THREE of this year’s best performing stocks – easyJet, Booker and Domino’s Pizza – will post updates this week in what should be a quiet post-Easter period for corporate news.

Fuller planes of passengers fleeing Britain’s freezing weather are expected to boost figures from budget airline EasyJet when it updates on trading on Friday.

The group, which recently entered the FTSE 100 Index, is expected to report good momentum, with analysts forecasting a “positive pricing environment”.

EasyJet’s load factor – the measure of how full its planes are – improved to 88.2 per cent in the 12 months to the end of February, ahead of the 87.8 per cent rate seen a year earlier.

Passenger numbers were also up seven per cent to nearly 60 million over that period.

Ahead of easyJet’s update for the six months to the end of March, Numis Securities believes the carrier’s winter trading has been boosted by the weather sending Britons abroad in search of warmer conditions.

Britons’ appetite for fast food is expected to continue driving growth at pizza delivery chain Domino’s, which updates on trading for the first three months of the year on Thursday.

While heavy snowfall affected its performance, Domino’s said it made a solid start in the first seven weeks of this year, with like-for-like sales in the UK stores up by 1.6 per cent. The chain said that would have been 2.6 per cent growth without the snow.

Analysts at Numis see Domino’s making pre-tax profits of £50.5m for the year to the end of December, up from £46.7m last year.

However, analysts at N+1 Singer recently downgraded the group from buy to hold on valuation grounds, arguing that its shares are likely to run out of steam after a strong run.

Fourth-quarter results from Booker Group will shine a light on recent trading as the cash and carry chain celebrates approval for its takeover of smaller rival Makro.

Booker was handed a boost recently when the Competition Commission (CC) provisionally approved its acquisition of the 30-store chain.

Booker supplies nearly half a million businesses, including corner shops, pubs and restaurants from its 172 sites across the UK. The CC ruled that the enlarged group will “continue to face sufficient competition from other wholesalers”.

On Thursday, the chain reports on trading for the three months to the end of March, ahead of its release of full-year earnings expected in May.

Analysts expect the chain to post full-year pre-tax profits of £95.7m, according to a consensus of ten analysts supplied by the company.

That compares with £90.8m earned a year earlier.