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If you were answering the previous poster, you are wrong - we are getting a dividend. 8c (last year 10c).

They seem to be struggling to get any real momentum in the business. Blaming high interest rates, bad weather, labout shortages and concrete rationing for delays can only last so long.

Has anyone been to the AGM before? Just want to now if it is simply a vote on the agenda items and get it done asap or wheather there are presentations on the business.

My worry is that US Judicial service seems to love fleecing British companies whenever they get the chance.

"Lets hope this is not another William Hill fiasco,"

Rather different scale

Absolutely not. Reading through the RNS and learning about the Romanian market, it sounds like a very sensible move. BUT when one of their main priorities is reducing debt, splashing the cash like this is a surprise.

Will be interesting to see how the market views it.

We're still a couple of weeks away from the finals, so it seems a bit early to be rising on the expectation of good results.

But for me it's way undervalued on what we know about current work load, so maybe it's just some people realising the potential

Yes - lots of positivity on this board but markets send the price down.

"Adjusted EBITDA loss expected to be in the range of £35m to £40m

Guidance for fy 24 was 45-50"

OK sorry, you were talking loss not turnover.

FY25 forecast loss of 35-40, this year's actual loss £30.4m so I still can not see this as an improvement.

"Fy 25 Guidance 10m ahead of last year,"

This year's turnover £16.5m FY25 forecast Turnover £18-22m.

Where do you get £10m from?

Given the growth in the pipeline, I'm disappointingly surprised at the very small increase in sales forecast for FY25.

"Until the government encourages / forces the UK pension funds and insurance companies to invest in UK companies, the market will moribund" of course Jeremy Hunt was trying to do this, and get PIs to do likewise with his UK ISA. But he hadn't thought through the detail. One of the hardest thing is to define what is meant by a British Company. Simply being registered in the UK and having a listing on the LSE isn't what he wanted - he wanted ones which earned most of their money in the UK. So you can set a limit: UK registered, LSE listing, and 75% (say) earnings from the UK. But businesses are dynamic - one new contract, or even just a change in the FX rates, and the % changes. all gets very messy and complicated.

Doesn't look good

Not sure why people are expecting more from imminent results - we had an update yesterday!

As for the William Hill takeover. I think it was a good idea - there must be loads of cost saving and business development synergies - one grew from an online gaming business the other from a physical betting business - great marriage. The problem was the price they paid for it. 5 years from now it might yet look like a great deal.

So according to the article - most of the Toyotas will be electric vehicles, and the rest will be hydrogen powered using fuel cells. Fuel cells are electric.

One of the objections in the article to using these Toyota hydrogen cars is that most of the hydrogen made in the world today is not green. But the Olympic Authorities have made it clear that the hydrogen used to power these cars will be green, So that's a pointless comment.

"In my humble opinion, we are overdue a significant market crash, similar to the autumn of 1929."

That happened in 2008.

"I am now less than 1% of my wealth in equities so it will not be an issue for me." It depends where your wealth is - a market crash does not just affect share prices.

"When Ceres is taken over, I will bank that gain." I think that very unlikely - Bosch would block a Weichai bid, Weichai would block a Bosch bid, and they'd both block a third party bid.

No idea what you mean. I assume you're talking about the share price curve, and it looks to me like it is ii a pretty strong up trend.

And it's lower than the Tory number & the Lib Dems.

No expectation of cuts to the dividend, so if you reinvest dividends, the lower price means you get more and more shares.

Got the email (twice) - not read it in detail yet; but this is ridiculous - one retail offer less than a month after the other. It tells everyone that the Bod have no idea how to manage their funds; and have no respect for their shareholders.

It was priced for growth.

The lower end of their Operating Profit projects would give an EPS of around 34. At 455 as they are as I type that gives a PE of 13, which would not be priced for growth, and is the lower end of their new predictions; so I would suggest the drop is slightly overdone. But of course markets don't like surprises and this was a surprise; so guess (without further bad news) is it'll settle around this price then slowly recover until we get the next update.