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WimTom you should read up on unrealised profits. they are similar because until sold the profit doesn't exist. This argument has been trawled by idiots for years, profits losses and break evens all hinge on a sale, if the holder hasn't sold then there is no profit or loss.

My stand in price for ITV is 57.7p so I have an unrealised profit. For the education of people who can't understand the following is from Investopedia.

Definition:

An unrealized loss occurs when the current market value of an investment is lower than the price at which it was purchased, but the investment hasn't been sold. Sometimes called a "Paper" Loss:

Because the investment hasn't been sold, the loss is only a theoretical or "paper" loss, not a realized financial loss.

Realization:

The loss becomes realized only when the investment is sold for less than its original purchase price. No loss until sold.

Tax Implications:

Unrealized losses are not typically recognized for tax purposes until the investment is sold, at which point the realized loss can be used to offset capital gains.

Example:

If you buy a share of stock at 80p but the price drops to 70p, you have an unrealized loss of 10p until you sell the stock, hence the reason many stocks are held for years.

Unrealized losses in banks:

Banks can have unrealized losses on their bond portfolios due to rising interest rates, which can cause the value of bonds to decrease.

Hedges:

Banks can use hedges to mitigate the impact of unrealized losses on their bond portfolios.

You buy something for £10 and sell it for £9 you have made a £1 loss, ask HMRC if you can claim tax relief on a loss if the loss is on paper. Thousands of funds this week are worth less on paper than they were a week ago, that's how it works. Unless someone actually crystalised the loss by selling they have lost nothing more than having to listen to idiots like Tom who can't figure out kintergarten maths.

It is impossible to bank a profit or write of a loss if you are a long term holder of shares, property, gold, art or any other asset.....as it happens many have ITV shares at 60p so on your reckoning because they were 80p last week, if they sold yesterday they would be on a loss.............Tom, you shouldn't be investing as you are too dumb to understand how it all works. Warren Buffett according to you lost several billion dollars yesterday, in reality he lost zero because he never sold a solitary share!

WimTom...you can only lose your shirt when you sell and I haven't sold....but I bought a big chunk this morning for a tad over 70p on a plo and sold them a few hours later for 72.40p. If I hadn't seen a turn on them, I would have collected the dividend and sold when McCall announces the All3Media deal, that this Trump slump may see even more interest in ITV.

When posts become so boring it hurts, it's time to stop posting. WimTom what has McCall's university got to do with the state of things in 2025. There are several uni's in Canterbury with a long list of very successful graduates. I would wager you do not have degree in anything apart from being a crashing bore. How low are your posts going to get as you drone on and on until the whining becomes so boring you should switch off your computer and go and get a job on a farm...you would be happier and so would everybody else.

Bye Tom, have a nice day!

Tom, talks started late last year, it's a huge deal worth £3 billion so it isn't going to happen until every little thing has been addressed. McCall whether you like her or not was known at Easyjet to be a hard negotiator. But it will happen if all falls into place, I would say it's a dead cert but I can't tell you when an announcement will be released to the media.

ITV are definitely in the final throes of a deal with All3media. Several months of talks between ITV PLC and All3Media "have progressed to a very detailed level". According to insiders Dame Carolyn McCall and the BoD have surpassed a far better deal than had they bought All3 in 2023. Hopefully we will all be better of soon, my thoughts are after the shares go ex dividend finalising after the dividend is paid on May 22nd.

O Malley, you admire Trump, Putin or people you see as strong. You show your true colours, Putin is a murdering thug who poisoned the streets of Salisbury and self styled Drag Queen Trump is a 24ct moron. You really are a saddo and maybe Russia would be an nice place for you to move to....then you will discover what a s***hole really is. I feel sorry for you.

As for ITV, good company about to have a huge deal....O Malley you better sell and get yourself off to Moscow!

O Malley. if you earned your money here don't complain be thankful for your good fortune. As for ITV being a turd, it is up 17.7% since March 6th so hardly a turd. O Malley stop watching the share price minute by minute and leave your ITV investment and collect the dividend or sell in May and go away. I may be wrong but I get the feeling all your woes are someone else's fault. Be happy with your achievements and remember 99% of those scroungers benefits go back into keeping the system oiled.....take a look at the USA, they took food stamps from the poorest and Walmart, Target went into freefall.....instant karma!!

