Moonpig Group PLC (MOON) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

June 25, 2026

LSE GB Consumer Discretionary Specialty Retail earnings 77 min

Earnings Call Speaker Segments

Catherine Faiers

executive
#1

Right. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. This is my first full year results presentation as CEO of Moonpig Group, and we've deliberately chosen to host today's event differently. We wanted to create the opportunity for more direct engagement and conversation with our investors and analysts. Members of my executive leadership team are here today. We operate as one team, and I wanted you to have the opportunity to meet the people responsible for delivering our strategy, serving our customers and building the future of our group. Before we get into the results themselves, I'd like to share some reflections on my first few months in the role, what attracted me to Moonpig Group and where I see the opportunity ahead. Before I talk about the group, I thought it would be helpful to say a few words about my own background and what attracted me to Moonpig Group. I spent most of my career leading consumer-focused digital businesses. Most recently, I spent 8 years at Autotrader, where I served as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, I held senior leadership roles at Trainline and Addison Lee. Across those businesses, I've worked at the intersection of data, technology and operations, helping to build stronger customer relationships and to drive sustainable growth. When I was considering my next role, I was looking for a business with strong foundations and meaningful purpose and significant long-term potential. And I found it at Moonpig Group. Moonpig Group has strong foundations. It combines trusted brands, deep customer relationships and differentiated capabilities with attractive economics and strong cash generation. Moonpig Group has a meaningful purpose. At its heart, this is a business that helps people connect with the people they care about. Every day, millions of customers trust us with some of life's most important moments, from birthdays and anniversaries to celebrations, milestones and moments of support. In a world of artificial intelligence and algorithms, the human connection that we create here feels more important than ever. That emotional connection is powerful. And crucially, Moonpig Group has significant long-term potential. I've spent time across the group meeting over 500 colleagues, many of our customers, partners and shareholders, and my conviction in that potential has only grown. One of the most consistent questions I've been asked since joining is whether people should expect a material change in strategy? The answer is no. This is a business with strong foundations, a disciplined growth framework and a clear financial model. We remain committed to delivering sustainable revenue growth, strong cash generation and attractive returns for shareholders. That said, I do believe to deliver the next phase of growth, we need to sharpen our focus and to think differently about how we create value. It has become increasingly clear to me over the last few months that Moonpig has a unique combination of strengths, trusted brands, deep customer relationships, rich proprietary data and differentiated operational capabilities. These assets provide us with a powerful foundation for future growth. The question is not whether we have the right foundations, we do. The question is whether we are fully realizing the potential of those assets and those capabilities, and my view is that we are not. Over the last few years, the business has invested significantly in technology, data and customer relationships, building capabilities that are difficult to replicate. The opportunity now is not simply to do more of what we have done before. It is to be deliberate about where we focus, how we create sustainable competitive advantage and what will drive the next phase of growth. The 3 priorities I'm about to outline are the areas where I believe we can create the greatest long-term value. Firstly, our differentiated model, which is built on customer relationships and operational excellence. Historically, Moonpig Group has often been described as a technology business. Technology remains fundamental to our success and will continue to play an important role in our future. Much of the discussion around Moonpig has focused specifically on the product features that we have delivered like AI stickers or face swap functionality. Increasingly, I believe these capabilities are the price of entry rather than the source of competitive differentiation. At our core, we help people build and maintain meaningful relationships. We serve deeply human needs, celebrating, supporting, thanking and staying connected with the people who matter the most. Product features enable us to do this through convenience, personalization, and increasingly through AI, where it enhances creativity, relevance and the customer experience. But these features alone are not our only competitive advantage. Our ability to deliver these experiences comes from the combination of trusted customer relationships, proprietary data, operational excellence and the unique capabilities we have built over many years. Together, these assets allow us to understand customers more deeply, personalize experiences more effectively and deliver products both reliably and at scale. As technology becomes increasingly accessible, individual product features will inevitably become easier to replicate. What is much harder to replicate is the integrated model that sits behind them. Our model gives us the agility and economics of a digital business while retaining control of the customer experience and the ability to innovate our tangible products and services in ways that many pure technology businesses cannot. We can fulfill and deliver over 750,000 cards a day of any design and almost 100,000 gifts. Customers can order up until 9:00 the night before for delivery before 1:00 p.m. the next day. Put simply, the moat is not the feature. The moat is our model. And as we look ahead, we believe that model will become an increasingly important source of sustainable competitive advantage and long-term growth. The second focus area is driving frequency and lifetime value through a deeper understanding of our customers and building more personalized customer relationships. The more time I spend with our customers, the more convinced I become that our greatest opportunities start with understanding them in a more human way. Understanding the occasions they celebrate, the people they buy for, the moments that matter most and the barriers that prevent them from engaging with us more often. While we've traditionally focused on customer cohorts and taken a relatively functional approach to customer understanding, I believe we've underinvested in understanding individual customer needs, motivations and behaviors. We've become very good at understanding what customers do. The opportunity now is to better understand why they do it, complementing our cohort-based view with a much richer understanding of individual customers and the relationships that matter most to them. For example, our recent research shows there are customers looking for highly personalized cards to give in-person who we do not serve as well as we could today. Equally, there are customers who prioritize speed and convenience above all else. The better we understand these different needs, the more opportunities we can create to serve them. Over many years, we have built what we believe is the richest customer data set in our category through trusted customer relationships and millions of meaningful interactions. Yet I believe we are still only scratching the surface of what it can enable. Historically, we've used data to optimize channels improve experiences and drive conversion through recommendations based on aggregated customer behavior. Increasingly, the bigger opportunity is to use it to build more personalized and more valuable customer relationships. So the opportunity is not simply to understand customers better. It is to help them celebrate more occasions, strengthen the relationships that matter most to them and make gifting more relevant and meaningful through personalization. Whether through improved reminder journeys, more relevant recommendations and Evolve Plus proposition or the intelligent application of AI, we are still at the beginning of what this opportunity can unlock. The third area of focus is leveraging our group advantage. Our opportunity is not simply to strengthen the assets of the group individually, but to leverage them more effectively across the group. Historically, we have operated as a collection of businesses. Increasingly, I believe the opportunity is to think and operate as one group so that we can move faster share capabilities more effectively and unlock more value from the assets we already have. We can apply insights across markets. We can leverage technology, data and operational capabilities across the group. And we can ensure that the strength that exists in one part of the business create value for all parts of the business. We're already beginning to see this in practice through our experiences business, which we have brought much closer to the group. I also believe there is an opportunity for us to become more externally connected to spend more time with our customers to build deeper relationships with suppliers, creators and strategic partners and to strengthen the ecosystem around our brands. Ultimately, this is about pace, faster learning, faster execution and unlocking more value from the assets we already have. Taken together, these focus areas give me confidence that the group's opportunity remains significant. It is significant because we operate in large and resilient markets. Online penetration remains relatively low compared with many retail categories. Our market shares remain modest relative to the size of the overall opportunity and customer frequency remains below what we believe is achievable. And advances in technology, data and personalization are creating new ways all the time to serve customers and deepen engagement. As a group, we are committed to building a track record of consistent delivery over the longer term. Our objective is to deliver sustainable, high-quality growth supported by strong returns and disciplined capital allocation. We have a consistent financial framework and are targeting mid- to high single-digit annual revenue growth and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 25% to 27%. We aim to deliver double-digit growth in adjusted earnings per share alongside continued returns of excess capital to shareholders. Today's results demonstrate the resilience of the business that this team has built. But what excites me most is the opportunity ahead of us, an opportunity to build on strong foundations, an opportunity to unlock more value from the assets we already have and an opportunity to continue delivering returns for shareholders over the very long term. With that, let us turn to the results for the year. Over to Andy.

