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One to hold tightly in times of uncertainty.
Buying for the first time to hold for a long time. Impressed by the business and the results. This is a very resilient and defensive play cash cow. To hold for a long time as a passive income and especially as energy storage/renewables play with demand to be going exponentially in the next few years.
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The market and PI's didn't appreciate releasing write offs of 5 - 10 million before the results. They could have waited till the result day instead of releasing "partially" bad news earlier. I am not happy about this situation at all. IMO till the results, this will be on a Russian roulette mode because they made things worse as everybody is now going to ask what's coming worse next. Stupidity or something is not right somewhere.
If material price increase, the service cost has also to increase. Everybody agrees that the cost is spread equally so no part will get the full weight on its shoulders. For example if farming costs increase, agricultural product sold at the supermarket would increase too.
2022 will be the year of recovery and growth. Could reach £1 by December. I expect the insulation business particularly to perform strongly in 2022/23 as increase in heating costs and energy bills will push authorities towards more insulation in housing and buildings.
Recent acquisitions - SM Roofing, F30 (construction accessories) and Penlaw (insulation), all
in the UK - are performing well, beating 2021 profit expectations, and fit our specialist model
• We see a clear opportunity to accelerate delivery against the strategic plan through targeted
investment in extending our product range, specialist solutions and footprint
As a result, SIG’s reputation and influence has been regained:
• Larivière (France Exteriors) awarded “2021 Best Specialist Distributor” (Geste D’Or 2021) and
UK Interiors awarded “Distributor of the Year” in the supply category (BMJ awards)
• SIG appointments to high profile leadership roles in key industry associations
• Increasingly viewed as an attractive and trusted home by prospective industry recruits and
M&A targets
If EVR was suspended because steel is used by Russian army to fund its military machine against Ukraine, what's about POLY gold funding the Russian war machine ? I would jump ship asap and just bite the bullet.
Cannot trade at ii.
"in the event that it becomes an entity owned by," - EVR is not owned by AB.
It means he cannot even sell one share in EVR.
Better to preserve cash in hard time. A wise decision. I wish POLY will d the same.
For both sides, there is not other solution than to stop the war, discuss and agree on a common solution - we are where we are. Otherwise everybody will be in a lose/lose situation with a catastrophic outcome for the whole world. Unfortunately this is the reality. Nobody can escape Newton's Law. In other words, anything that flies has to come back to earth. Nobody can escape gravity.
Commented Alastair George, chief investment strategist at research house Edison: "We would now highlight that it is in both Putin's and Russia's interest for the war to be stopped. The timing of such a move is necessarily uncertain but we believe investors should be on guard for Putin abruptly standing down Russian forces in Ukraine.
"This would lead to a rapid reversal of negative sentiment towards risk assets and significant falls in energy and food prices. With implied volatility in European equity markets already matching the highs of March 2020, it is already too late to 'panic-sell', in our view."
They cannot id there is an ex. divi date (10th) and a record date (11th).
Remember this: In one month, everything will be different as if nothing happened because - Never believe the politicians. They change their mind as they change their shirt. An example: The US sent a delegation to speak to the "evil man" of Venezuela. Who thought about this ? I will stay invested regardless of political dross flying around.
Dividend is taken care of and will be paid as written in the results. Ex. divi date is Thursday 10th and record date is Friday 11th . 20.000 shares = £7400 gross.
Regarding the conflict with Russia, IMO China will try to help broker a solution because if oil price goes to $200+ the world economy would suffer and China will have to deal with its own internal demons and hundreds of millions of unemployed Chinese. So the longer the conflict drags on, the harsher the world economy will be the hit. Not surprised to see things improving in the next few weeks.
Regarding the conflict with Russia, IMO China will try to help broker a solution because if oil price goes to $200+ the world economy would suffer and China will have to deal with its own internal demons and hundreds of millions of unemployed Chinese. So the longer the conflict drags on, the harsher the world economy will be the hit. Not surprised to see things improving in the next few weeks.
What can one do against a dictator ? No dictator gave up power until his death. We saw Saddam, Gaddafi, Hitler etc. And now we have plenty of new ones: the most dangerous are the one in North Korea and the other in Russia. Both with real weapons of mass destruction. What can the west or uncle Joe do against Putin if they cannot even touch a single hair of rocket man in North Korea ? Even Trump couldn't do anything against him. So how many solutions are left if everybody rejects a peaceful solution ? Let the Ukrainian people continue their march into the slaughter house and destruction ? I think those who had put them into the actual horrible situation without negotiating anything are the real culprits. It is time they rescue what they can before it is too late for the people of Ukraine and Ukraine itself. I cannot see any other way unless they just decide to openly fight against Russia with or without nuclear weapons.
Anon - Agree but he seems to take the lead single-handedly while others are just hiding under the table. Is it to impress uncle Jo ? Joe will just vanish when help is needed.