O Malley. on reflection time you popped off to Portugal and out of this country. You are a loser and wherever you go you will whine and refer to the UK as a s-hole which it is not. If you need any financial help to leave the UK, we will have a whip around!

O Malley, think carefully and if you can always have a property in the UK to return to. Seen to many people stuck in Spain, France and Portugal plus other places who can't afford to come back. Also don't forget that 90% of Brits who can afford to move overseas can afford to because they owned property in the UK that had increased hugely and the profit is CGT free. Sell up in many countries and their Govt's take a chunk of the dough. You can rent in Portugal for peanuts, try doing it for a year and see how you feel....

The ITV sp movement is the classic behaviour of a share on the verge of lift off. But to those who expected it to happen last week on a positive report ...it happened in front of your eyes, a rise from 72p to 78.80p in three days plus a .33p per share dividend which is a prize to be thankful for. Those who expected this to jump up to a 100p will just have to wait until after Reeves has spoken, nothing to do with McCall, all to do with no nasties coming from Rachel....I actually gave McCall a pat on the back for her statement with the accounts, especially her message to the Govt to promote UK shares and maybe cancel stamp duty on share deals....will Rachel take heed, I doubt it but at least McCall is on our side!

Most pundits were happy with the results. There will always be doomsters but the share price reacted with a positive rise that got better as the report was being digested. There is a buy rec in a leading investment magazine and I think we may see more in the Sunday Papers. All in all good for investors, we could see a breakout in the coming weeks, it is good they have achieved this in what it a Media turndown.

ITV now has a fairly low Mkt Cap of £2.93 billion which makes it bargain basement to any big players looking to the future.

With the whole TV industry doing zilch, don't expect ITV to be reporting a good year, just hope it isn't worse than many expect and we see a 10% drop in the sp. The industry is still stagnant and laying off people. Just hope there are surprises this week, McCall's resignation would be a bonus.

good e-mail cromps, itv is a media company and in fairness dame mccall was never the right person to run it. the city started to lose faith when she made the comment 'we are not trying to compete with netflix or the big streamers'...at the time itv had a loser called britbox and the dodgy itv hub. from schofield's coming out as *** on breakfast tv while having *** affairs with staff, she actually stood by this fraud. then she got rid of piers morgan because meghan markle rang her and complained....well i personally can't stand morgan but he got a million eyeballs daily and that was good for advertisers. so many gaffs and frankly they got left behind!

o malley, i remain unimpressed by dame mccall, her stewardship has been weak, late on parade with streaming and her crazy theory that all itv dramas, thrillers cop shows have 30% of token mixed race disabled *** transgender cast, has made her a laughing stock in tv circles of dame woke. but that ship has sailed, you can't undo her huge mistakes. mccall's resignation a couple of years ago would have saved the itv share price from the 2022 freefall, but it's all baked in now. however, the talks are happening as we speak, there will be a deal and i reckon an announcement on results day...hope it's all good!

O'malley, there are most definitely talks happening and if you care to do some research they are real talks. As for keep harping on about the sp performance, have a look at the rest of the market. Now, what you should do is sell any holding you have in ITV, put the money into crypto or a stock that will appeal to your wanting to see it go up 20% or down 20%.

In the meantime stop whining, because the share price isn't going to do anything until an announcement is forthcoming.

It must be close to the end, McCall thought it prudent to buy back shares, well it will be for her and the other directors on bonus contracts, the rest of us can only hope the end of the buyback may see a rise in the sp. Like many others including some of the larger holders, the Britbox money should have been returned to shareholders who could have spent it as they wished. With their own cash they may have liked to buy ITV shares or a holiday, or a new washing machine. Sadly another bad move from the Dame of Doom!!!

Nothing wrong with living in a council house, totally stupid to not realize that many of our professionals and business owners plus a big chunk of the middle class hail from council estates. What any of it has to do with ITV is beyond me and I guess beyond anybody who believes in a meritocracy......Weird!!

O'malley, ignoring the obvious is often costly. ITV have been a disaster since 2018 when Dame McCall arrived to run things. This woman has proved beyond all doubt that she was never up to the job. A total disaster, late on parade with streaming. We all know how ITV have become a joke in the world of box ticking, most of their stuff is painfully in a another world where white people are a minority. I know we have some very dumb posters on this thread, but we know who they are and can laugh at their love of losing money. All very sad but they say there may be a bid in 2025, whoever gets it for peanuts should be indebted to Dame Carolyn, she will have helped them get it for peanuts.