Andy MacKinnon

executive
#2

Thanks, Catherine, and good morning, everyone. We delivered another year of strong financial performance with revenue growth, strong margins and excellent cash generation. Revenue increased by 6.5% to GBP 373 million, driven by continued growth at Moonpig and a return to growth at Greetz. Our business model continues to deliver high margins with adjusted EBITDA increasing by 8.1% to GBP 104.6 million and adjusted EBITDA margin remaining strong at 28%. Profit growth, together with the benefit of our share buyback programs, drove adjusted basic EPS up by 19.5% to 18p. We also continued to generate significant cash with free cash flow increasing by 11.2% to GBP 73.5 million. These results demonstrate the strength of our model and provide the foundation for continued investment in growth alongside attractive shareholder returns. Let's look at each in turn, starting with revenue growth. Both of our card first brands delivered revenue growth in FY '26. Revenue at Moonpig increased by 8.6%, building on the strong growth delivered in FY '25. Performance was supported by new customer acquisition, customers trading up to higher priced gifts and larger card formats and increased adoption of tracked next-day delivery. We also delivered revenue growth of 33% across Ireland, Australia and the U.S. Greetz returned to growth, with revenue increasing by 4.5% in sterling and 1.5% in local currency. This reflects the progress in strengthening the local proposition, improving online customer experience and deepening customer engagement through initiatives such as Plus and reminders. We also continue to invest in marketing and commercial partnerships at Greetz driving strong new customer acquisition and contributing to a gradual strengthening in revenue growth through the year. Together, Moonpig and Greetz delivered revenue growth of 7.9% in FY '26. Let's look at the customer and order trends behind that growth. Order growth in FY '26 was driven by new customer acquisition. Orders increased by 2.1% to GBP 36 million, driven by continued growth in active customers. Our active customer base increased by 300,000 to 12.3 million with growth at both Moonpig and Greetz reflecting the strength of our customer acquisition platform. Purchase frequency was broadly stable, reducing from 2.94 to 2.92 orders per active customer. This reduction was specific to Greetz and reflects increased use of commercial partnerships with nationally recognized Dutch consumer brands as a customer acquisition channel. These partnerships are an effective source of new customers, but they temporarily dilute average order frequency while we build engagement with them. Importantly, frequency at Moonpig remained unchanged year-on-year despite significant migration to track next-day delivery at a higher price points. Turning to average order value. Alongside growth in orders, we also delivered strong growth in average order value, which increased by 5.7% to GBP 9.32 per order, excluding VAT. This growth reflects continued improvement in the customer proposition. Customers traded up to higher price gifting products, including categories such as homeware, where we've added trusted brands. We also saw higher uptake of our large and giant greeting card formats. Gift attach rate increased by 0.2 percentage points to 17.9% and supported by the continued development of our gifting proposition and the addition of new trusted brand partners. Average order value also benefited from increased uptake of tracked next-day delivery and the impact of stamp price changes. Importantly, there were no significant changes to card pricing during the year with the U.K. standard card price remaining at GBP 3.99 throughout both FY '25 and FY '26. Looking ahead, we remain confident in the long-term opportunity to increase gift attach rates. We're focused on making gifting more visible throughout the customer journey while moving towards truly personalized gifting recommendations for individual customers. Turning to cards and attach gifting. Moonpig and Greetz both operate a card first strategy with more than 95% of orders, including a card. Card revenue increased by 9.4% during FY '26. Growth was driven by higher order volumes, increased customer uptake of track next-day delivery, stamp price increases and continued success in upselling customers into larger card formats. Attached gifting revenue increased by 6.5%. This was supported by higher card order volumes, a modest increase in gift attach rates and customers trading up to higher price gifting products. We look next to experiences where we strengthened the commercial offering and improved performance. We continued to make progress in strengthening the experiences proposition during FY '26. Revenue decreased by 4.5% for the full year, but within this, trading improved throughout the year with revenue down 8.9% in the first half and down 1.9% in the second half. This improvement reflects the work undertaken to strengthen and broaden the product range. During the year, we expanded our range across key categories, including casual dining, days out, immersive experiences and subscriptions. This all helped to restore growth in gross transaction value. However, the impact on revenue was partially offset by lower average commission rates, reflecting changes in supplier and product mix. Our focus has also broadened beyond the commercial proposition to the recipient experiences. We've made organizational changes to bring the experiences business closer to the rest of Moonpig Group and expect alignment to strengthen over time. With this in mind, we're focused on ensuring that product quality and the recipient journey consistently meet the standards expected across the group. While the progress made during the year is encouraging, further work remains. And as a result, we