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Mr Meerkat's YE2021 competition was won by - Uncle_Doug
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/lse-alzheimers-fundraiser

Don't panic Asperger ... still accepting donations throughout the year and beyond ...
Looks like you just missed the final "r" off the webpage - makes all the difference (fundraiser not fundraise)

Bit of spike up late on. Dunno why?

If there was any hint of a serious bid this would be well above £3 by now.
Still, nice to see some shorts getting burned.

Lots of BUYS late on today. Something's happening.

Disagree. I have confidence of value at these prices. The P/E makes it cheap here. It's never going to smash the lights out but anything sub 17xx worth it for the dividend alone. The consumer demerger could spark more activity from interested parties. More upside than downside I reckon. Also a decent hedge against inflation. Added some more and will continue adding if it dips further.

... and two months later SGRO keeps on delivering. Results tomorrow?

10/2/22 Tom : "This is a temporary upturn. It will be back to £1 to £1.10 within days."
Got it wrong again Tom ?

Please keep commenting Tom. Every time you do the SP goes up.

Surely Alan Jope is the worst.

Just saw this:
SocGen raises Compass Group price target to 2,000 (1,750) pence - 'buy'

That's on top of recent upgrades from others, following trading update:
HSBC raises Compass Group price target to 1,970 (1,920) pence - 'buy'
Credit Suisse raises Compass group target to 2,100 (1,950) pence - 'outperform'

Nice jump lately. Results on 24th Feb.
Deutsche Bank raises WPP price target to 1,400 (1,000) pence - 'buy'

This market is crazy. Superb 12% recovery from ridiculous lows of 86.8p yesterday to 97.5p today. Well done all those who snapped up a bargain price. Seems every time the shorters try to drive this down, plenty of buyers come in to snap up the cheap shares in huge volumes.

Agree that a 3.3p div with the SP where it is right now is going to be very attractive in the coming weeks. You never know - we might even see a break out post results to 14x.

Pre-tax profits were down by more than a fifth last year to £5.4bn, while revenue grew 5% to £34.1bn. EPS down sharply.

Just not good enough.

With Smurfit Kappa's stunningly positive results today - makes SMDS even more of a bargain hanging around at 37x. Should be well above this by now. My industry contacts say passing on price increases has been no problem and SKG's results seem to back that up. When are the results ? Oh, March 10th - should be an interesting 4 weeks ahead. GLA

Good results today. Markets liked them. SP up 6%.

Storm in a teacup. Keep calm and carry on. Remember when RMG went from 580 to 124 to 580 in the space of 3 years? Not worried at all but happy to top up at these bargain prices. Fair value is well above these levels. Just takes a bit of patience and bottle.

All talk of windfall tax nonsense will die down in couple of days and SP will rise and the imminent buyback will help. Pre-pandemic SP was 500p+ and POO was $65 - $70. Record quarter and SP is languishing around 415p. Obviously SP got a long way to go.

You can now only check in for free between two and 24 hours before departure. Checking in less than 24 hours before a return flight when you're stuck in a foreign city or hotel may be tricky.
Whatever you do, don't leave checking in until you arrive at the airport. You'll pay £55 per person, per flight if you fail to do it online in advance – that's £220 for a family of four if you get it wrong, more than the cost of some flights.
Also bear in mind if you check in online but don't print out your boarding pass or download it to your smartphone, you'll be stung with a £20 per person fee for it to be reissued when you get to the airport.

So, just be careful - what looks like a cheap flight could end up with lots of other added costs - this is where the RYA Ts & Cs can catch you out. The so-called "free" bag on Ryanair is smaller than other airlines - about the size of a laptop bag, the seats have to be pre-booked (at a cost) if you want to sit together and (as above) even just checking in for free can be a bit of a nightmare once you're abroad.
Many other airlines (Wizz, Jet2, Vueling, Easyjet) don't have these inconveniences so it may be worthwhile paying a little more up front rather than paying all these extras on top of the original headline price that Ryanair offered you.

Best part of that Daily Mail article :
"Yet the shares do not reflect Mears' recent progress, prospects or resilience through tough economic times. At £2.05, the price should rise."

One hour into Monday's trading and volume traded is very high for MER. Mail has spurred a few buys I reckon. Enjoy the ride.