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We might be testing £4 today at this rate. With slowing growth and no dividend what is there to invest in?
And call me a cynic, but isnt it odd how share prices often collapse way before any announcement is made, these were nearly £8 not long ago!!
Well there goes the consistent profit increases, and to think a few weeks ago a couple of posters were suggesting £8. This share gambling lark is a joke. Think ill stick to putting my cash under the mattress, or spending it!!
What happened? The share price is going through the floor? Did people stop drinking costa coffee?
Personally as a recent investor, i'm happy for them keep ploughing the money into growth until they run out of options.
When tbe shares trade on such a high p/e people are expecting more though.
Oh dear. Doesnt look like the market liked it. It seemed ok to me.
Guess the drop today is due to the news of taking over more stores. Isnt this what we want though, expansion?
Is my screen wrong? Its showing 8% up. Anyone know why? Thanks.
Hi. Just come across this company after reading the Motley Fool article regarding Neil Woodfords article. As i'm looking for my next AIM purchase thought i'd take a look. Can't say i've found anything much which interests me though, whats the positives? Are pallets really that big business? it has hugely negative cashflows?
Does anyone know what all the intangibles that appear on the balance sheet are? Seems a big number to me?
No need to worry, trading update out. Looking good.
Hi. Just out of interest, who is this big company you mention that has varikus licences for shale gas? Thanks
I'm hoping to remain here too for a good while yet. One thing I have found interesting since I bought BDEV about a year ago is how completely inept brokers are with price predictions. Their forecasts have been hillarious, up, down, hold, down, up ....... all over the place. I'd love to get paid to make up forecasts like they do !!! .. luckily I ignored all their bad advice as i'd have sold a while ago had I taken any notice of it.
You have to hold them on th ex-dividend date which is normally a month or two before payment is actually made. The next barratt dividend for example is due to be paid on the 20th, its 4.8p per share and in order to get it you had to hold shares on the 23rd april (you would still be entitled to the dividend had you sold on 24 April. These dates can be found on the financial diary section of this site (see link above) on the companies website or various places on the web. Even
Hi. Thanks commonstock for ur explanation which clears things up. Ok onto the next thing, why woukd GVC want to do this BWins latest final results didnt look too good to me? They made a big loss last year?
Doesnt B.win have a market cap 3 times that of gvc? How can gvc afford it?
Revenue up AGAIN. This share is so boring, revenue just keep going on up in huge leaps :)
Must be wonderful for the folk who probably get paid loads to pluck random figures out of a hat and give silly recomendatikns. What a job and no skill required whatsoever.
Hi. ES335, aren't those figures before debt though?. Although maybe slimming down is the way to go, sell off transit or greyhound, pay down the debt further and hey presto. At the end of the day FGP bit off way more than they could chew with taking over laidlaw, and even with the rights issue which occured a couple of years ago now, the fact remains, they are still heavily indebted and could do with selling off one of these businesses AS PER THE ORIGINAL BLEEDIN PLAN. Didn't stagecoach go through similar years ago? I remember their share price hitting around 12 pence, talk of impending collapse etc ...... yet what I couldn't understand was it was a cash generative business, why not simply get rid of the crap and hey presto problem solved. Not so long afterwards I think they gave it away for a nominal £1 to Abbey National?? or did i make that up, it was a train leasing company causing the problems I think, and therein started a nice upwards rise in the share price. I'm out for the minute but will keep an eye on things. Not sure why the drop to be honest. Its forecast for a £20%+ rise in profits, which considering the oil price drop and the assumption they will pay less interest due to falling debt levels seems about right. I know they have lost franchises, but have any actually ended as yet, I don't think these will affect the next set of full year accounts?