expect the trading patterns seen in the second half of FY '26 to continue in the near term. Growth in gross transaction value is likely to remain offset by lower average commission rates as we continue to prioritize proposition quality and recipient outcomes. Moving now to gross margin performance across the group. We delivered gross profit growth of 4.5% to GBP 218 million and continue to invest in our delivery proposition. Gross margin at Moonpig decreased by 1.1 percentage points to 55.9%, and that reflects strategic investments to expand delivery choice through tracked and premium options. We also saw a mix impact from revenue growth in new markets where gross margin rates are lower due to outsourced fulfillment. Gross margin increased by 0.6 percentage points, reflecting the transition of Dutch Flowers fulfillment to the group's long-term strategic category partner. Looking ahead to FY '27, we expect gross margin rates to reduce modestly, and this reflects continued investment in strengthening our delivery proposition and expanding customer delivery choice alongside the mix impact of continued growth in new markets. Despite the impact of these investments on gross margin, we increased adjusted EBITDA margin to 28% and delivered adjusted EBITDA growth of 8.1% to GBP 104.6 million. At Moonpig, we maintained a strong adjusted EBITDA margin of 30.5%. The lower gross margin rate was partially offset by positive operating leverage and a lower level of share-based payment expense. At Greetz, the organizational restructuring, which we completed in late FY '25, reduced the indirect cost base and helped drive a 4.4 percentage point increase in adjusted EBITDA margin. The restructuring also allowed us to strengthen and refresh the team supporting the return to revenue growth in FY '26. At Experiences, continued cost efficiency initiatives drove a 2.3 percentage point improvement in adjusted EBITDA margin. Looking ahead to FY '27, we expect adjusted EBITDA margin to ease towards the top of our target range of 25% to 27%, reflecting continued investment in our delivery proposition and a higher rate of share-based payment expense. Strong growth in adjusted EBITDA translated into even stronger growth further down the P&L with adjusted PBT increasing by 13.4% to GBP 76.5 million. Depreciation and amortization reduced slightly to GBP 17.4 million, reflecting the relatively low level of capital expenditure over the last 3 years. Net finance costs increased by GBP 0.3 million year-on-year with the benefit of lower interest rates more than offset by higher average borrowings. Adjusted basic EPS increased by 19.5% to 18p, which reflects both the growth in profit and the positive impact of our share buyback programs. Over the last 12 months, we repurchased and canceled approximately 28 million shares, reducing issued share capital by over 8%. Now let's look at how those profits have translated into cash. We consistently generate strong free cash flow. This reflects our high-margin business model, disciplined capital expenditure and the benefits of negative working capital. Free cash flow increased by 11.2% to GBP 73.5 million in FY '26, representing 70% conversion of adjusted EBITDA. Capital expenditure increased by GBP 2.6 million to GBP 15.9 million, around GBP 0.8 million of this increase related to software development with the balance reflecting planned investment in automation and insourcing at our Tamworth fulfillment center. Working capital was a modest outflow of GBP 0.5 million whilst taxation increased by GBP 2.2 million, reflecting higher profitability. The group's strong and consistent cash generation supports continued investment in technology, in customer acquisition and in operational automation while also providing substantial capacity for shareholder returns. FY '26 highlights how we have deployed that capacity to return capital to shareholders. Our approach to capital allocation remains unchanged. With our organic growth priorities fully funded and significant M&A not currently part of our strategy, our focus remains on returning excess capital to shareholders. Importantly, we've delivered these returns while maintaining balance sheet discipline. Net debt to adjusted EBITDA was 1.03x at year-end, in line with our target leverage of around 1x on an IFRS 16 basis. Turning to dividends. We operate a progressive dividend policy targeting dividend cover of 3x to 4x over the medium term. The Board has proposed a total dividend of 3.75p per share, which is up 25% year-on-year. Alongside dividends, we're returning significant capital through share buybacks. We repurchased 60 million shares in FY '26, equivalent to over 8% of opening share capital. And looking forward, we intend to repurchase up to 65 million in FY '27. As always, we approach buybacks with discipline. We undertake them only where they are EPS accretive, funded from excess capital and offer an attractive rate of return. Now finally, let me update you on current trading and the group's outlook for FY '27. As highlighted in this morning's results announcement, trading across the group since the start of the year has been in line with expectations, and our outlook for FY '27 remains unchanged. We continue to operate with a consistent financial framework, and our goal is to deliver sustainable, high-quality growth supported by strong returns and consistent capital allocation. We are targeting mid- to high single-digit percentage annual revenue growth and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 25% to 27%. We enter delivered double-digit percentage growth in adjusted earnings per share alongside continued returns of excess capital to shareholders. And with that, I'll hand over to Catherine to cover the strategic progress we've made during the year.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#3

