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Appreciate comment on Vodafone CFO who bought 2.5million shares at 69.64p each today.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/united-utilities-group-plc-lon-050523456.html

With the SP on a slide, I thought to do a little research. Below are summary of comments from the Motley Fools.
Tue 28-3-17 (1004p) Kevin Godbold AVOID
Sun 16-9-18 (700p) Jack Tang Concerns about the safety of its div beyond 2020
Wed 26-9-18 (683p) Peter Stephens increasingly appealing income share to own over the coming years.
Wed 21-11-18 (775p) Kevin Godbold Big ‘if’
Thur 21-3-19 (872p) Highest SP in the last 52 weeks.
Tue 30-4-19 (828p) Peter Stephens* an investing opp over the long term
Tue 28-5-19 (770p) Paul Summers Not worth the risk
Sun 23-6-19 (801p) Peter Stephens* Worthwhile income investing stock for the long term.
Fri 12-7-19 (778p) Current
(*Peter Stephens owns UU shares)

The conclusion is that no one really knows any better.

I will normally agree but I'm not buying UU anymore. Strangely enough, the SP is going down on the day before ex-dividend.

One more point. SP goes up by around 1.4% to 836, at the time of writing today, this may simply be that the next ex-dividend date is 20-June.

Thank you for the comment. Appreciated!

I have never understood that the SP of UU.L and NG.L seem to be always going in the opposite direction to the other FTSE shares. Any suggestion is welcome.

What rights issue? Do you have more info? Thanks.

I received the 13.24p per UU share on 1-Feb promptly. You should check your scrip or with the broker. This hasn't made me happier as the SP will continue to fall, I bet.

I don't know why the idea of Corbyn being elected has been discussed in many posts. It's not likely Labour can be elected and, if so, it will not happen until June 2022, 5 years from 2017. So whether or not there will be a Labour Government cannot have any bearing on the future or current share price of UU. Let's focus on why the shares are disliked by the investors. Is UU management reducing the leaks? Is the water pure enough? Are the services provided meet the customer satisfactions? Etc. That's the only way and I don't think this is happening.

I don't know where the optimism comes from. Most analysts had a Buy or Hold recommendation, only Goldman Sachs has a neutral rating with 778 being the target on 26-Jan. The other target 'were' 870 or above in December. Still, which analyst do you trust? The SP has been falling steadily since September and I don't share the optimism.

It looks like another Carilion in the making. Useless management.

FFS! What happens to UU alongside with NG, is the market over-reacted or genuinely there are problems with these utility shares. Any thoughts to share are welcome.

Thanks.

Hi Mulder, Can you elaborate "P/E of 12 for a water utility is madness"? Thanks

...because some broker in HSBC decided that to change its rating from buy to hold BUT no explanation is ever given, as always. Call it Black Friday, if you want. May be the broker had a bad experience with his partner last night and the ripple effect affects all of us. https://www.brokerforecasts.com/news/article/articleId/5747522

Surprised to see that the share price has dropped so much today. Is it really just because it only made 1.26B profit instead of the forecast 1.29B, i.e 30M difference? Is this a bit over-reactive? There are too much news about the shares and there is no evidence of the share price will ever go back higher again. Sad but true.

Hi, thank you very much for the detailed explanation of subordinated debt. Great.

What is a SUbordinated Debt?

Hi my2penneth, what does "raising to super ten list" mean? I no longer believe any words from those brokers' comments. Their comments on their rating are often without justification or foundation . A case in point. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon declared that bitcoin is fraud, his investment arm helped clients invested into bitcoin related investment only a few days later. Another point is that JP Morgan (again) had been tipping VOD to reach 280p in Feb if "it rids itself of Indian millstone". As you know, VOD has been hovering between 200 and 232(highest) in the last 6 months. It may still reach 280p in 2 years time, if lucky. Do you still believe any words coming from these so called knowledge experts? It's like listening to the drug dealer to say, drug is good for you.