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There you have your director buys.
Vod closing Sp 9th Feb 62.97p
Exil 68p winner
KiwiTwo 73.80p
Lawrence 72.75p
Doyen Dan 72p
Talatum 70p
Robleo 70p
Jesteh 73.21p
Tars 73.14p
Carlo 70.91p
Aspers 69.8p
Newsid 73.60p
FredRubble 69.69p
Roofer 69.60p
Atb
Accolade this low week goes to " Exil " well done
Vod closing Sp 9th Feb 62.97p
Full list will follow Enjoy your weekend..atb
I will go 67p please roofer.
Beo. Very good point, but wasted on many on this forum who just want to have a knee jerk moan about the c.e.o. It might even be classed as insider dealing, I'm not sure. We are all frustrated by vod's sp performance, but please think before posting on here. Good point from stevebt as well. A very bad week obviously, so let's hope something possitive is around the corner. Good luck to all vod shareholders. We need it.
Big drop in all shares and Lloyds so not trumpet blowing time.
I is wundering where Jaxi50 is, he woode like a day like this.
He has bean right the whole way.
So has I, althuogh I is not able too blow my own trumpet yet.
Davef24, If VOD are anything like the company I work for? The directors get loads of shares given to them based on a percentage of their wage so why put your own money in when there is no need to.
There is zero chance she'll be allowed to buy right now. She will be signed up to non purchase/sale agreements as a result of the potential disposals / mergers. all of which she is privy to information that the market isn't so will be restricted by more than the usual restrictions in place
if vod is so cheap why the **** are the directors not buying? she's destroyed vod, she needs sacking asap
I disagree. A good CEO will show solidarity with shareholders when times get rough, like now. That is if she knows the business will eventually succeed and the SP go up again. It would be a massive boost to market confidence in VOD if she bought in now.
Garonne. Give up mate, you have not got a clue what you are talking about. It is not the c.e.o. 's job to buy up vod shares, she probably gets a shed load anyway at a discount in the form of share options e.t.c.
" The share price is low in my opinion because of fears for the UK economy and labour tax rises"
....and what about any fears about the German economy (and the German political situation) which VOD depends on for far more of its revenue than the UK ?
What is also obvious is how fundamentally important good telecoms is to the economy of a country. This can only occur if countries create an environment that is friendly for investment. For this reason I am extremely confident the merger will go ahead and that contrary to the fear mongers, the UK will continue to be business friendly towards telecoms. The share price is low in my opinion because of fears for the UK economy and labour tax rises, but even Labour can see that telecoms is an essential sector that needs protection and that any tax rises will need to come from elsewhere.
What’s “medium to long term” in terms of timescales ?
After selling at 69…..way too cheap now to ignore
Stil in the red. Onley the very brave will bye Vodafone.
Brave or stoopid prehaps...
" Currently, the government charges a 0.5% tax, known as the share purchase stamp duty"
I think you would be mad to make any investment decision purely on the fact there was no stamp duty..... if you believe in prospects the 0.5% shouldn't really change that
The problem isnt the tax... the problem ..it is the City which uses algos ect to sell at every single negative piece of data ....the market is like a seismic needle ..the market is very,very short term and is just a trading centre
you can see ..people choose to buy watches, trainer shoes ..whatever ..they create their own markets of other things that can create increased value ..and they say..shove it..to the City traders
I just doubled my investment at 63.20p/share. Happy for this to be a long term investment, particularly if they keep a good dividend (at least half the current one).
I'm interested in what people think about this idea - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/09/jeremy-hunt-may-launch-british-isa-investing-in-uk-company-shares
Interesting that the media are running the narrative that London as a major financial centre is in trouble. There seems to be a number of companies choosing to float in NY. Plus the EU taking away € clearing from London. Things don't look good. My investment in a developed world ETF is up 10% in about 6 months. So I can see investments outside the UK are doing better, particularly US investments.
Bought in £60k of vodafone and BT - so so cheap!
" Things will become obvious in the medium to long term by when its too late to load up2
Meshtrader
maybe so,..yes, but the City doesn't park its money and have it sit here waiting for that "medium or long term" .... like Retail might
The City will want to see evidence first and that isn't going to come for a while , on that front
At present I suspect the market sees the current Q4 as being similarly dull as Q3 ( FY guidance suggests that anyway) and may well look to the new Q1 results to see any material change
Beyond that there is the macro... which of course is plodding along and awaits any positive momentum ..Germany still has economic problems whilst China is poor etc and most dont see much change there either until at least the Q2 of the year
Pkerchips
As has been discussed here many times before, vod's future lies in its business services, this is where they have a significant differentiators which many pundits are missing completely. They are growing this segment substantially and they just got started. D
Things will become obvious in the medium to long term by when its too late to load up
Garonne´s problem is himself ,as he has invested without knowing very much about VOD and rather than blame himself, he takes it out on the CEO
..shameful, really
" They probably use the working capital to settle Bond debt as it matures."
Fleccy
In H1 they part used existing cash to pay back Euro 5.492 billion borrowings and pay the dividend ( cash outflow ) which is why the cash ( cash inflow - cash outflow ) dropped from 11 to 7 billion euro
Garonne what is it with your obsession? Who said she was going to make any share purchases?