Thanks, Andy. At the heart of Moonpig Group is a simple but powerful idea. We use data and technology to turn transactions into long-term customer relationships. Most retailers start each year having to reacquire a large proportion of their customer base. Our model is fundamentally different. Through our capabilities, including over 100 million occasion reminders and over 1 million plus subscription members, we help customers remember celebrate and connect through the moments that matter the most. The result is a business where around 90% of our revenue comes from existing customers. That level of loyalty is unusual. It is one of our greatest competitive advantages and the foundation on which we continue to build. It means we can acquire customers profitably, deepen our relationships over time and create highly relevant opportunities to grow gifting alongside cards. It gives us a more efficient growth model, stronger economics and a richer understanding of the relationships, occasions and motivations that matter to our customers. As we look ahead, our opportunity is not simply to acquire more customers. It is to strengthen the relationships we already have, to increase frequency, improve relevance and play a bigger role in helping customers celebrate, connect and show their care. Our business is built on transactions, but more importantly, it is built on relationships. And the stronger those relationships become the stronger Moonpig becomes. These are the fundamental drivers of our business, and they will remain our focus for years to come, growing our customer base, deepening engagement, increasing frequency and strengthening the loyalty that underpins our long-term growth. We see a significant runway for growth ahead and that opportunity is reflected in the 3 compounding levers that underpin our business model. The first is customer growth. Across our core U.K. and Dutch markets, there are around 51 million card buyers. And today, we serve 12.3 million active customers, having added 300,000 new customers in 2026. That gives us a substantial opportunity to continue to grow our customer base over time. The second is frequency. Customers in our markets purchased on average around 19 cards a year. Today, our active customers send an average of 3.5 cards annually through Moonpig and Greetz. Whilst we already benefit from high levels of loyalty, there remains a significant opportunity to help customers celebrate more of the occasions that matter. And the third is average order value. More than 60% of occasions involve both a card and a gift. Yet today, our gift attach rate is 17.9%. As we continue to improve our gifting proposition, increase relevance and strengthen the customer experience, there is significant headroom to grow our share of those occasions. What makes our model particularly powerful is that these levers reinforce one another. As we acquire more customers, deepen engagement and increase frequency, we create more opportunities to grow gifting and increase value per order. Together, these 3 levers create a powerful compounding effect that drives sustainable growth over time. These will remain our most important growth metrics, but our approach to driving them is changing. Historically, much of our focus has been on product features like handwriting and customer-facing innovation like AI stickers. Those things remain important. But increasingly, we believe the biggest opportunities lie in understanding our customers in a more human way, understanding not just what they do but why they do it and using the unique data, operational capabilities and customer relationships we have built over many years to serve them better. The metrics themselves do not change. What is changing is our focus on the underlying drivers of those metrics and our belief that there remains a significant opportunity to unlock more value from the foundations that we have already built. The opportunity to grow frequency starts with helping customers remember and celebrate more occasions. One of the things that makes Moonpig unique is that we're not simply present at the point of purchase. We have the opportunity to support customers throughout the entire relationship life cycle. Over the years, we have built a significant set of customer engagement assets, including more than 100 million stored occasions and a growing subscription base of over 1 million-plus members. These assets are valuable because they help us stay connected to customers in between transactions. They allow us to engage customers in relevant and helpful ways rather than simply marketing to them when we want them to buy something. Our reminder service is a great example of this. Today, around 40% of orders are placed within 7 days of an occasion reminder. That demonstrates the important role we can play in helping customers manage important moments in their lives. Looking ahead, we believe there is significant opportunity to make these engagement tools even more valuable. We want to create a more personalized, intelligent and helpful experience that understands customers, their relationships and the occasions that matter the most to them. Similarly, we continue to see momentum in Plus. Our subscription base has grown by almost 30% year-on-year and now represents around 1/4 of Moonpig orders. Beyond the commercial benefits, Plus strengthens customer loyalty, increases engagement and creates a deeper relationship with our most valuable customers. Taken together, these capabilities are not just marketing tools, they are relationship building tools. They help customers celebrate more occasions, increase engagement over time and ultimately drive greater frequency and lifetime value. Having discussed how we build and maintain customer relationships, the next question is how we continue to improve the customer experience itself. Every customer journey starts with finding the right card. With more than 40,000 card designs across Moonpig and Greetz, helping customers discover the most relevant product quickly and easily is becoming increasingly important. This is where personalization can play a critical role. We can use data and technology to make the discovery experience more relevant over time, helping customers find the right card for the right person and the right occasion with less effort. At the same time, we continue to invest in creativity and personalization. Features such as Facebook give customers more ways to create something unique, while improvements to our local proposition at Greetz, ensure we remain relevant to customers in each market. While these innovations may appear small individually, together, they help to create a better customer experience, improve conversion and to strengthen engagement. Ultimately, our objective is simple, to make it easier for customers to create thoughtful, meaningful products to help them celebrate and connect with the people who matter the most. Once the customer has found the right card, the next opportunity is helping them create an even more meaningful experience through gifting. This is an attractive growth opportunity within our model, and our approach is not simply to offer more products. Instead, our focus is on building a more relevant, curated and trusted gifting proposition that complements the card journey and helps customers find the right gift for the right recipient. Importantly, we're already seeing evidence that customers are responding positively to a stronger gifting proposition. Attached gifting revenue grew by 6.5% during the year, driven not only by higher order volumes, but also by customers increasingly choosing higher-value gifts. This reinforces our belief that the opportunity in gifting is not only about increasing attachment rates. It is also about helping customers find more meaningful gifts and creating greater value from each occasion. When we improve relevance and recipient outcomes, customers are willing to spend more with us. Over time, we believe gifting will be an important contributor to growth, allowing us to deepen customer relationships while increasing the value we create from each interaction. Once the customer has selected the right card or gift, the experience moves into an area of the business that we believe is an increasingly important source of both customer value and competitive advantage. Over many years, we've built highly specialized fulfillment and operational capabilities that enable us to manufacture personalize and deliver hundreds of thousands of unique products every day with high levels of quality, speed and reliability. These capabilities are fundamental to the customer experience. Customers trust us not only because we help them choose the right product, but because they trust us to deliver it accurately, reliability and on time for some of life's most important moments. While individual features can often be replicated, building an operational platform capable of delivering highly personalized products at scale requires years of investment, expertise and continuous improvement. Importantly, these capabilities do not just improve customer outcomes, they also create meaningful economic advantages. They enable us to improve efficiency, support attractive unit economics, scale profitably as the business grows and continue investing in the customer proposition. As we look ahead, we see opportunities to continue strengthening these capabilities through automation, fulfillment innovation and operational improvements. Our fulfillment operation is not simply an operational capability, it is an important part of our competitive advantage. Our fulfillment capabilities do more than enable efficient operations. They allow us to continually improve the customer proposition and better support the occasions that matter most. One of the clearest examples of this is the evolution of our delivery offering. Increasingly, customers want greater flexibility, more certainty and more control over how and when their products arrive. This is particularly important in a category where purchases are often linked to specific dates and meaningful occasions. Over the last few years, we have expanded the range of delivery options available to customers, including faster delivery services and track delivery propositions. The response from customers has been encouraging. Where faster and higher value delivery options are available, customers consistently choose them. This reflects the nature of the occasions we serve and the importance customers place on ensuring cards and gifts arrive on time. Importantly, track delivery does more than create a better customer experience. It provides greater visibility throughout the delivery journey and has contributed to a reduction in customer service contacts relating to delivery issues. Our goal here is to remove friction, provide customers with more choice and increased confidence that they will successfully mark the moments that matter. Looking ahead, we see further opportunities to strengthen our proposition through additional delivery innovation, greater flexibility and a better recipient experience. Because ultimately, the value we create is not when a customer places an order, it is when a card or gift arrives at exactly the right moment. Before I close, I want to acknowledge the progress the team delivered during FY '26. The performance we are reporting today reflects the hard work and commitment of our people and the strength of the business that has been built over many years. As I've settled into the role, what has become clear to me is both the scale of the opportunity ahead and how much potential remains to be unlocked. The foundations are strong, the strategy remains clear, but I believe the next phase of growth will come from sharpening our focus, a deeper understanding of our customers, stronger relationships, better recipient outcomes and greater leverage of the scale capabilities and assets we have across the group. Our priority remains sustainable high-quality growth, supported by strong customer outcomes, disciplined execution and long-term value creation. That is why I am excited about the future of Moonpig Group. We're building from a position of strength with strong foundations, clear areas of focus and a significant opportunity ahead of us. Thank you. We'll now move to questions.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#4

