CG4 Stock Overview

A holding company, designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes toys, games, and giftware products in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, the Far East, and internationally. More details

CG4 fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	4/6
Future Growth	0/6
Past Performance	4/6
Financial Health	6/6
Dividends	5/6

Rewards

Trading at 71.1% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings grew by 41.5% over the past year

Risk Analysis

Earnings have declined by 6.1% per year over past 5 years

Does not have a meaningful market cap (€51M)

Unstable dividend track record

My Notes

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Character Group
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	UK£3.20
52 Week High	UK£3.84
52 Week Low	UK£2.98
Beta	0.87
1 Month Change	-1.84%
3 Month Change	0.63%
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	-16.23%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	CG4	DE Leisure	DE Market
7D	-1.2%	-1.5%	1.2%
1Y	n/a	17.9%	10.1%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how CG4 performed against the German Leisure industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how CG4 performed against the German Market.

Price Volatility

Is CG4's price volatile compared to industry and market?
CG4 volatility
CG4 Average Weekly Movement	2.9%
Leisure Industry Average Movement	4.8%
Market Average Movement	4.8%
10% most volatile stocks in DE Market	11.5%
10% least volatile stocks in DE Market	2.4%

Stable Share Price: CG4 has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the German market.

Volatility Over Time: CG4's weekly volatility (3%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1991	212	Kiran Shah	www.thecharacter.com

The Character Group plc, a holding company, designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes toys, games, and giftware products in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, the Far East, and internationally. It also imports and distributes gifts; and invests in properties. It serves pre-school, boys, girls and activity and crafts sectors.

The Character Group plc Fundamentals Summary

How do Character Group's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
CG4 fundamental statistics
Market cap	€60.81m
Earnings (TTM)	€5.92m
Revenue (TTM)	€147.49m

10.3x

P/E Ratio

0.4x

P/S Ratio

Is CG4 overvalued?

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
CG4 income statement (TTM)
Revenue	UK£123.42m
Cost of Revenue	UK£90.67m
Gross Profit	UK£32.75m
Other Expenses	UK£27.80m
Earnings	UK£4.95m

Last Reported Earnings

Aug 31, 2024

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	0.26
Gross Margin	26.54%
Net Profit Margin	4.01%
Debt/Equity Ratio	3.7%

How did CG4 perform over the long term?

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Dividends

7.0%

Current Dividend Yield

73%

Payout Ratio

Does CG4 pay a reliable dividends?

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When do you need to buy CG4 by to receive an upcoming dividend?
Character Group dividend dates
Ex Dividend Date	Jan 16 2025
Dividend Pay Date	Jan 31 2025
Days until Ex dividend	5 days
Days until Dividend pay date	20 days

Does CG4 pay a reliable dividends?

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/01/09 21:24
End of Day Share Price	2025/01/09 00:00
Earnings	2024/08/31
Annual Earnings	2024/08/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Analyst Sources

The Character Group plc is covered by 5 analysts. 2 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Ian Jermin	Allenby Capital Limited
Richard Hickinbotham	Charles Stanley & Co. Ltd.
Richard Hickinbotham	Charles Stanley Securities

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