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kcom div yield is now 6.5% - ridiculous !
Brantingham, which has a population of just 370, has raced into the internet fast lane after more than two thirds of homes and businesses in the village signed up to superfast broadband from local communications provider KC. As a result, the village now has an average download speed of 78 megabits per second (Mbps).
Got mine no problem cheers Kcom.
idealing have credited my dividend at some point today. Very welcome. idealing are normally quite prompt with their payments.
Just phoned the halifax as to the divi due today. They tell me Divi not recieved as yet from KCOM. More news expected Monday.?
Hmm, that's strange, my sell of 1599 shares at 16:20 showing as a buy.
to see buys and sells I think I would need level 2 data for that ? which I don't have...I just use Google which shows real time market prices. why were there no buys then ? were the market makers playing games ? I would have thought there would have been buys to push the sp back up...
That often happens ,But did you see any buys at that price at that time (NO)
at 8am today i saw the price fall to 91.5p...i fetched my laptop, transfered 3k across, went to top up and drat.....too late, sp was back at 95p.....would have been a real nice top up too... as for the div commitment, the 10% rise was almost guaranteed in the prelims a few weeks back, but nice to see it re-guaranteed...
10%. increase in dividends over the next two years, that should help the share price as well. Well done KCOM!
Looking good .
I'm in. Looks like mine was the only 'buy' below 93p today @12:59. So far so good! lol
When connecting to the wireless router on fibre it gives 5G access. when I asked why and what did it mean, I was told its for a later date wait and see. .....Didn't know there was a 5G, anyone enlighten me?
Well today KCOM installed my fibre broad band,,,,WOW . I am supposed to get speeds of 75 but actually getting 87. Its called light speed and wow isn't it just that its brilliant. There is now a waiting list to get connected due to word of mouth and the scramble to get on board, every day another neighbour is being connected. I can relate to the point made in the statement about the take up being ahead of expectations. I have never seen anything like it. KCOM just go from strength to strength. I have to say also the technical support line that's free with the package is just great too. I simply can not understand why the sp stays below the pound mark.
After Orange
Are vod really sniffing round? Would make a good plan for them but Kcom would do well to remain stand alone. Their business plan is sound
- earnings and EPS up albeit slightly. - divs up 10% as promised. - return on equity 47%. for the last 5 years return on equity has been over 50%. - kcom are paying out over 60% of their earnings on dividends. - slight increase in total assets but also slight increase in liabilities, so total shareholder equity has increased slightly to £85m *HOWEVER* goodwill is down as £85m also so actual shareholder equity if you discount goodwill (which i always do) is zero. - for free cash flow i calculate : Operating CF 73.176 plus interest received 0 minus interest paid -4.436 minus tax paid -1.531 minus fixed asset purchases -16.207 plus fixed asset sales 0.633 =£51.635m so free cash flow good. actually FCF/share is higher than EPS this year but over the last 5 years FCF/share is on par with EPS. overall i am happy with these results, the expectations were that profit was going to decrease slightly so nice to see a small increase. like most people tho im here for the divs but i dont think thats a bad thing, after all some stocks are purely for divs, like national grid for example, and i suppose kcom too. i am slightly nervous about the shareholder-equity-less-goodwill situation though, so to be honest i would not mind if they cut divs a bit after 2016 and put some money back into the business, see that shareholder equity figure rise.
I bought in here 3 weeks ago, after studying the TA and fundamentals. It seems a solid company with prospective contracts and a good track record. I'm pleased with today's results.
I find it interesting that no one is saying what great news the under lying figures really are. This financial year was the first year that KCOM were not having to drag Hull City Council along after they awarded their contract to another Company for the first time...freedom indeed from their historic mill stone.. On a stronger note from the statement do we all think an expansions on the cards or diversification perhaps ? One things for sure they have turned a lot of heads today reading the reviews.
Next time I come out with an observation like that , would someone politely tell me to "zip it " !
Just part of an additional tax incentive where you purchase £ 125 of shares before tax ( real outlay £75 on 40%tax) I believe.
I see the BOD's bought about 500 shares between them somthing must be up ?
As I type 1 share in every 1800 has been traded today so far and with the buys outstripping the sells by a factor of more than 2 the price has dropped by 3p--work that one out !
What is it with this one buys outweigh sells yet sp goes down.
I thought that as well , like BT 5p , BP 0.25 US $ etc.etc. but KCOM did at one stage fall as far as about 8.5 p and I know this for a fact , as I once worked for them and as a member of an additional tax incentive scheme where for £125 a month before tax shares were purchased and extra matching shares were allotted . The basis was something like buy 3 and get 2 matching for free. That price when the dip occurred was not for long but is indeed fact.