[Operator Instructions].

Ross Broadfoot

analyst
#5

Let me go back a bit. Ross Broadfoot from RBC. I've got a few questions disguised as three. Could you give me some color on how you expect those 3 revenue KPIs to play out into the midterm? And if all goes to plan, releveraging the why, when do you think we can expect to see a bit of a pickup in frequency?

Catherine Faiers

executive
#6

Sorry, the 3 revenue KPIs. You mean the 3, the customer -- new customer numbers, frequency and then [indiscernible].

Ross Broadfoot

analyst
#7

Yes. And then number two, could you give any detail on how much of the AOV growth of the 5.7% was driven by stamp price increase and track delivery? And then sort of part 2 of that just on those nonpeak delivery options, where do you see that tracked order percentage now at 44% maturing, just thinking about that in the context of it as an organic growth driver. And then finally, you mentioned in the statement, Australia, the focal international region. Will we see much of a step-up in marketing there? And if not, what's holding you back?

Catherine Faiers

executive
#8

I don't know how many questions that were there...

Ross Broadfoot

analyst
#9

Probably five.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#10

Yes. Let's go, 5. And we will take each one in turn and jump or come back to us at the end if we haven't captured them all. slightly the first one, and then I'll hand over to you for a second. In terms of the 3 revenue growth levers, I think we've said pretty consistently that we are -- our strategy is clearly to grow all 3. In any half or year period, you should expect us to be growing at least 1 or 2 of them and that you shouldn't expect to see consistent stable growth in all 3 compounding every half year and every year. I think we've seen good momentum in new customer numbers over the last year or so, in particular, continuing an incredible track record that the business has a very consistently driving new customers into the group. I hope very much that will continue and certainly will remain a very important focus for us. In terms of AOV, AOB has been one of the biggest stories of this last year or say we have seen despite some wider concerns about U.K. consumer, we've seen through the occasions and the moment that people are selecting mean before, we've seen really strong and consistent growth there. And we don't see any signs at the moment that, that growth is slowing dramatically. Clearly, we have a job to do to keep making sure the delivery proposition is right, the gifting proposition is right to keep driving that, but it's certainly been one of our more positive levers and will continue to be a positive lever in the future. Frequency, I think, has forever been the big opportunity for the group and remains the big opportunity for the group. I think we will be trying some different levers and some different ways of thinking about and addressing frequency, as we talked about in the presentation, and we're hopeful that by segmenting and thinking about our customers differently and the missions that they're on, that we will find ways to unlock different segments of the market that historically haven't even had us top of mind or haven't thought about us for particular missions that they're on.

Andy MacKinnon

executive
#11

And then the question around AOV. Obviously, it was a strong period for AOV growth, up 5.7%. Within that, broadly half of the increase was down to changes in the postal proposition, probably about 1 percentage point coming from stamp price increases and very roughly sort of 2 percentage points coming through from the increase in track delivery. I mean standing back, we're on a journey from a world several years ago where we had a relatively straightforward delivery and proposition, which served all customers equally well with a single proposition for gifts and a single first-class stamp price for cards. And we're on a journey towards a world where there's a much broader range of delivery options available to our customers, and we build our delivery capabilities, a strategic asset and for the business. in the last year, the growth in track delivery has been an important part of that. And we actually expect that to continue in the year ahead. And we will see -- I expect more than half of our of our card-only orders going through track delivery, including some of the increase in the proportion of large card dispatches that we've seen in recent months go through track delivery. But there will be further innovation, which will sort of build on top of that. And I think one of the things that we referenced in the presentation was the launch of our next day premium by 1:00 delivery, which is seeing good uptake. And that will be a driver of AOV growth as well. So again, I'd encourage you not to think about sort of the growth at tractors being a sort of a one-and-done lever, which then means that we're sort of out of runway. It's a process of evolution with lots of opportunities to drive basket size. And I think across the board, what we're seeing strong customer propensity in lots of different areas, card size format and track delivery and gifting price points for upsell.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#12

On international, I think the overall approach to international, taking a very disciplined approach to organic growth in those markets is still very much the headline. I think Australia and the reference to Australia in the RNS was -- we have decided to invest a little bit more in marketing in that market. But I would see it as a continuation and a further incremental step up with still very much the focus being how do we find the right formula to drive profitable growth that will contribute a gross margin level to the overall group? Through the work we have been doing in recent months on Greetz, which I guess is our first international market. I think we are getting clearer understanding of the target -- the right target operating model for our international businesses. Where should we be building group centers of excellence? Where should we be localizing, customizing whether it's the proposition or the team or the capabilities that we have. And I think some of the learnings there will very much be looking to take and then apply to Ireland, Australia and some of those markets. Should we work our way back, if that's okay? Okay, [indiscernible].

John Stevenson

analyst
#13

John Stevenson at Peel Hunt. Just a couple of questions. First up, the sort of leveraging group advantage. I think you sort of mentioned there's an element of cost, I guess, an element of revenue from that how much more cost is the potential to come out from that? And then secondly, I guess, on the revenue side, what is it that you think you're going to get by kind of centralizing maybe some of the sort of proposition? Is it more about sort of centralized control in terms of how you think about the data and the opportunity? And then second question is on the Plus membership. I guess historically, this has always been the best performing customers. Are you now getting to the stage where you're getting new cohorts that you're able to sort of bring and drive sort of frequency and performance? Or is it still basically your top tier?

Catherine Faiers

executive
#14

Sure. On Group Advantage, you are right. Some of the process of moving from businesses being run more separately in the group, so more centralization has been through building centers of excellence, whether that's in finance or in our products and technology team, there has been some cost benefit to that journey. I think most of that in terms of people costs, certainly, I think we're now predominantly through. There are still some cost savings coming through in whether it's consolidating CRM platforms or sharing, tooling and systems. But I'd say they're not material in the context of the overall group and nice to have rather than big levers for future improvement. On the direct revenue output, I think most of what we're most of the learnings and most of the capabilities that we're sharing across the group should be levers that help us drive speed and execute faster. So whether it's a marketing agency we're working with in one part of the group, having some great learnings around demand-based bidding or whether it's social work with influences we've been doing in one market that we can bring and transport over into the U.K. or in a different market. I think it is about we are getting a common central shared sense of purpose for the group and getting that right mix of doubling down on group sensitive excellence and capabilities, but then where a division has a particularly strong capability in a field or in a discipline, making sure that we're absolutely getting the best value for that within other parts of the group as well. So I hope it will drive speed, pace and alignment that will, over time, drive performance and better revenue in the business units.

John Stevenson

analyst
#15

Sorry, just on the -- sorry, the second question was on Plus, yes.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#16

Plus and membership, sorry. We've added, I think, the cohort performance on Plus continues to be strong. If we take a baseline of people that are not on plus and then look at plus members, we're continuing to see strong signs of loyalty to plus cohorts. I don't think we're seeing anything hugely different in more recent cohorts from the early cohorts, but we're clearly continuing to be able to drive the habit and drive performance of people migrating through to us through the growth that we've delivered in the last 12 months. It's definitely an area where as we think about understanding some of the barriers to people using us and where there might be opportunities. Plus is an obvious area where in the future, we might think about evolving the proposition of their other tiers or are there different components that should be built into Plus to really try and drive loyalty, but we're right at the early stages of all of that thinking.

Hai Huynh

analyst
#17

It's Hai from UBS. I have three questions, if you don't mind. The first one is just to understand the financial framework on the top line a little bit. So you say mid- to high single-digit growth. In April, stamp increase was around 5% to 6%, I believe, this year. So am I correct in thinking that within that range, you have a set of expectations of how much you can drive on your own. And then the range varies from stamp increase also whether it's helpful for you or not, right? So that we know where you could land depending on stamp increases. So that's the first question. The second one is on frequency. So frequency was down a little bit, and you said that still creates partnerships building, and you say that's temporary reduction. When you say temporary, do you expect that to continue for FY '27 or just the first half of '27. And then finally, on experiences. When you say second half of 26 trading patterns will continue in the near term. Again, I'm trying to get what near term means. Is this throughout FY '27 as well? Or do you expect it to become kind of flat growth for the year?

Catherine Faiers

executive
#18

Do you want to take the first one?

