BETTER COLLECTIVE
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BETTER COLLECTIVE
A MIXED PICTURE
Assessing trading in the third quarter is necessarily tricky due to the ongoing Covid-19 uncertainties. As can be seen from Chart 1, until the disruptions caused this year by the pandemic, Better Collective’ s best quarter was the first quarter of 2020, when it hit € 20.9m. Subsequently, we saw a drastic drop-off in the second quarter as its largely sports-based business fell off a cliff, before recovering as the quarter progressed and then moved into a more recovery-like third period.
The company noted that from mid-September, it had seen a rebound in activity, including in NDCs, which, it added, had returned to the levels seen in the first quarter. In fact, the company said October – outside of the reporting period – was particularly
Chart 1: Better Collective revenues 3Q18-3Q20(€ m)
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0 Q318 Q418 Q119 Q219 Q319 Q419 Q120 Q220 Q320 Chart 2: Better Collective EBITDA 3Q18-4Q21( e)(€ m)
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Source: Company reports and Redeye forecasts
January 2021