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Pogo my predictions have been more right than wrong over the last 6 years. I urged caution before the results two years ago when the SP was 120. I bought back in at 56p. I said last summer that this would go to 60p before it hit 80p. Proven right but yes it is all guesswork. Impossible to know that the Dame would sell off a platform last month to fund share buyback.
I am happy to say 60p before this share hits 80p again. With the Dame there is little to drive the share price up. Too much risk associated with her. ITV is not a credible investment until we change the CEO. This is a gamblers share. Anyone who puts 90% in needs their family members to seek power of attorney.
Barking mad. The share price fell from last May. It then fell again in the autumn. Nothing suggests it will rise to £1 this year. A small glimmer of hope has come into play since the Britbox news. The Dame will continue as CEO and continue to do 1 announcement a year. The SP will fall back below 60p.
The Ukraine war is damaging to western economies. Too much money diverted to arms manufacturers who take their excessive profits. Then the Ukrainian generals skim their share. Georgia and Belarus have sacrificed democracy but avoided the carnage of war.
If you know the region. If you speak to Russians you will find out the truth. Putin will not last forever. Russians can see change coming down and friendlier relations with Europe and the USA. Just a matter of time. This is the last action of an increasingly aged Soviet generation who still live in the past. Ukrainian nationalism is ugly and will come back to bite the west and especially Ukraines neighbours.
FIghting for a Ukrainian regime that has enlisted millions. Refuses to let adult men leave the country. Executes spies and enemies without trial. Carries out human rights abuses. Has forever destroyed the economy and cities.
There is no freedom in a Ukraine run by the military and ultra nationalists with an actor as its public face. The condition of the Ukrainian people is far worse now than it would have been under a Putin imposed government.
Look at Georgia and Belarus. They enjoy a better quality of life than Ukrainians. They bite their tongue and endure pro Moscow leaders.
I think it is clear that Pogo has never had first hand experience of a war and watched people dying up close. I have. Pogo supports and wants war. I believe the West pushed Putin into a war that could have been avoided if guarantees had just been given about no further Nato expansion and no EU membership for Ukraine. 500,000 dead and injured. Ukrainian economy wrecked. Don't believe the propaganda. This is not a war for freedom.
And Pogo prattles on. Her prediction of 80p by end of February was a good indication as to how she plucks figures from the air. She backs losing causes in Ukraine and cannot see how she is misguided. Corrupt military establishment are skimming off money from western tax payers whilst Ukrainian and Russian boys die. She should be ashamed to be backing this unwinnable war.
Thank you Rylidan. Praise from one of my many detractors.
We have all seen these buoyant upswings under the Dame. They come along too infrequently and she then goes silent for months and investors get nervous and sell. I hope the sale of Britbox is followed by more aquisitions and sales. If you look at Banijay media they have been aggressively buying and selling studios and they now have revnues of 3.6 billion $.
https://www.c21media.net/news/live-events-help-boost-banijay-revenue-to-3-6bn-as-it-weathers-challenging-year/
It is a business that is increasingly selling to ITV and BBC and an area that ITV studios need to claw back.
Also a quick google search reveals nobody from Barnstaple died in Ukraine. Pogo is a bot pumping out false propaganda for Ukrainian nationalists. The same nationalists who butchered Jews and Polish people during WWII when they sided with the invading German forces against the Soviet Union. Traitors to their people.
I choose not to back either side. 500,000 dead and injured is too great a price for any cause. I do not support the starvation of Palestinians despite the war crimes of Hamas.
Anyway an interesting fact. If you put a Pogo post into Google translate and select "gibberish" it then translates into English and makes perfect sense.
70p is a good price? I think we have seen that this can fall back to 60p and for the last two years the share price has fallen after the results and ex divi day. Nothing much happens at ITV from March through to September and confidence drops in those quiet months.
Sorry for my absence. Did I miss much? Not got around to watching analysts presentation. Sounds like I do not need to. More waffle and spin from the Clueless Entitled One. Results look much the same. ITV celebrating only 4% growth in studios when it could be 20-30% under the right management.
Sold my shares aquired at 66 yesterday for 68p. Looking to exit this now as the Dame is not someone I can invest in and she looks set to stay. Only bought back here last autumn on the idea that she may move on and the compnay might realise its full potential.
Happy International Womens Day. I am out shopping in Cardiff with the young Russian Doctor
6 years of failure and most shareholders seem in favour of selling off all parts of ITV. Breaking it up is better than letting the current idiots continue.
Fork! Simon Pitts is unveiled as new CEO of Global Media.
Looks like we are keeping the Clueless Entitled One. Scrap my prediection of 66. 49p from COB tomorrow.
Nice idea assembling a boad coalition bit it would not actually go to a vote in Parliament? Competition and Markets authority would decide. 33 Panel members selected by the Department for Business for 8 years.
You know between now and January she will do sweet F A. Like a President in that interim period between a new president being elected and sworn in.
She will party and host jollies for everyone in show business. She will lie in a deck chair at the cricket all summer. Lords hospitality suites will be block booked by ITV for all games.
Close 64p (The Dame is going).
Open tomorrow of 66p (everyone tunes in to watch Dame's resignation speech). "I have been an absolute disaster for ITV. I quit. I will continue for another 9 months despite being an utter f wit and collect another 2.5 million".
Winnie wants optimism only. So I have champagne on ice for International womens day tomorrow to celebrate the Dame's achievements and her recognition that she needs to make way for someone more capable from January. Simon Pitts who worked closely to Crozier hopefully heralds a new era at ITV of growth and soaring profits.
Stockmarket loves the announcement that Simon has a new role from January. Long live the King,
Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne and Kate Middleton's obscure uncle appeal to young audiences.... Got to laugh. Channel 5 binned the format once they realised they had run out of interesting celebrities.
Someone is getting rich out of Big Blunder but it sure as hell is not ITV.
Greggs have successfully identified which areas of their business work and found how to connect with their audience! ITV are still pedalling the old iced buns and retro products and are closing stores and championing retenchment as their income dwindles.
All it takes is one good CEO. A proper Scottish Business graduate rather than the phony Scottish/Irish Dame.
Poker the digital revenue for the 6 months through to end of June was 218 million. Well below the 750 annual target that the Dame set for 2026. The daft bint is still spending on tired old formats like Celebrity Big brother but that money going to studios is not generating revenue. She is destroying ITV profit.
How long will it take for the penny to drop with you? The Dame is selling a lie. She cannot generate revenue through digital platform and advertising revenue. She has wrongly directed 100s of millions in extra spend to her chums in studios but that will fail to generate profit and returns to shareholders. We would have been better off purchasing more studios. She is an amateur and that is how the FYR results will be read by the City on Thursday.
Carolyn and her cronies out!