Member Info for WimbledonTom

Yes rub it in Contrarian. I am in BP heavily and way down on my purchase price. I thought it would be a safe option but ITV has faired better over the last 12 months. The BP buyout and merger with Shell has been going for 20 years. The UAE bid.... Same nonsense as with ITV. The BP forum has nobody backing the Board. Nearly all the voices on there are calling for them all to go. Less delusional people there. Just investors who are fed up at management who fail to achieve good value.

AGM at BP on Thursday. Some of the big holders might create waves. The kind of thing that never happens at an ITV AGM where the cronies all get their obscene pay awards approved for doing nothing.

So stupid. A troll.

Yet I am the only one posting about buybacks. I am posting about the real difficulty in getting a UAE backed merger over the line. I discuss the failings of management with Schofield. I discuss the high salaries, unearned bonuses and over populated Board with too many ex Easyjet staff holding the top positions. I discuss the lack of a boost to ITV from ITVX as promised at it launch.

ITV is directionless. Being poorly led but a large contingent of holders would rather not hear that. They just want to keep on pretending that this company is being run well.

On other LSE forums people are openly scathing of the Board and CEO's. ITV forum you all just line up and bend over for more punishment from the crooks running the show.

£2 to 70p. You should all be outraged by the arrogance of senior management.

Greggs outperforms ITV. Higher valuation, higher profits and their woman CEO takes only 1 million in remuneration.

Sausage rolls are a better business than TV in this world where kids are online watching videos.

I would invest in Greggs before ITV.

You are Polish. Just masquerading as Ukrainian..... So really all the anti Russian hatred you spilled on to this website was uneccessary. Tut tut Pogo. All future jokes will have to be about how beautiful Polish women are and how ugly the men are.

Do not sell too fast. Share price is starting to lift with US open. Might get back above 350

That 7k in shares he would have been better off donating to the Ukrainian war effort. It is less of a lost cause than ITV and the billionaire Zelensky is only marginally less corrupt than Carolyn McCall.

The problem with Pogo's lies are that he brags and therefore leaves an audit trail everytime he buys more shares.

11 July 2024, Pogo wrote.

"Now let's think together about the face our troll has. I'll burst out laughing soon.

(My 7k shares at 83.03 with tax and fees loking not bad after one day from purchase. Sorry, but I am always be happy whem I know that I was right and properly feeling the market)."

You missed out the one key thing which will impact ITV profits in May and long into the future.

The increase in employers NI. It will wipe millions from the overall profit and make the dividend less sustainable.

Pogo yet again being dishonest and trying to only present a positive spin.

ITV will struggle for years with declining revenues and much bigger costs.

Wise investors will give this a wide berth.

Sorrey wrote "I cannot understand".

Yep that sums him up.

Thank you for your article on Polish media Pogo. So the sllers wanted a higher price than the buyers were prepared to pay. I think that is the scenario with ITV studios. Carolyn has dangled the studios out there over many years but nobody likes either the price or the commitment to fund ITV pension, debt and remain impartial.

Lost cause selling the studios. Better if Dimwit McCall focussed on growing revenue as a means to life the share price but the revenue has been falling for a decade now as viewers drift away.

Terrible share. Any potential investors are best advised to look elsewhere.

At last Pogo the resident troll has decided to engage with me .

Pogo the share that you bought at 82p in the summer. That you recommended that others follow your lead. How are they doing?

Pogo the ITV bid that you have been ramping for months. Where is it?

Pogo the buybacks that you told us the Dame would renew for this financial year. Where are they?

Finally the Ukraine war. Are you still positive that Ukraine can win or were you duped by Zelensky in much the same way you were duped by McCall?

From what I can tell OMalley being a real ITV holder is similar to my friends who are in bad marriages.

They know the woman is no good, abusive and stealing their time and energy but they stick with it out of fear of what disruption it would bring down if they leave.

Best advice I can give anyone is ditch McCall and her many cronies and go get a better investment elsewhere where the BoD are held accountable and do not cover up failure and child grooming with spin and lies.

Good luck to all the Real Holders in coming to the realisation that you are in a toxic marriage with this current Board.

Solley and Pogo. A couple of wrong uns if ever I saw any.

Being a Real share holder with ITV is worse than having the plague. All new investors should give this a wide berth.

A culture of lying and spin by management has seen this lose 60% of its value since they took over. Corrupt cronies with no industry experience who came with the phony Dame/CEO from Easyjet. All too busy lining their pockets.

Buybacks have ended. The false merger stories will be quashed at the AGM in May.

Please do not listen to the fools Solley, Pogo and Winnie. This share stinks

Solley's heirs will hopefully make better use of his wealth. Right now it is losing value year on year.

Sewage overflow looks to be spilling out again.

Pogo refuses to addres his own mistake when he said UK government will not intervene in private sector.

Going after Russia with tough economic and political measures was tried with Biden. It failed. Russian economy is still able to finance war.

The price of 120 was where ITV was at before the Dame messed up with ITVX. Her mistake. Her CFO and other Board members whould have counselled her against it. They failed. Ultimately they should all have walked.

Takeover of ITV remains off the cards because of politics. You cannot just sell off such an influential media outlet to the highest bidder and to be truthful it remains unattractive to many non UK and non European buyers.

Ignore the Pogo conspiracy theories. ITV shares are correctly valued and there is minimal growth here until the Dame and her Cronies sling their hooks.

Yes we have posters in our midst who want to ban some of us for speaking up. Already had some posts removed from here today. The usual quality inspector is firing off complaints

Global stock markets are doing well. ITV is just riding that. I would be amazed if this returns to 80p before the Dame resigns.

A different breed of Director at the BBC? They show loyalty to their staff and to the company? They buy shares in the company that rewards them. Complete opposite to the Dame and her cronies who take millions and never buy ITV shares.

If the Directos are not buying then any small investors looking at ITV for the first time should exercise caution before buying here. There are many dishonest posters who will spin you lies about a buyout from UAE, from Apple and from Liberty.

There is a small band of posters here who are prepared to expose the lies despite repeated calls to have us banned and being subject to the worst abuse and slurs.

Still no answer from Pogo about how he was so wrong about UK governments not intervening in private corporations.... He will be back with another bed time story soon.

Wow there is a director who buys ITV shares!!!!!

Okay that figures her background is BBC and she is not one of the corrupt EZJ cronies. She actually cares for the business rather than just seeking to cash in and line her own pockets.

Is Solley whining again whilst providing nothing of merit to the debate on here?

10+ years of nothing from Solley and "his daughter in America"

What a pleasant surprise. The anxiety on the markets seems to be easing. Can ITV retrace all its recent losses and claw its way back to 80p?

No buybacks. No merger. Incompetent and corrupt Board.