Andy MacKinnon

executive
#19

Yes, absolutely. I'll take the first one. So you're right, our financial framework specifies revenue growth of mid- to mid- to high single digits. And I think the question was around whether or not we should expect that to flex based on stamp price changes. I think that the price for stamp is just one of the inputs into revenue growth in a given period. And hopefully by now, we've got a very strong track record of showing that in different periods, we're able to drive revenue growth through pulling on different levers, depending upon what we think is most appropriate in the external environment in the year that we operate. And the way that we think about it internally is that to the extent that there is an increase in the price of stamp, that's a contribution to the overall basket size which means that perhaps we were moving a little bit less in terms of other parts of the overall proposition where we're moving the price. So as an example, in the context of 2 periods where we've been very focused on driving penetration of track delivery because that's the right thing strategically to move away from first class into a different proposition, we haven't increased the price of a stamp during that period on our standard card size despite the fact that actually would be more accretive to margin because it's a higher-margin element of the overall basket. So in periods where stamp prices do rise, there will be a contribution to the overall growth in revenue. But if there is a slowing in the rate of on price increases, that's not a limiter on our ability to deliver against the medium-term framework.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#20

On frequency, you asked about Greetz and whether the frequency movement was temporary. The explanation for the Greetz shift in frequency is driven by some partnership activity that we ran during the year. When we run partners with big local brands in the Netherlands, we typically see some of those consumers will come through and will be there for the promotion. And so we don't always get the same lifetime value from those customers as we would get if we acquired them through direct brand traffic or through our other marketing channels. I think our goal clearly within Greetz and our mission is absolutely to keep driving frequency and to get frequency trending more positively. I don't think -- it's not temporary in the sense that I don't think we're ever going to do partnerships again. I think we just need to find the right balance and mix between running partnerships that we know pay back and deliver customer growth in the right way, but also driving underlying customer frequency at the same time.

Andy MacKinnon

executive
#21

Yes. And I think the third question was around Experiences. I mean the first thing is we're very pleased with the trajectory of that business and the fact that it's moved much closer to being flat year-on-year in the second half of the year. Within that, as we called out in the presentation, the actual amount that customers are spending on the buying of the website, the gross transaction value is in growth. And from my perspective, is the lead indicator of the health of the business. The customers of that brand are willing to spend more on the website when they come to shop with us. We are looking to bring Experiences much closer to the rest of the organization. And that's both in terms of organization design and ways of working, but also increasingly bringing it within the overall Moonpig brand architecture. If you're doing that, what you want to do is make sure that every buy gift customer recipient has a fantastic experience because it's obviously much more adjacent to the core Moonpig brand. so we are choosing to invest to make sure that we've got a stronger range of partners, a broader range of brand names within the portfolio, where perhaps actually, there is a little bit of margin difference versus the average. Where there are experiences where it's high margin, but we don't think that the proposition is universally outstanding for the recipient, we'll sort of phase that out or change the proposition. And that's something that we expect to continue throughout FY '27. So I think we've been clear with people that whilst we've seen a strong trajectory and experiences, there will be a slightly different focus, it will be revenue growth rather than revenue quality throughout the new financial year.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#22

Let's keep going on the...

Caroline Gulliver

analyst
#23

Caroline Gulliver from Equity Development. I think you mentioned in the presentation that one area of growth is delivering personalized cards that people wanted to hand deliver themselves, which I believe you can already do because you can obviously just have it delivered to yourself and then as liver. So my question is, is this just an increase in marketing? Is this just increase in awareness among existing customers or new customers?

Catherine Faiers

executive
#24

So I think we're right at the beginning of doing the work and spending time with customers and really understanding the missions of that really play to our strengths and the missions that perhaps customers were choosing to go somewhere else before. There are definitely pockets of customers where we have product proposition. We have a service that should work really well from them. But yes, we're not -- top of mind, we're not the first place they're going to fulfill or to secure that card or gift for them. So we're right in the middle of understanding what would it take? What are the barriers to that customer for filling that job with us and what would they need to believe about our brand or our service or proposition for that to become for that to become compelling for them. We do today that about 40% of our customers get the card sent back to them. And that is a really big signal of actually the personal element, one of the biggest bits of feedback I've heard from customers when I've been sitting down with them is a lot of people just really love writing still in the card and feel like that is a very personal element of the gesture experience that they want to do themselves. And when you dig into those in-person -- people that are more likely to give in person often it's because they want to do their own personalization as well as relying on the digital tools that we have available. So whether it's the delivery proposition that needs to evolve, whether it's how we show up in our range and how the products are created or whether it's just understanding that mission in more detail to make sure that we're really talking to them in that moment. We're just at the beginning of understanding all of those things. But the reassuring thing is from both early research and from the time we're spending with customers, there are opportunities with the range and the products that we already have. There are elements where, yes, we will need to change some things. But there's still a big core opportunity for us to run out with broadly the proposition that we've got today.

Georgina Johanan

analyst
#25

It's Georgina Johanan from JPMorgan. Just two quick questions, please. The first one, you've talked about understanding sort of why customers do things rather than how. And I guess just if you could provide some sort of tangible examples of actually how you'll go about that, particularly on like a consistent and ongoing basis rather than just sort of maybe sitting down sort of initially. And then my second question was just on marketing strategy and whether you think that the strategy and the spend is in the right place and at the right levels at the moment or if you have plans to kind of evolve that further?

Catherine Faiers

executive
#26

Sure. So the why for me. So one of the conversations, I think we talked about in the presentation a bit. A lot of our -- if you start with personalization, what we do today on site and then how the product might evolve. Today, a lot of our recommendations and a lot of what we're servicing people through the journey are just that their recommendations based on you picked a card, you personalize that card. And then we're serving you other cards or other gifts based on what other people looking at that card have done. So it's very logical. It's based on big data and technology. But ultimately, what everyone else has done, like we're recommending based on what everyone has done, but arguably, that's recommending for everyone but not actually personalized for anyone because it is just a representation of what the whole of Moonpig has done. Increasingly, with the first-party customer data that we know and with what we will know about what else you might have done on our platform or experience or other orders you might have placed, part of the journey that we want to go on is moving beyond recommendations towards more personalization, personalized to you, not just personalized to everyone that we've seen on Moonpig. So we think there's definitely an avenue there that we want to explore, and we want to keep developing and evolving. In terms of the why as well, some of it comes back to the last question. In that, we are to really understand the barriers to frequency. We really need to understand like why people are not using us. And why in those moments, they're not choosing Moonpig or why they're taking some other actions. And steps and the data that we have on our side about conversion rates or about cohort performance, just doesn't give the answer to those questions. We've got great understanding of what people have done on our site of what they're boarded, of what journeys they've been on. But a lot of this learning is about taking it off Moonpig, off-platform and understanding we're right actually out in the wheel world. What are all the other choices that people are making and how might we tap into them a bit more powerfully, which won't just come down to that our card range and product features on site, it will come down to the delivery proposition and how fulfillment works. It will come down to the full end-to-end customer experience and rethinking some of how that works.

