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CMC has done really good in three years of trading, bit like PLUS look where they are now.

Average volume 374.34k
Shares outstanding 289.12m
Free float 107.99m
P/E (TTM) 20.68
Market cap 524.46m GBP
EPS (TTM) 0.0877 GBP

looks like usual 30% drop on the bad news

It will recovery very quickly when the markets turn

Average volume 550.51k
Shares outstanding 131.22m
Free float 118.89m
P/E (TTM) 23.18
Market cap 363.21m GBP
EPS (TTM) 0.1194 GBP

HSBC has sent home staff from one of the floors of its Canary Wharf offices.

Employees at the bank who research and write about companies have been told to work from home.

The story first appeared in Financial News.

A staff member who returned from travelling in China was diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus over the weekend.

The research floor is now being "deep cleaned" by a specialist professional services team.

Up to a fifth of the workforce may be off sick during the peak of a coronavirus epidemic in the UK, the government says in its latest plans.

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Fears Over Coronavirus Spread Grips Markets
Thu, 5th Mar 2020 12:06Alliance News
(Alliance News) - Stock prices slumped as Thursday's trading session in London progressed, with the spread of coronavirus once again front-of-mind as the UK's chief medical officer warned the country has moved to a 'delay' response phase.

The FTSE 100 index was down 117.34 points, or 1.7%, at 6,698.25 on Thursday. The mid-cap FTSE 250 index was down 338.23 points, also 1.7%, at 19,404.60 and the AIM All-Share index down 0.8% at 878.70.

The Cboe UK 100 index was down 1.6% at 11,343.38. The Cboe 250 was down 1.7% at 17,321.14 and the Cboe Small Companies down 0.4% at 11,587.55.

In mainland Europe, the CAC 40 in Paris and DAX 30 in Frankfurt were down 1.7% and 1.6%, respectively.

Spirent Communications (SPT) saw order intake rise by 13.2 per cent over the year to December, reaching $532m. Revenues were up by 5.6 per cent to $504m and pre-tax profits grew by 46.4 per cent to $89.6m. Underpinned by strong cash generation, management has lifted the dividend by a fifth. The group is “carefully managing the coronavirus situation”. Most of the supplies for its products and services are dual-sourced to protect against potential risk. So far, it has not assumed a financial impact to its outlook, and bosses expect steady profitable growth in 2020. The shares – which had fallen since mid-February – were up by about 4 per cent this morning. Buy.

Seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new estimate that's higher than the previous one of 250,000 to 500,000 deaths a year.
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Kier’s (KIE) revenue declined by 8 per cent to £1.8bn in the six months to 31 December. Challenging conditions in infrastructure services and construction saw sales drops 10 per cent and 7 per cent respectively. The group remains in an albeit narrowed statutory pre-tax loss of £41.2m weighed down by £71.1m in exceptional charges – this includes £48.8m in restructuring costs as the group implemented cost savings programmes and completed a strategic review. Excluding £188m in lease liabilities, net debt was up over a third year-on-year to £242m although average month-end net debt reduced by £27m to £395m. The disposal of Kier Living is still said to be “progressing” and it is expected to be sold within the next 12 months. Sell.

IC View
Fluctuating asset values and investor nerves aside, L&G looks better insulated from current market ructions than most financial services peers. Diversification, a leading dividend and undemanding valuation should provide support to the shares. Based upon adjusted earnings forecasts from Panmure Gordon, dividend coverage is also expected to improve to a multiple of 1.6 this year. Buy.

only two companies on my watch list doing excellent today KIE and SPT ,but the markets are looking not very good.

Politicians are blaming the Government lol, but no one is mentioning the rich owners of the company,

Spirent Communications, up 8.5%. The communications equipment firm reported a double-digit increase in annual profit and revenue, driven by higher product demand and a better win rate with US defence contractors, leading to a payout raise. For 2019, Spirent - which offers testing and analytics for networks and devices - posted a pretax profit of USD89.6 million, up 46% from USD61.2 million the year before. This was on revenue that grew by 13% to USD503.6 million from USD476.9 million. Spirent said its growth resulted from continued momentum in the group's high-speed ethernet sales particularly in China, and a higher win rate for Global Navigation Satellite System defence projects in the US. Spirent declared a final dividend of 3.45 cents per share, bringing the total payout to 5.39 cents, up 20% from 4.49 cents the year before. Looking ahead, Spirent said it is confident of achieving steady growth in 2020. Considering the coronavirus situation, it already has processes in place to protect staff, including working from home and restricted travel arrangements.

