RE: Anyone out there?30 Dec 2021 13:26
I'm here and surprised at the trading below 200p for so long. No news since Oct trading update, guess we have to wait for finals.
Here is the what they wrote in Oct which has two key temporary weaknesses highlighted;
"As anticipated, the post-lockdown recovery in market policy volumes has also been relatively slow. This may have affected us disproportionately as our customer-base is, compared to many competitors, indexed more heavily towards new business and new drivers, and so we have seen a temporary COVID-19 driven reduction in our normal target market due to the backlog of driving tests and significant delays in new car registrations, which has a knock-on impact on second-hand car sales. We have chosen not to engage in inappropriate price discounting to chase volume during this period, instead maintaining pricing discipline in order to preserve the strength of the business across the medium-term. "