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10:17 and a largish trade went through 96,470 shares at £ 84.65 k --final results due June 7th.
seems i sold to early, still surprised its still going up.any input, ie understanding on the buys and sells as ive had other stock before and still left at a bit of a lose as to understanding movement.
bought back in a we bit high but sold last week at 86p so i made a bit of profit. IL wait till it comes down a bit then get straight back in. Still i got 3 bottles of Adnams im going to enjoy.
Been away for a couple of days and am pleased with what has happened , as I understand it there is nothing meteoric to report but the fibre to premises went well and planned to double I believe within the next 18 months or so , several contracts won , but results as far as I am aware in line with market expectations -- I personally anticipate a favourable reaction ,nothing daft , just a nice slow progressive rise ---best share in my portfolio and definitely a hold --how you doing Ragamuffin --bet your glad to be here !
Kcom Group (LON: KCOM)'s stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by investment analysts at Espirito Santo Investment Bank Research in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, Analyst Ratings Network reports. They currently have a GBX 100 ($1.56) target price on the stock.A number of other firms have also recently commented on KCOM. Analysts at Barclays Capital reiterated an "overweight" rating on shares of Kcom Group in a research note to investors on Wednesday, April 17th. They now have a GBX 95 ($1.48) price target on the stock. With the Company announcement coming in a matter of days does someone know something is in the wind?
Once again an unusually high volume traded and indeed a higher than average volume per. trade. Bit of a fallback in sp. this pm. with a fair amount of profit taking. 0.6 p rise on day and continual upward trend IMHO . Not a great fan of big quick rises which make me think too volatile . I sleep easily at night with this share !
Yes as stated its good to see kcom offering TV package like BT. That along with the O2 tie up offering cheap mobile with the bundle offers they are really getting to grips with local services. Hope to see the end of broad band limits on packages soon though.
Anyone know whats sparked the many buys today. It was cool to watch the swing in price as the buys were going in.
sounds good.like speckled hen.Adnams broadside is good too.nice to have the price up again.Kcom are advertizing TV now .I heard it on the radio when in Cottingham.
Sweet--- Fancy a Mr. Kiplings washed down with 8 or 9 speckled hens Ragamuffin ?
Thank's john, had kcom for a couple of year's now, got a sipp i put them in to,good dividend plus i lived in Beverley for about 16 year's so i like them.
Hi Ragamuffin , As i posted on friday there has once again today been unusually high volumes with avge .trades of 10.5 k shares + when the norm is 2-3 thousand . loads more buys than sells and a small drop in sp. Someone must know something . Worked for Kcom for about 8 years and love this share . Bill "the fish" and the board have a vision for 2015 so unlike when they "bombed" in the dotcom crash I really do expect good things are still to come. Nothing meteoric , just a nice slow upward trend , good dividends and steady growth .
like to know who the big buyers are, not made much difference to the price, any one any ideas as to why.?
no idea i wish i new.
The average trades today ( volume / trades ) were probably twice the norm. Always encouraging to see more buys than sells but better still to see 80p+ . Any ideas why ?
It further reported that Smart421 and Eclipse "continue to perform well in their respective markets". Meanwhile, Kcom was described as making "a strong contribution to the quarter's performance". Commenting on trading, Bill Halbert, Executive Chairman of KCOM group stated: "Market conditions continue to be challenging. The group has however continued to exploit successfully the opportunities that are there, with positive momentum across all brands. "We remain confident about the quality of our business operations and their capacity to generate cash and reconfirm our commitment to a minimum 10% growth in the dividend in this financial year."
FTSE 250 communications services provider Kcom has published an interim management statement for the third quarter ending December 31st disclosing progress in the face of challenging market conditions. In the update, which did not include any numbers, the company reported that public sector remained an important opportunity for the business's growth, adding that Kcom had secured a number of contract renewals which had further contributed to an increase in the company's multi-year order backlog. The group reported that Kcom was named as the preferred bidder by East Sussex County Council to provide a hosted managed communications service on behalf of public sector organisations as part of the Link Consortium arrangement.
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of KCOM, the FTSE 250 broadband and communications provider, sold half a million shares at 73.5p each. Paul Simpson, who has held the role of CFO since May 2004, earned £367,500 before tax from the transaction. He now holds 1.02m shares in the group, equal to 0.198% of the issued share capital
4% up on Friday - good to see the large purchases as well. Must be trusts rather than P/I's, so good marker for the rest of us and this on no company updates or presentations that I can find., Still good value for the year end rise and the 2013 bull run!!! (is this the first time you have heard of this!!) DYOR and continued good luck. DEBs1
Kcom appears to have found its new trading level and must be fair value at these levels and an opportunity to top up?. 1. Good return from dividends and 2. the chance of more upside with little risk now of massive downside movements as divi underpins the price at this level. 3. Always the chance of a strategic split and takeover for the parts by other telco's - longer term view only?? Good luck with KCOM.
About the sp. Just holding long term for the dividend. Interim dividend increased by more than 10%. Regards.
Hi all. any one any idea why this is dropping as we are still getting a good dive.?
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) declined by 3.9% from £40.7m to £39.1m. However, profit before tax improved by 2.2% from £27.0m to £27.6m due to a reduction in interest costs and lower depreciation. The company raised its dividend by 10.5% from 1.33p to 1.47p per share. KCOM said: "While we expect the macro-economic uncertainty to continue to slow decisions on new investments across our markets, we remain very confident about the group's prospects, its underlying strength and continuing cash generative capacity. "We anticipate that KC will continue to outperform its peer group and remain confident that Kcom will continue to gain market share despite the difficult trading environment."
Broadband and communications provider KCOM reported a slight fall in revenue and earnings in the first half, but said that this was still a 'solid performance in challenging conditions'. However, the company reported a large increase in net debt from £75.3m at March 31st to £94.3m, partly due to a working capital outflow associated with a number of unconnected on-off factors, an increase in capital expenditure and the purchase of £10m KCOM shares as part of its share scheme obligations. This was the first increase in net debt in four years following seven consecutive six-month periods of decreases. The firm expects a "modest reduction" in net debt in the second half but it will still be higher year-on-year, mainly due to share scheme purchases. Shares were down 3.3% at 68.95p in early trading on Tuesday morning. Revenue in the six months to the end of September slipped 4.7% from £198m the year before to £188.7m, which KCOM said reflects the "anticipated reduction in certain areas". In particular, the decline was attributable to a £7.7m year-on-year fall in the revenue associated with a specific one-off network build contract.
very happy with that.