Yeah. Brent creeping up too. I find it difficult to understand why Wood Group moves up and down by the huge percentage that it does while the movement in PFC is more measured? WG has greater debt but has made provision for adverse SFO investigation @ 45mil. Interesting that PFC have the capacity to make a provision for FSO but they haven’t?
My best guess on the irregular behaviour of the share price is the long and short held by black rock and probably others off the radar who are taking the opportunity to shake the tree.
The debt position of the two company's is very different Alto. I think that PFC should certainly look at some of sensible measures that WG have taken but PFC can and should pay a dividend. At this point in time I don’t think that there is any need to change the decision to pay a dividend as circumstances could change markedly for the better or worse over the next 7/8 weeks.
Sorry. My response was to stockdale. To often it’s written that the sfo stuff is baked in. I don’t see that. If the case is dropped the SP will rise. If there’s a fine, it’ll result in the SP dropping. No?
POO and SFO holding this back relative to rest of market methinks. BP equally sluggish in comparison to the stellar performance today of Marstons for example.
I guess it only matters in the context of when they took short and the price they paid? I’m hoping we have hit the bottom so any shorts taken out now will be concerned about any upward movement and the dividend.