Georgina Johanan

analyst
#27

And then just on marketing strategy...

Catherine Faiers

executive
#28

Marketing, our CMO, Christophe, you can ask him afterwards as well and see if he says the same thing. But we I think we are -- we have incredible awareness as a brand. It is one of the absolute foundational strengths of the business. And that awareness gives us all sorts of advantages. We've also got a brilliant app with very high download levels and with brilliant performance and conversion through the journey. So we have brand assets as a result of our history and our heritage, that means that we are in a very strong organic position when it comes to how and where we show up for consumers. I think rightly, we prioritized our marketing spend and have done historically very rationally around new customer acquisition. I don't think we want to lose that focus because it is a core part of our economic engine and how the business model works. But there are definitely opportunities to think more broadly about the brand and some of the more human aspects of the brands and the moment that people are using us for that I don't think we've really lent into as much as we could in the past. We are a very functional or have been a very functional business operating in a very emotional category. And I think there's opportunities to rethink some of that. That means we show up increasingly a bit differently for consumers. I don't think that's as much around marketing spend levels, just as much about how and where we choose to deploy some of that budget.

Andrew Wade

analyst
#29

Andy Wade from Jefferies. Two quick ones, then a slightly potentially waffly one from me. The first one on -- obviously, you're doing a few partnerships on the gifting side of things. Would that have had any impact on the revenue numbers. So might GMV have been a bit growth have been a bit higher than revenue growth. Just interested on that one. Second one on gift attach, obviously, a bit slower in the second half. You've done a lot on the gifting proposition on the range. You had a lot of new names, some really good work has been done there. And yet it's sort of backwards a bit. I don't know -- it doesn't seem to make sense to me. I'm sorry, I'm interested as to why you think that's going backwards or went backwards in the second half, only marginally, but still it's not moving forward. So a bit of color on that one would be really helpful. And then the third one. So some really interesting diagnosis of the business and thoughts on where Moonpig is, Catherine. But then on the strategic side, there's a lot of very familiar things in there, Moonpig reminders, gifting range, delivery, so on and so on. I guess I'm trying to think in concrete terms about how we should be thinking about things that are going to change. And the things I noted down here, personalization clearly seems like a key area, expanding that delivery proposition seems like a key area and making things easier to shop for the customer seems like a key area. But have I hit the right ones there? And if that's not it, -- are there -- is there more stuff there? So just sort of concrete, what's going to be different, I guess, that would be the third question.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#30

Sure. Do you want to take the GMV versus revenue on?

Andy MacKinnon

executive
#31

Yes, sure. I mean that's fairly straightforward. The partnerships that we've launched during the financial year just gone have all been on a sort of buying as principal. So we've been purchasing stock and reselling. So no, there isn't a difference between GMV and reported revenue.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#32

On gift attach. You're right, gift attach in the second half, in particular, has been stubbornly at about the same level despite the work the team have done on range and despite the good growth that we've delivered in the value of the gifts that customers have bought. I think we're in the middle, and I'm still in the middle of 3 months in of diagnosing why and how. We should think about that and what some of the answers to driving gift attach might be. I think a bit like the different revenue levers that we've got with gifting. It's probably a bit of a similar story. Yes, of course, we want to drive attach. But equally, there's revenue growth that we can keep driving through gifting and also gifts per order. And we've made some encouraging changes in the last few months around how we treat multi-gifting proposition to get the delivery proposition right for consumers, then that will be an opportunity for us as well. Gift attach absolutely has to stay as a priority. I think one of the challenges with gift attach is we're a card-first and card-led proposition, and awareness of our card range is phenomenal, awareness of our gifting range is okay. It's clearly not as strong as cards, what we're famous for. We are trying to drive gifting through the cross-sell, and we need to get better at improving the curation of the range, the personalization of that range so that we are really hitting the right notes with the gifts that we surface for customers in that moment. It's probably more work we need to do given that, that cross-sell range is always going to be in a moment in a journey on mine. There probably is more work we need to do as well to make gifting more broadly, more associated with the brand more visible in our parts of the consumer experience and journey as well.

Andrew Wade

analyst
#33

Could I just check on the earlier part of the answer. You were saying that multigift so that would potentially not move the gift attach rate, but would benefit the AOV because obviously they're adding to have a layer on.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#34

We've seen some of that in 6.5-odd-percent gifting revenue growth that we've seen this year. Some of that is driven by more people adding 2 guests rather than one. So there when we talk about gifting internally and when I've been spending time with our team, is those 3 things that we're talking about that all contribute to gifting in a different way. But yes, absolutely still work to do on attach and figuring out the formula that we now need to land to take attach that has been stubbornly around that 17%, 18% mark for quite a while now. We need to think about what are some of the bigger levers that we can do to address that.

Andrew Wade

analyst
#35

Yes. And just going in a little bit more on that. I guess the thought had always been that it was because the range wasn't big enough or broad enough, but it sounds like that wasn't the whole answer, right? Yes. It's a bit more complex than that.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#36

But I think the interesting thing is we put in the range there. The encouraging thing is that people will trade up. And we've encouraged people to buy things from Moonpig. But I think a few years ago, maybe people would have associated with us as a brand. So we've proven that by growing range, we can drive value of gifting. We now need to figure out what are the moments, what are the occasions? What are the mindsets of those other customers that either have never attached to attached bonds, but haven't come back. But what do we need to do to unlock that opportunity. And some of it might be more gifting value. Some of it might be more than 1 guess, but ultimately, we need to keep focusing on a touch as well.

Andrew Wade

analyst
#37

And some of it might be intractable in the sense that for some people getting and putting the effort into a Moonpig is partly the gift in itself, right? I mean...

Catherine Faiers

executive
#38

Yes. And I'd say it's interesting. We would basically -- a lot of people have upgraded A lot of people have upgraded to large and giant cards. And in some of those moments like some of the giant cards, if you spend time in times are incredible, like the effort and the thought that people put into them. If you're spending more on the cards and then make -- I don't know, are people trading off. I'm not -- I don't think we understand that well enough. But definitely, we've seen people trading up, whether it's car size or gift type has been a theme over the last few months. Your last question was how much is going to be different versus how much it's going to be the same and we...

