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The SP is struggling to get above 170p and sustaining it. Wednesday 19th Jan Trading Update Friday 25th Feb final results Couple of dates to affect the SP thoughts anyone??

I agree with sulfur on this, the reason price went close to 8p was pure buying pressure with people just getting in for the punt, however with the scoping results due soon 8p will almost certainly be surpassed even if not sustained in the near future.

Its finally on the up, its been a good few days for WMH, lets hope it continues. Think its ben dragged up once it hit sub 160p that was a snip!!

Trading Update 2 November 2010   Stagecoach Group plc ("the Group") is today publishing an update on trading in advance of a series of meetings with analysts.   Financial performance    The Group has performed well since 30 April 2010, and remains on course to meet its expectations of profitability for the year ending 30 April 2011.    Like-for-like revenue growth in each of the Group's main businesses is provided below.      UK Bus                        - twenty four weeks ended 17 October 2010             2.3%   UK Rail                        - twenty four weeks ended 17 October 2010             6.5%  (excluding tram businesses)    North America             - five months ended 30 September 2010                   7.5%     Virgin Rail Group         - twenty four weeks ended 17 October 2010             15.2%   The Group does not expect the recently acquired East London Bus business to materially affect the Group's profit for the year ending 30 April 2011.   The Group notes the UK Government's Comprehensive Spending Review announcement on 20 October 2010, including the planned 20% reduction in the rate of Bus Services Operators Grant ("BSOG").  The BSOG change is effective from April 2012 and does not directly affect the Group's profit for the year ending 30 April 2011. The Group will take the changes into account when making future decisions on bus services, tenders and fares. Interim results The Group plans to announce its interim results for the six months ended 31 October 2010 on 8 December 2010.                                

In the speech it was announced only 20% cuts on public transport subsidies this was better than expected.

The warmfront contract expires in two years but has been scaled back to 110 mil next year and 100 mil year after that. Substantially less than what was expected.

The information is from an article on lse.co.uk 'Eaga shares are tanking because of the phasing out of the Warm Front scheme, because the uncertainty over what will replace it gives little reason for investors to buy the share,' says Henry Carver at KBC Peel Hunt. 'However, although it accounts for 50 percent of Eaga's revenues, margins are only 2 percent, so it generates less than 20 percent of profit, and the company should benefit from the drive towards energy efficiency generally,' he adds. Clearly as it's a government scheme aimed at helping fuel poverty it was never meant to be massively profitable however the sheer volume of work it gave EAGA meant it still totalled 20% of their profit. Also worth noting the warmfront scheme is still worth £210million over the next 2 years.

The fall is due to the warmfront scheme which is run by EAGA being axed in the cuts yesterday by the government. Although this is 50% of EAGA's revenue it only accounts for 20% of their profit as its a government scheme with only a 2% profit margin.

on the acquired business The acquired business is the third largest bus operator in the London market, and has an estimated 15% share of that market. 99% of its revenue is from Transport for London. The business operates bus services under contract to Transport for London whereby it receives a fixed fee (subject to adjustment for certain inflation indices) for operating the services and takes the cost and capital risk. The business operates from 10 depots and has a fleet of around 1,400 buses

15th October 2010 Stagecoach Group plc ("Stagecoach" or the "Group") acquisition of bus business from East London Bus Group Limited Key highlights · Acquisition of third largest bus operator in London with a market share of approximately 15% · Transaction enterprise value of £52.8m · Opportunity to create value through turnaround of under-performing business and back-office savings · Modestly accretive in the first full financial year

I've done some research on the indian licence and who got it and cant find out any information. Massive potential there though. Several UK gambling operators are bidding for the first online casino gambling licence in India and its estimated £37 billion betting market. William Hill, Betfair and Bwin are among the 13 companies in the bidding war for the internet licence in the Himalayan state of Sikkim

27 October 2010 Ex-dividend date 28 October 2010 Q3 Interim management statement

I was thinking the same thing, looking for it to rise this week hopefully it wont go any lower. If it goes sub £1 I'll be topping up although in here quite heavy already.

Back in here good value and a nice dividend at the end of the month should see rise to end of the month me thinks

Would appreciate thoughts here seems cheap from 6 months ago! Recent bad news on test results has hammered this share price. Took a hit last week then recover to 140p then took a further knock back end of the week.

Lots seem to be into gold and oil at the minute but every portfolio shuld have steady companies with potential growth. I've been in for a while just topped up friday morning looking for a rise up to 120-130p before xmas happy to hold these though, at this price though good buy.

If it helps I sold out today but have been in and out before. I was in at 168 sold out at 199 today. I agree think 1 type of person goes in a bookies but the number of bets are still being taken just by very many different methods that's the only difference these days. WC will have affect but by how much no one knows it's a gamble!

With alot of races and football fixtures called off due to weather will have signifiantly hit revenue, may be reason for steady decline.

Looking good here. Back in now after a while out got in at 166 and topped up 168. Massive potential with the World Cup if you can afford to hold that long. As we come out recession more people will have more spare cash and gamble some will win, most will lose. If Indian licence is got get ready for massive SP rise. William Hill is ready good value still at less than 2 quid.

I've been in and out of this a few times last sold out at 232 just before the last big drop with the RI and said I wouldn't get back in unless it dropped below 190 so here I am got in at 167 the other day also playing with 200 in mind and holding some back for toping up purposes. Football season for the Premier League starts tomorrow so hopefully we'll see a good start monday morning especially with big 85k after time buy. GL