Charles Jillings, CEO of Utilico, energized by strong economic momentum across Latin America. Watch the video here.
Think of poor old me with five hundred pounds worth at 76p
You are right
I think that those in the Costain's ivory tower are deploying poetic license way beyond credibility. How they read the adjudication is way off the mark. I also got that sence in their annual statement. An amateur's attempt of mastering bullsh*t.
LOL, privations of English boarding school. The culture shock hit me like a sledgehammer when I found myself in a desolate institution in West Sussex. My nickname was 'chapati'.
We also took in Singapore, Malaya and HK.
Yes, enough reminiscing.
Likewise.
My father's three last projects were Gadaffi's never to be completed submarine base in Benghazi. Also a port up in Kasab , Oman, the closest point to Iran and Cementation's University of Muscat project that Mark Thatcher had successfully swung with some brown envelopes , nodoubt. At that point he was heading to his seventieth and could only get insurance in the States.
Btw, when we left India in '71, we got the sleeper train from Calcutta to Bombay and I spent the whole journey looking out of the window looking for tigers. We stayed at the old Taj Mahal Hotel on the quayside (the venue of that more recent terrorist attack), and within a few days we were on ship back to Southampton.
Sure, one shouldn't get too emotional on an old performer. However I was hugely lucky when I put 250k down when it was 30p ish and they shot up to 90 odd. I sold out at around 80p. Greedily I came back in owning about 1 % of the business. How I rue that purchase? In my early career I was a stock jobber on the floor. Even had the Queen Mum come and speak to me.
My father was a pretty successful Civil Engineer learning his skill in the REs' during the war. He was also the draughtsman for Billy Butlin's Skegness holiday camp before 1939. The hay day was after the war. British companies were building exclusive projects all over the Commonwealth. For that reason, I was born in Calcutta and sent to school in Darjeeling.
By hankering for the likes of Costain ( building the Channel Tunnel), construction companies are now as low order as cleaning companies, ten a penny.
I would have done better at the tuppenny slot machines on Brighton Pier.
Reading the Liberum article, it would seem that they will eventually pull themselves out of the *hit. It will probably take a further two years. I have had to hold my breath since 76p. This investment has been like stopping the clock for 3 years.
No wonder that none of them have bought shares.
Well, what's been happening today, then?
Cane Toad. This is even more painful for me. However, I think the day will come when all the planets are lined up and then the City will put a different gloss and it will shoot. The most nauseating company. The directors must all have big holes in their pockets as none of them have been buying. WTF.
What do you read in to it dazzag?
I noticed that. It may be a good day trading stock.
Fair do's.
I guess if I sold all my shares it would cause a mini earthquake. Hopefully that would be when it when there is no selling resistance and well above 80p
Somebody has been selling out today.
Much longer at this price the America vultures, sorry venture capitalists will be all over it.
I can see it heading to 80p within the next 9 months and that is being Conservative.
Well , it all sounds very promising as long as it doesn't turn out like that railway line leaf detecting machine.
What is wrong with this share? Surely the brokers would have been given a hint by now.
It actually makes me think that there will be nothing in the half year results to crow about. You can't blame me for thinking that.
It seems funny that the price is creeping up towards 6 monthly results day. If all goes well I can see this share moving to 80p.
I am with you.
I can't believe the new FD hasn't given the nod to the brokers if it was going well.