Invesors chronicle27 Nov 2008 20:26
Market value: £2.56 billion Prospective PE 2009: 10.3 Prospective PE: 10.6 1-month price change: -3.8%
12-month price change: -32.4% Prospective yield: 4.9%
The shares of Kingfisher, the company synonymous with the do-it-yourself market in the UK and increasingly globally, remain a pale shadow of their former selves. Yet the chart suggests things may at last be looking up
for beleaguered shareholders and, if an upside breakout does occur, the shares could test 200p for nearly 80% upside. Having peaked at 702p at the end of March 1999, Kingfisher’s shares have been in longterm decline. They missed out on the 2003-to-2007 bull market, during which the shares traded in a broadly sideways range between 200p and 320p. The onset of the current bear market has seen the shares recommence their fall, culminating in a test of 92p in mid-July and capping an 87% decline in a little over nine years.
A clear gently downward-sloping resistance line has developed over the past nine months and is currently passing through 143p. Juxtaposed with this line is another that has defined rising support since the
92p low and that currently comes into play close to 101p. As a result a large symmetrical triangle pattern is developing. Such a pattern can break either upward or downward but there is an opportunity to trade for a possible upside breakout, with a close protective stop to guard against the downside.