Aviva, up 2.2%. The insurer said it made good progress in 2019, though underwriting profitability has declined as expected. Aviva posted a statutory pretax profit of GBP3.93 billion for 2019, more than double the GBP1.65 billion reported a year prior. This was helped by a GBP40.58 billion investment income, after a GBP10.91 billion loss in 2018. Taking into account a change to accounting standards, Aviva's pretax profit rose 58% to GBP3.37 billion. Operating profit for the year was 6% higher at a record GBP3.18 billion, Aviva reported, beating market consensus of a figure of GBP3.10 billion. Aviva's return on equity improved to 14.3% from 12.%, while the Solvency II cover ratio was 206% from 204%. Aviva is paying a final dividend of 21.40p. This takes the 2019 total to 30.90p, 3% higher than the year before.

Capita, down 21%. The outsourcer said it is making "significant" progress in its transformation, though it has warned more spending is required than originally thought. In 2019, Capita said the reduction in revenue is now slowing, with second half revenue rising in four out of its six divisions year-on-year. The order book at the end of 2019 was GBP6.72 billion, down 5.4% on the same date a year prior. Capita's 2019 revenue declined by 6.1% to GBP3.68 billion, compared to a 7.3% yearly decline in 2018. Adjusted revenue, taking into account accounting changes, fell 4% to GBP3.65 billion. Capita swung to a pretax loss of GBP62.6 million in 2019, following a GBP272.6 million pretax profit in 2018. Adjusted, pretax profit fell 2% to GBP275.0 million. The loss came after Capita booked a more than GBP300 million gain on a disposal in 2018. Capita sees "modest organic growth" and sustainable free cash flow of GBP160 million in 2020, a figure it said was disappointing. "We retain concerns over the challenge of sustaining a growth profile as AI and robotic process outsourcing takes hold, with new competition likely continuing to emerge, and potentially undermining Capita's existing outsourcing contract book as contract values fall," said Shore Capital.

missed the second bite on the cherry lol even better now
235.50 GBX +23.00 (10.82%)
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You are probably right but i think everything is in the timing ,i have got it wrong yesterday and cost me , but i hope to get it right next time.

Spire Healthcare Swings To Annual Profit On Absence Of Impairments
Thu, 5th Mar 2020 10:53Alliance News
(Alliance News) - Spire Healthcare Group PLC on Thursday kept its dividend flat for 2019, as the private hospital operator swung to a profit on robust revenue growth and absence of exceptional costs.

Spire Healthcare, in which London and Johannesburg-listed Mediclinic International PLC holds a 30% interest, reported pretax profit of GBP9.6 million for 2019, compared to a loss of GBP5.6 million the year before.

Spire's profit performance was helped by absence of impairment charges. In 2018, the company recorded an impairment charge of GBP12.6 million relating to Spire Alexandra hospital, and a GBP3.6 million write off associated with the potential site development in Milton Keynes, Englan

Share price will recover one day ,looking back four years ago EVR share price was 60p and in four years reached £6,could happen again.

Type Ex-div date Payment date Amount
Interim * 05/03/2020 27/03/2020 40.00¢

FLYBE VIBE! (1018 GMT)
British regional airline Flybe's collapse raises coronavirus alarm bells further in a sector
threatened by rising travel restrictions.
As one trader rightly described: "the impacts from the coronavirus on travel demand proved
the last straw for the beleaguered airline (Flybe)."
With the scale of the damage to the industry estimated at up to $113 billion by IATA, this
ain't a temporary problem, it could snowball into a major issue.
The logical question here is wouldn't falling oil prices be a cushion? IATA says the big
drop in crude prices is likely to lessen the blow only by $28 billion in 2020.
"The turn of events as a result of COVID-19 is almost without precedent. In little over two
months, the industry's prospects in much of the world have taken a dramatic turn for the worse,"
The International Air Transport Association says.
It is increasingly clear with the price moves in airlines stocks: