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I'm more of a staycation kind of guy, and my fave tipple would be ESB, 1845 or King Goblin. And i own part of a local brewery so never have far to travel for a decent drop. ATB.
pfd shares are back on the up, 5.5p each for months, now closer to 7p. Once I got a couple of thousand sgc shares and for them to keep paying a divvi, and happy days indeed.
Sweet. A trip to Zakynthos will be on the cards for that beer soon hopefully. Mythos has to be the beer for me. Happy to share a few slurps with u.
Looking forward to that beer already. ATB.
If they all went off for a beer, hope they got the bus home lol
Meant to add that I only scanned through it so never noticed the date, once again, cheers mate.
It certainly has. Looking forward to my first divvi from here in March, it's not gonna be much, as I only have just over 250 shares, but then I only started buying in last November. Still, 2 free shares are 2 free shares. My holding will get bigger over time. Thanx for your past advice, when I become rich, I'll buy you a beer. GL
Thought the meeting was Friday 13th, just a beer and a chat, but must have been good as it has had a positive effect on the sp. RNS Number : 4965V Capital markets event 13 January 2012: Stagecoach Group plc ("the Group") will today host an event for institutional investors and analysts in London. The event is intended to provide investors and analysts with an improved understanding of the Group's strengths and opportunities, and to give them an opportunity to meet the broader senior management team. The event will principally comprise a series of presentations by members of the Group's management. The presentations will commence at approximately 9:30 a.m. Copies of the slide presentations are now available from the Group's website, at http://www.stagecoach.com/investors/financial-analysis/presentations/2012.aspx No new material financial information will be disclosed and there will be no additional statement on current trading further to that included in the announcement on 7 December 2011 of the Group's results for the six months ended 31 October 2011.
What the meeting was about yesterday? It seems they held some kind of meeting for II's Are they looking for money for some new project or something?
Shore Capital reiterated its "buy" recommendation for Stagecoach (SGC), noting its strong performance in the US market. The broker points out that the curb-side coach market saw a 6.7% rise in passenger growth in 2006, coinciding with the launch of Megabus and the first rise in 40 years. Shore adds that this growth accelerated to 30% in 2011 and with a further six hubs maturing, revenues and margins are expected to climb higher. Back in the UK, the broker says that the public transport company will focus on improving the efficiency of its network, increase marketing and upgrade its buses to attract more premium clientele. Stagecoach shares drove down 2.5p to 275.6p.
*BREAKING NEWS* The FA have demanded that Newcastle United remove the virgin logo from their strips after f****** man utd on Wednesday night!
RIP MWH. No more posting on the MWH board for us, it was fun while it lasted. Guess we could discuss matters here until other SGC'ers get the hump with us for taking up their space, or find somewhere else to go. There are plenty of boards where no-one has ever posted where we could go if forced off of here. We could start with OEC3 or OEC4, no-one ever goes there. Wishing you all the best for 2012. ATB.
I use EMT on a daily basis from Stockport to Warrington, and is usually busy. How come its losing money? I know this is only one of its routes, but it Cant be the only one carrying any passngers
I decided to follow your advice matey. Gonna get a smallish holding in here, upto 500 shares and then look at other things to add to my portfolio. I got 20k shares in pfd for greed, but going to look at smaller parcels in the bigger companies. Cheers 4 your help and advice GL
I'm in...only 65 shares at the moment but more to come gl
account:- Stagecoach Group plc ("Stagecoach") today completed the sale of its school bus operations in the US state of Wisconsin ("Wisconsin School Bus") to Student Transportation, Inc.. Part of Wisconsin School Bus will be held in trust, pending approval of the sale by the Surface Transportation Board. Wisconsin School Bus primarily operates school bus services under contract to school boards in the US state of Wisconsin. The business has been part of Stagecoach since 1999. Although the business has performed well, Stagecoach's share of the US school bus market is relatively small and the sale enables Stagecoach to focus its management and capital on less regulated North American operations, including the fast growing megabus.com business. The General Manager of Wisconsin School Bus and the rest of its management team has transferred with the business. The consideration for the sale equated to an enterprise value of US$47,000,000 of which US$46,750,000 has been settled in cash and the balance of US$250,000 is payable in six months' time. The sales proceeds will initially be applied to reduce Stagecoach's consolidated net debt. The gross assets of Wisconsin School Bus as at 30 April 2011 were US$21.8m. Prior to the sale we were forecasting revenue of US$36.4m and operating profit of US$4.0m for the year ending 30 April 2012 Could be useful for bringing down its debt.
