RE: Takeover prospects for PFD12 Apr 2020 13:14
I hope you are right. I use to post so much on this BB about how PF would be taken over, but what changed my thinking was the initial Nissin bid of 52p and that was the only bid " with no strings attached." The two further bids of 60 and 65p were highly conditional and subject to going over the accounts " with a fine toothconb." They went over the accounts and said no, at the time Gavin Darby was blamed by most on this BB, when in fact he was saying no to 52p and yes to perhaps 70p which was the price the "quality press" i.e. FT, Sunday Times and Mail etc suggested a deal may go through at. However, Mc Cormick pulled out. Since then nobody has bid for the company and if they did, they would almost certainly be inferior to Mc Cormick. Nissin do not want to bid for the company or even build to 29.9%, if anything they would like to buy the company out of Administration, a position PF will not be in.
I sold out because, I feel at 20p I may soon get the chance to buy the likes of Lloyds, ITV or even Virgin Money and they will double at some point and I feel the proceeds can be put into a stock that has not recovered, but will recover later.
The timescale in which this may happen is within the one PF could still be stuck in the doldrums.If PF was not taken over when it hit 45p, I cannot see it at 25p. We must appreciate we are going into a recession and an already Brexit weakened economy. We will see Aldi, Lidl etc taking a lot of Tesco, Morrisons sales, that is why their SP' are already reflecting this.