News on the Oxford Vaccine is due next week and is odds on going to be good. If that's the case MCRO may well have over done the 906m goodwill charge and with the companies getting back to businesses sales and revenue should increase.
I honestly didn't expect the SP to be where it is today given that pretty much everything in the RNS was expected. Even the announcement of Causeway Capital Management LLC taking nearly a 5% stake didn't help.
Market Cap is now pretty much the same as available cash and MCRO are generating in excess of 3 billion revenues.
Load of BS, I just had a play on "marketscreener" and every single stock I looked at came out bearish with poor support levels which shows how inaccurate it is in the current climate.
Massive overreaction to the interims here. Yes MCRO recorded a 922m goodwill impairment charge but it was the correct thing to do and puts the business in a good place moving forward. No debt to worry about until 2024.
Both M&G Plc and Causeway Capital Management LLC have taken large positions in the company, each with an approximate 5% holding and both bought within days of the interims. Looking good for recovery over the next year
I agree MCRO hold a fair chunk of Debt but that's understandable considering acquisitions the business has made between 2013 and 2017 that have allowed MCRO to increase revenue from 434m to 3.3b and increased asset value 557m to 14.3b.
MCRO has refinanced a large amount of its debt so now The Group has no term loan maturities until June 2024.
MCRO hasn't seen this Share price since 2006 so here's how the financials compare:
2006 Revenue: $143 m Gross profit: 131.5 m Operating Profit reduced by 44.4% to $22.7 m EBITDA reduced by 42.9% to $24.5 m cash: $55.9 m Current assets: 154 m
Vs
2019: Revenue: $3.3 b Gross profit: 515.9 m Exceptional items (294.2) Operating profit 221.7 m Exceptional costs (255.8) Adjusted EBITDA: 1.362 b Cash: 576.2 m current assets: 14.3 b
I normally enjoying watching James Martin but in his latest video, released earlier today titled: "How Aston Martin KILLED The Vantage, And Why Their Future Could Be Bleak" I am more then disappointed that this complete plank has clearly done little research and seems blind to what Aston have been doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9-nGgawAQc
IMO There seems to be resistance at these levels. Everyday we have seen intraday gains only to be followed by profit taking and a small retrace in SP. It doesn't appear that we will break 49p until some form of positive news is released.
No ones losing sleep, but honestly what conclusions do you expect people to draw when all of your recent comments contain pessimistic questions that anyone can find the answer to with 5 minutes of research; research that anyone should have done before investing, especially as you said you're a "Bookmaker by trade".
Yes we have probably jumped to conclusions but with trolls like Hawkhead winding up the members of this board it's easy to do and for that I apologise.
The Buy / Sell indicator is rarely correct unless there is a wide spread. I use to get annoyed if the SP was doing the opposite to the Buy / Sell ratio until I realised it meant nothing. best thing is to ignore it.