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From ChatGPT : If you're referring to Mobico Group's current cost-saving target, the company has stated that its "Simplify for Success" programme is targeting:

£75 million of in-year cost savings during 2026

£100 million annualised run-rate cost savings by the end of 2026

Management has said the programme focuses on simplifying the business, reducing overheads, improving efficiency, and increasing profitability across the group. Initial savings began to be delivered in 2025, with larger benefits expected through 2026.

For context, Mobico's earlier "Accelerate" cost-reduction programmes delivered approximately £52 million of savings, exceeding their original targets.

So the headline figure investors are currently focused on is:

Mobico cost-saving target: £100 million annualised run-rate savings by end-2026 (including £75 million of savings expected in 2026).

Some interesting responses from ChatGP : So I would say:

The sign-off was definitely positive and removed a significant uncertainty.

A modest share-price rise was justified.

A major re-rating would likely require either a large provision write-back, materially higher profit guidance, faster deleveraging, or evidence that the German business can now generate attractive returns.

The next results statement is likely to be more important than the contract signing itself, because that's where management may reveal whether there are accounting gains, provision releases, or upgraded profit expectations flowing from the new structure.

John 33 Share Price up from around 17.5 to 25.5 this month. Only a 48% increase in less than a month.

Truely appalling performance. Come on Mobico, put some effort in , John wants much higher prices !!

Plan ? It's already happened today. A whole day that the share price has not gone lower !

Prob back to normal tomo.

Sold at 1.21 this morning. See what happens.

After been in the red for 3 years since buying these, i'm relieved to get back to break even today !! Strong performance recently with better news and results. Usually better at finding decent buying price than selling but I hope it's the opposite with Rank and i can sell at a good time (For Once !! lol ) GLA

Takes 9 months or so of reasonable share price movements to build up a 14% paper profit, then 1 hour to lose all of it to get back to where you started --- and the results were not obviously that disasterous to warrant a massive collapse of 17%

If its on , shares go down 10%, if its off shares go down 5%. Always attach reasons as to why to lower the price but they just go down continuously anyway , regardless of anything .. Great shares !!

Smokeytime , except maybe when it goes up 70% in 6 months ?

I'm laughing now after all that swearing last night !!!

Could do with a good 3 weeks or so to push Rank back into the FTSE250 and hopefully

restart the upward momentum. I never took chances of further buying at the much lower

levels and therefore i'm still well down on these with break even of £1.11 With patience i think

it should recover and getting back in FTSE250 would help.

recover

Having bought my first Mobico (National Express) shares in Dec 2022 at £1.30, I'm relieved to finally be back at break even after nearly 2 years of been in red.(Further buys at 0.78 and 0.62) Hope to now see some good profits build up soon !!

GLA

Also , FTSE 250 looking very likely soon.

Tickets booked just in time for another big pay day on Saturday. Come on England !!!

If they do have to bid the highest price in the last 12 months ? (I'm no expert) --- Using the one year graph it looks as if they

would have to wait until at least early August if they wanted to bid around 90p or until after January 2025 if they wanted to try lower.

what's the difference between good results and bad results ?

bad results, share price crashes , week after results , share price is s**t

good results, share price goes down slowly, week after results, share price is s**t

maybe someday these will actually go up ?? had for years and the heading sums up saga's share performance.

****ed off but will hold for longer.

If , as it seems , Buzz Bingo is up for sale this year ---- what effect do you think this will have on Rank ?

Insurance companies shares well up today ! & then there 's Saga of course

Lets hope the 75p ish on 25 Aug does actually prove to be the low point. Now over 15% up on this -- so fingers crossed that we now continue to steadily increase over a long period back to more decent prices !! Maybe things have actually turned direction, even though it's hard to realise this when you're still so far down. GLA

Interested to notice two very big trades of £2M each around 4.20 pm at price of £1.837 (Probably Buys).

Also other big trades of £236K and £437K. I've only just started to look at CRST and assume that these are

actually unusually large and not a regular occurance ? Any comments from you people who have more

knowledge of CRST and have researched them over a long period.