Next week on the stock market

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What to expect from a selection of FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and selected other companies reporting next week.

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Published on 17 November 2023

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What to expect from a selection of FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and selected other companies reporting next week:

*Events on which we will be updating investors

As a catering supplier for large spaces and events (think stadiums, offices and campuses), Compass Group is benefitting from the return to normal life. Full-year organic revenue growth’s expected to rise 18%, with operating profit growth nearing 30%. Any deviation from these goalposts in next week’s results will cause a wobble from the market. We remain optimistic in the outlook but remember there are no guarantees.

We’ll be especially interested to see how demand from offices has been. This is an area of the economy that’s bouncing back in a different and hard-to-map way. There’s potential for the group to reprioritise other areas depending on how this shapes up over the medium term.

Outlook-wise, it will