

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