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Would be nice to get a handful of Alston shares for these!
It would be encouraging to see more director buys.
Hi Barcelona, Re Alstom, If you read Stokey12 post of Thursday at 07.51 and mine at 11.53 the situation will be clearer. Re declaring a divi, my desire to achieve a token divi has not a lot to do with actual cash exactly. I see it more as an advertising tool. TPG is too diverse, it has a collection of smaller companies that make promotion as a company difficult.
If one looks at the last 3 years say you see a well run company with a progressive BoD. You see strong revenue growth coupled with a strong order book growth. If a token divi was made it would show the confidence of the board backed up by those facts. The cost of say a tenth of a penny divi would be about a Mill including costs of setting up a maiden divi. I agree this is not an inconsequential sum but the gains could be dramatic.
The divi will advertise the company and make it noticed by the markets and prompt research into it. Many PI's and II's will only buy divi paying companies so we will be opened to maybe 10/20 times our current pool of shareholders.
In the last 3 years we have grown massively and trebled out revenue but the SP has not budged - something needs to change in my book and I can't think of anything else!
Results to be announced 20/10. Absolutely looking forward to it and the expected slow rise in the SP in the two weeks running up to that date.
The results, IMHO, may (or may not)reveal a profit to date nor any dividend prospects, but they should contain an encouraging view on future accounts and results. Personally, I would prefer them to reinvest in growing the business rather than pay peanuts to existing investors but, everyone to their own. The liaison with Alstom should be a good venture, they could buy TPG out of petty cash if they wanted and are impressed by their future.