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What do people think is the main problem with Capita?

Idiots like me 'invested' a life-changing sum thinking that AI would drive it forward.

Clearly AI has not positively affected the share price. Quite the opposite, as AI is more and more central to most of our lives capita loses another 40% of value.

I am not aware of new pathfinder contracts that demonstrate acceptability to the main customer UK government and local government.

Maybe as the British state becomes increasingly bankrupt the civil servants are going to close everything else down before they sack themselves or their friends.

Maybe capita will be right at the very back of any queue for new work because AI is such a threat to the civil Service?

How on earth has Capita not managed to convince on this?

It's extraordinary how much damage I have done to myself by believing JL and AH.

Completely irrational to put so much faith in something I cannot control.

I see that a strike ballot is closing today. The company seems to have been juicing the figures by delaying pay talks from April which they still haven't held now.

I've lost more money on this share than anybody probably in the last couple of years but...

Surely the government is going to want to save money and is going to want to outsource. They keep talking about it.

AI is dominating the US market so assuming we follow America as usual eventually it will arrive in the UK.

Interesting to see in the Telegraph a report on the first use of an AI language model called Tortus deployed to take voice notes and turn them into text during clinical examinations and appointments with patients.

Once this is accepted I imagine that capita will be able to sell AI into the NHS and other government departments. Good news.

Is there any point investing in UK shares? Given that Labour have only just started, and given that the US is about to deregulate and also cut corporate taxation, why would we keep money in the UK rather than in the States?

As an employer, Capita is just going to get hit again and again isn't it? I see that the government is starting to bring in four days work for five days pay in the public sector (South Cambridgeshire council).

If there isn't much money to go around won't they just cut all external suppliers to keep public sector jobs for as long as possible?

By the way, can our mentally ill, typing-diarrhea, posters just shut up for a few days.

Go and play agolfo or listen to capita radio. Get outsourced help!

The chief executive is Mr International. He is literally flying to Germany tomorrow.

His dad was a German diplomat and he's even got a German first name.

On top of that he is Spanish.

He has massive credibility coming from AWS.

Let's see what happens in the next few days but overall I can't understand why Capita is so poorly supported.

Can't people see that this company is ridiculously cheap yet well managed and with great opportunities in alliance with some of the best firms in the world?

I was pleased that Adolpho was asked my question about international opportunity as a result of the relationship with hyperscalers.

I am very hopeful that Capita solutions can be rolled over to other countries. Should be transformational.

Apart from going through a shotgun wedding to my first wife, taking an enormous punt on capita has been the worst decision of my life. It is so clearly turning around at the time when AI is empowering call centre businesses.

Someone made the really good comment that the stock market has very little to do with the value of a company. It is quite ridiculous that the sale of capita one is bringing in more than 12 p per share and here we are, struggling to stay at 17p.

I do appreciate you guys trying to make sense of it. As discussed months ago though I do think we are all guilty of egging each other on and believing our own hype. Not sure what the answer to that is.

The agony is that this company is worth a lot more than the share price, so we are right, but we've got our timing wrong. You can't tell anything by the share price going up a few pence.

I watched the presentation and was very impressed that the leadership team are confident about acceleration progress towards 6-8% margin.

They have established good relationships with the new government from contacts made before the election and feel that the company can offer useful services to the public sector going forward especially through exploitation of genAI through its privileged partnerships.

A key point is that these relationships raise new barriers of entry to low-cost competitors.

I was most encouraged and anticipate Capita progressing from strength to strength.

Of course! :-)

I don't believe the shots at DJT were random and I don't believe that anyone could be down less than 50% on an investment in CPI.

Or has the whole world gone crazy????!

I lost 300,000 pounds hard cash spread betting this and am currently clawing back 36k. I'm still down 264 k. Count yourself very lucky indeed.

Surely a gold mine for capita?

Yes that's my thought, but I'm already 58.

For me the key fact is that they recruit ten thousand staff a year giving them plenty of opportunity to rejig the workforce without redundancy problems.

What was the key fact for everyone else?