Terry Smith3 May 2021 15:46
Interesting article in the ft today regarding supermarkets.
Terry Smith doesn't seem to be a fan but others are more hopeful.
Terry Smith, one of the UK’s most successful fund managers, said the sector still had unattractive characteristics, including margins so thin that “every bump in the road is potentially very painful”.
“They also make very low returns on capital, significantly below their cost of capital, which in the long run is disastrous,” he said, adding that many of the benefits of restructuring had flowed to customers in the form of lower prices.
“Over time they have started to resemble utilities funded by shareholders for the benefit of consumers,” Smith said. “To paraphrase the late great Sir Brian Pitman, sometimes some markets don’t produce any winners.”