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Petrol Station business Aapplegreen has seen its gross profit jump 33pc year on year to 109m euro in the six months to 30 June.

Revenue at the group increased 27pc to 854.9m euro, the group said in a trading update. On a constant currency basis revenue increased 30% year on year.

Meanwhile AEBITDA increased by 17% to 19.4m.

During the six month period the group saw like for like growth of 3.5% in non fuel gross profit.

Capital expenditure during the period was 30.3m euro, while the groups net debt position declined slightly to 9.1m at June 30 from 10.2 m at 31 December 2017.

Applegreen opened 14 new food outlets in the six month period to bring its total to 274 outlets.

“ our financial performance for the first six months of 2018 has beeen robust notwithstanding the difficult trading conditions caused by the exceptional weather in March , especially in our Irish business said Bob Etchingham CEO

In August Applegreen announcedthat it is to acquire a majority stake in UK motorway services area operator Welcome Break for 362m euro.

Welcome Break portfolio consists of 24 motorway service areas, two trunk road service areas as well as 29 hotels across 29 hotels across 35 locations in the UK.

Had to spend 235p this morning to pick up another 3k worth.

Can't buy any with AJ Bell either.
This is set to move north and thankfully I'm up to my neck already.

I can sell @ 2.30 and I can't get a quote to buy 2000 shares. That's on the HL site.

???? That is the question !!!!

This goes ex dividend tomorrow with a pay-out date of October 4th. So one could sell yesterday and still get the dividend which is tempting although at a poor price I'm not sure. I topped up today so I get a bigger payout on October 4th and could sell tomorrow and still get the pay-out which I will not be doing as these are undervalued.

NO public holiday in Ireland though so you have something to watch or is RYA on the Irish Stock Exchange ?

Trading in apple green shares was suspended on August 2nd 2018 They are in the midst of a reverse takeover of the UK group Welcome Break. A huge development but not without its risks. they will trade again some time in September. For the full story google the words applegreen and Irish times and read the pieces published on August 2nd and 4th. I look forward to seeing what value this will add.

That’s why it’s fallen today.

but in general we have a lot of people taking their money off the table with summer holidays approaching. No point in following as it only exaggerates the trend.

Anyone still shorting this must have lost their marbles. Do they not take a look in every now and then to check what's happening. Its been on the up and up for almost three months now. If that were my fund manager I would be rightly ****ed off.

The ADVFN BB seems to think its all related to the US rise in copper to $3.25. Not anything to do with the courtcase.

Yes, this has been on the rise for seven weeks now so how can there still be such a huge percentage of shorters. Is this information accurate at all ? I doubt it. That figure has been static for ages which is very hard to credit.

Pity I didn't have much cash but I did get in at 121p which was marginally better than Britishbulls, That's a first for me.

Pity I didn't have much cash but I did get in at 121p which was marginally better than Britishbulls, That's a first for me.

They're frequently wrong but it might embolden some to part with a few shares in the hope of picking them up cheaper after a n interval.

for 1603 shares.

I see KEFI went up by 22% today.

This had been doing very well for a few months and has sort of fallen off the cliff a bit of late . Does anyone know what's happening ?

What would be the point of getting rid of Alberto? Wouldn't they put another puppet in his place and the new guy would be unlikely to have the same skill or acumen.