Andrew Wade

analyst
#39

Well, more specifically, what other things rather than how much, yes.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#40

So I think I would caveat it always. And the reason I deliberately talked about areas of focus themes is because I'm still in month 4. And so the exact -- it's like -- what are we going to go and do? What product should you expect to see in a month or in a couple of months' time. And we are absolutely on all of those things, but I don't want to commit to things now we might end up changing in the coming weeks. But your direction of thinking about delivery and fulfillment more as how do we increase, improve the choice that we're offering to consumers to make that. I mean, it's a huge part of our service proposition, right? The thing arriving on time as I see in the customer complaints, but I get is as important as the thing, right? If not more important in many ways. So thinking about delivery as a core part of our service proposition and a core part of the of the product that we deliver to customers is definitely a theme. And personalization, yes, it's about our data asset and leveraging that differently. It's also about that customer understanding piece, which I think will mean that we evolve the proposition in different ways because we believe to unlock some of those missions or some of the frequency we're not seeing today, we will need to evolve. But that might come through product features, it might come through range expansion, not range as in digital range, but it might come through with some other physical aspects of the proposition that we think about that we want to think about changing as well. And then, yes, your third theme of customer journeys and UX, how we think about how we make the job of creating a card, booking a card, checking out, getting to how do we make all of that easier. We do see for some customers, they're very much there on an efficiency mission. They're buying a birthday card for their needs and they need it tomorrow and they need it in under a minute and they want the job done. And we need -- our journey is amazing if you want to add a load of stickers, add a load of photos spend time creating a beautiful product. We need it also to be excellent if you've got a minute or 2 and you just -- you need to get the job done. And so all of those things are very much part of the work that we're doing and thinking about at the moment.

Andrew Wade

analyst
#41

And no other specific ones that you call out. Those 3 are broadly on the money.

Catherine Faiers

executive
#42

Good themes.

Matthew McEachran

analyst
#43

Matthew McEachran from Singer Capital Markets. A couple of questions and one sort of tied in to what Andy was asking about. I mean the markets obviously had a bit of a hunger for the pace of growth, not just the sustainability of growth. You've laid out some initiatives here, which probably give you quite a nice road map in terms of broadening out and sustaining growth. But I'm assuming that some of the initiatives don't necessarily result in a uniform uplift or, if you like, enhancement to the growth rates across the group. I was wondering if you could maybe give us a flavor as to where you feel the benefits land most effectively initially, i.e., this year into early next year? Is it Greetz? Or is it international? And I think really aligned to that is again, tied into Andy, do you think Moonpig's growth rate is a little bit resistant to some of these initiatives just initially if the attach rate doesn't move?

Catherine Faiers

executive
#44

I think we're -- the reason, if I take it back a level, the reason for being really clear on the financial framework and financial model. Is this is to give clarity with the change of CEO that actually back to Andy's question on what's going to change, what's going to stay the same. I think the financial framework for this business is one of its core strengths, right? The fact that we can -- we've got different business units in the group, they deliver different performance in different periods, but we are figuring out a formula for each of them that means that, hopefully, we can get them all to a point where they're delivering sustainable, consistent good quality revenue streams over time. And we are comfortable that within that portfolio of business units and within the capabilities we have in the group, we're comfortable that, that financial framework is the right one and is one that as a team, we are all 100% behind and committed to. I think there will be a case of growth trade-offs within the different divisions. I think when I think about some of the themes of what's going to feel different. I hope they will let they clearly play in different segments, but there will be benefits for all of the group with the experiences leveraging the group capabilities and advantage. I think we're already seeing benefits in customer service and customer experience from the group leaning in to that business for Greetz the work we're doing on the target operating model and how should we really think about what needs to be customized or versus what needs to be in a center of excellence within the group. I think all of that thinking will lay the foundations and the platforms that we need to keep growing the group. But I'm very comfortable with the trade-off between delivering sustainable, consistent revenue growth and returning very strong margins, good cash generation and returning surplus cash to shareholders. I think that's the right model for this group.

Matthew McEachran

analyst
#45

Great. One for Andy, just in terms of the capital allocation. And you initially talked about very strong discipline in terms of the buybacks, which I think really means that as the share price continues to well now starting to perform and hit some levels perhaps there may be scope for a return to maybe some special dividend. Like if you get to the point where the buybacks no longer become enhancing and you start generating that free cash flow, not spending, would you look to use the leverage target of 1x through in-year specials? And to repeatedly do that or not.

Andy MacKinnon

executive
#46

Yes. I mean, I think that's a fair question. I mean, obviously, as we set out in the presentation, we do have a clear internal framework. We're not disclosing share prices, but we do require to the extent that we're buying back shares is from surplus capital. So it's not money that could be deployed elsewhere within the business. It's EPS accretive. And then on top of that, when you do sort of an ROI calculation, it makes sense and is it just being used to nudge of earnings per share. I don't think we're near that point even with the movement in share price that we've seen this morning. But you're right, in principle, if it got to a point where it was no longer attractive to buy back shares, and we would look at other uses of capital. I think one of the nice things about the fact that we operate the business with with 1x leverage is that gives us a bit more flexibility. So we, in addition, have an opportunity to drive EPS accretion through deleveraging the business. We don't do that at the moment because we think it is comparatively more attractive and to repurchase shares, but there is a subset of options that are available to us which we will adopt depending on whichever we think is best for shareholders.

Adam Tomlinson

analyst
#47

Adam Tomlinson from Berenberg. You touched on it a little bit there, but just a follow-up on Great. So back into growth now, but still that delta in terms of increased growth versus Moonpig growth. So I was just wondering a bit more color maybe on where you think Greetz is perhaps underperforming versus Moonpig how you get that going? And just your confidence, I suppose, over time, in when you give that mid- to high single-digit revenue growth guidance, can both brands be at that level?

Catherine Faiers

executive
#48

Sure. So I think with Greetz, we've seen good momentum over the last few months, and it's been really encouraging to see. What's been particularly encouraging is the growth that we've seen in some of the foundational loyalty levers that have been so important for the U.K. market. So we've seen good growth in reminders, good growth in Plus, and we've seen a continued, I guess, trend towards more stable, low single-digit revenue growth. Over the midterm, I think with Greetz, we're very comfortable with the overall group guidance. Of course, we would believe that we can keep laying those foundations that we can keep driving the trajectory of that business to be closer to the U.K. I think we've still got to prove that we can do that and that we can do that sustainably. And that is our job for the next few months to figure out. There will be a version of the products, the formula that we're deploying in the U.K. And the great thing about having multiple markets is that we see where we launch features where we launch products, we're getting a better understanding of what we can build at a group level and just deploy and launch into a local market versus what needs some also more customization and tailoring. And we are -- I think what I get really incorrect is that I feel like we're really figuring out those formulas. And we've got a good team driving Greetz, a good team on the ground that have got momentum. So I'm hopeful that we'll be able to prove out a track record for Greetz as well as a very strong track record we've got in the U.K. business. Great. We will wrap it up there then. Thank you ever so much for joining us today. The team are here. So any more questions by [indiscernible] them down. Thank you all.

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