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Royal Mail owner International Distribution Services’ (IDS) share price has delivered investors a healthy return over the past month. After a series of disruptive strikes, IDS finally struck a deal with the Communication Workers Union over pay and working conditions. With that out of the way, the hope is that the group will swing back into profit, having taken a battering in its last set of results.

IDS share price up over 13% since the start of June.

End to strikes could provide IDS with much-needed stability after months of volatility.

Forecasts are for revenue and earnings to grow over next couple of years.

International Distribution Services’ [IDS] share price has gained over 13% since 1 June. The stock hit a high of 231.11p in intraday trading on 4 July. While IDS’s share price has softened slightly, closing Friday 7 July at 222.1p, it is trading in a different class to May, when it slumped over 22%, to end the month trading just under 200p.

Still, over the past 12 months the stock has slipped 18% and is trading below a 260p year-high, hit in intraday trading on 25 April. This could signal that, despite the recent upswing, the stock is trading at a discount.

How is IDS performing?

IDS’s share price slump in May can partly be blamed on the publication of a bruising set of annual results.

For the 52 weeks ending 26 March, IDS reported a group operating loss of £748m, down from a £577m profit in the same period the previous year. Royal Mail posted an operating loss of £1.04bn, having made a £250m profit the previous year. Logistics business GLS delivered a £296m profit, down from £327m.

On an adjusted basis Royal Mail’s operating losses totalled £419m, down from a £416m profit. IDS blamed this on industrial action, inability to deliver proposed in-year cost saving, and fewer Covid-19 test kits being sent.

Prior to the results in May, it was announced that Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson would be stepping down in October. Thompson’s two-year tenure at Royal Mail was marked by strikes and fractious dealings with the Communications Workers Union (CWU).

Thompson said: “now is the right time to hand over to a new CEO to deliver the next stage of the company's reinvention”. Symbolically, at least, the departure of Thompson could represent a fresh start for Royal Mail, after a bumpy 12 months.

More logs for the fire, burn baby burn, isnt that right Mr Lard ;-)

https://www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb/opto/royal-mail-owner-ids-share-price-is-up-13-since-junecan-the-rebound-continue

Very pleased to see POLY keeping to their word with further investment in Kaz, its all about the dividends just remember that, all the rest will fall into place once divi's are reinstated, BOD dont want this delayed as they also need those Divi's! regardless of how much bashing Big-green-eyes does.

This moves has so way to go yet, 236 minimum i expect it may go past before consolidating, last legs of elliots wave is usually the biggest and start of long term trend...

@saltybigblueballs - your becoming a progressive drama Queen, the Dylan Mulvaney of warmongering

Gets complicated when you look at it like that, can see why the CWU are acting desperately, makes no difference really to workers or share holders as they have already said there wont be anymore strikes so take what your offered or get nothing.

Playing the old waiting game dragging it out might work by Davey boy, but that pot was well past boiling point so even now it might not be long enough for things to have cooled down, CWU have nothing to gain and everything to lose in this poorly played game of Pokerface.

@Oligarch - many companies have nefarious methods of making their staff work flat out, the harder you work the more they give you and you become your own worst enemy, im sure some system are setup for failure for only that purpose.

@Isleworth - "How's your average by the way? Still posting thinking of your wallet? Don't worry. Your 5 quid+ per share investments will soon be in profit."

You were being nasty, im not Mr Angry and will sit here arguing with you all night, so you will have to find another for that. Doesnt matter a jot if you like my opinion or not, couldnt careless. Perhaps Lord Red will entertain you?

See you have to start being nasty isleworth dont you, im not opening that door i bow to your superior knowledge sir, but you will have to try harder than that to wind me up ;-)

The point is a systems can be wrong, if a system is nearly always failing surely that tells someone with a little bit of common sense that something is not right? Or maybe RM like having these posties stretched to the limit?

Here they all come haha i knew this one would strike a chord, look the point was from outside nobody knows any different, while your all arguing about failure this late that the customer knows nothing and is just happy, how many actual complaints do you get off customers? Regardless of what is deemed as a failure, how many complaints compared to how many letters delivered, lets talk percentages here

One thing that i noted when talking to the posties she said about round failures, what maybe a round failure internally is not necessarily a failure externally.

Example if you post 2nd class its goes through no different to first class and gets there just as quick in my experience, most customers understand 2nd class is 3-5 working days.

So mail left over from the day before undelivered is always next in the queue and gets delivered first, why internally that maybe seen as a failure i guess hardly any customers would notice it, and probably still get a much better service than 5 working days?

So what is deemed failure on the inside of RM just gets the posties feet working a little harder with the pressure, thats how i read it, in reality how many customers complain, little to none i bet...

yes, not for wanting to be accused of having ocd, with all the career industries ive been involved in you cannot afford to be sloppy, things can go very wrong quite quickly, for our current acceptable standards you only have to look at the s**** show representing us in the house of commons. when you are represented by a bunch of clowns making up the rules as they go a long what hope has the average man got...

it seems logical to think taking a letter with a parcel, i admit to not knowing the internal complexities or the sorting and handing out to posties on certain runs, but i have no doubt it adds wasted time to each run requires extra staff at a cost, giving the parcel deliveries a chance with no additional stress from letters allows rm to start to compete with the other couriers, if only for two days over the weekend. you can then start to see where the value is, perhaps the .gov should be persuaded to give it a trial run?

Another new account, another new day, there are some posters who come on our board who must think we where born yesterday, you know who you are, you will slip up again just like you did a couple of weeks back, im already onto you just remember your only one click away from getting caught, then the hole house cards will come tumbling down....

Had good chat yesterday with the local posty girl ;-) she say's she'd forgotten about the vote everyone at their DO is just getting on with it, she couldnt even tell me if it was the ballot vote or vote to agree haha

She agree's the USO needs to be dropped to 5 days a week the only people who moan are the real old dinosaurs if their letters dont come on time on a weekend.

I would love the world to go back to a place where everything is organised, on time, efficient and of high quality, just like these oldies remember, but the world is a different place now, its ok to lie, its ok to cheat, its ok to give poor service as long as you are making money and paying your taxes (cough cough) isnt that right Red?

Big-baloney is a phoney

Life or burn take your pick....

@Oligarch - you got much time on your hands mate, your st6arting to sound like Keith Lard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQuNY78_4rc

@Broch - i dont get involved on this miniscule internal debates, they are for your company to sort out and thats what HR and management teams are for.

You also have to give some slack to those who are new, and setting something up first time, its OK to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

A lot of the moaning on here i feel is employee's with personal grievance with their manager else why would you be concerning yourself with what tom dick or harry is doing in timbucktuu? You get your own house sorted, lead by example and get on with the job, your not management, unless you are and have not disclosed it?

Oven*

Dear Broch - if your manager told you to stick your head in a fully heated over, would you do it?

Btw that exam requires 95%+ to get a pass, when you see what it is you will understand why, and you will understand my answer.