Blimey, there seems a lot of interest here mate. Only seems to be us having any kind of conversation. Is everyone else on holiday perhaps?
So do I mate I'm sure it will. As you know I am in PFD at the moment and it seems to be climbing quite well at the moment. I was hoping it would stay at the 3p each mark for a couple of weeks so that I could top up to my desired holding of 20k shares cheaply but it has shot up to nearly 6p so it might cost me a little more that I had hoped. Talk about mixed feelings.......Grrr. I do like the idea of looking into peoples shopping trolleys in the supermarket to see what people are buying from "me", Love it when I see Hovis & Mr Kipling stuff in their bags etc, so I'm soon gonna be looking forward to seeing full buses and trans as well. GL.
We have very similar investment strategies, i have always invested in companies that i use and it has served me well over the years. Hope it works well for you. ATB.
I'v been thinking about this. Have decided that I am coming in here after all and look at cineworld later. I'm a bit of a strange investor, I do look at key information before investing, but I am more of a "would I use the company's products/services" kind of investor first closely followed by it's stats. An odd philosophy perhaps, but then the logic behind it is if its a good product that I use regularly then why not. East Midlands Trains has a lot to answer for lol. GL
Thanks again for your reply. It does sound like you have been dabbling in shares for some time, where as I am still learning. I have picked up a little knowledge here and there, particularly from these boards but it looks like I still have some work to do. When I first started it was just as a more interesting way of saving for my retirement which was the driver for me to start buying shares as opposed to just dumping money into a savings account and earn practically bugger all in interest, especially as interest rates being where they are now. I usually invest a small amount on a monthly basis until I think I have enough shares in a company and then start looking at investing in something else. As I mentioned in an earlier post I am in pfd (because they were suprisingly cheap considering the brands they have). I know about their issues but they are a share for future growth for me so not too worried about them and will have 20k shares by the end of this month which is enough for me, so hence I am looking at SGC and once I have a holding I am comfortable with then look at adding something else to my portfolio as I know that it makes sense to be in different things rather than everything in one particular share. Thanks again matey and GL
Never use sp's to compare shares. The sp is merely a function of how many shares are in circulation. Of much more relevance is the mcap figure. SGC has an mcap of £1.433 Billion, wheres Cineworld's is only £270 Million. So SGC is 6 times the size and has 6 times the debt, so they're very similar in that respect. SGC are very cash generative and have just returned £270 Million to investors, plus they offer a DRIP to help your investment grow. Why not split your money between the two, that way you have two bites at the cherry. I always bought small parcels in a lot of companies, and over the years have weeded out a lot of the losers. Currently know nothing about Cineworld, but will add it to a watchlist and keep an eye on it. Lets meet back here in a year and see which one has done best. ATB.
That info you gave me was most useful so thanks mate. I have done some research for my next holding and as I mentiond earlier sgc has come up on my radar however so has Cineworld, both look like a half decent investment. only thing negative I can see against the 2 sgc seem to have a midge over 650m debt against cineworlds 100m and yet the sp between the 2 companies are reletively similar. decisions decisions.........................
Positive article from Edmond Jackson http://www.iii.co.uk/articles/20560/stock-watch-stagecoach-group
That's pretty much the plan now. PFD holding I got purely for grownth now hopfully. Cheers 4 the advice mate.