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Braemar Shipping Fights Back

Braemar Shipping BMS Half year figures to 31st august illustrate the savage decline which has hit the worldwide shipping market. A fall in revenue from £79.6m to £70.2m resulted in earnings per share falling from 13.3p to 0.4p and operating profit declining from £5.3m to £0.3m. Braemar however gives the definite impression that it is […]

Quoted Micro 24 October 2016

ISDX House broker Daniel Stewart expects energy efficiency and home automation products supplier Sandal (SAND) to move into profit this year. In the year to May 2016, Sandal made a loss of £268,000 on revenues of £3.3m and this year the profit is forecast to be £105,000. The Energenie energy efficiency and home control products […]

Cobham Now Fails to Meet Challenges

Cobham COB is yet another UK industrial giant which has proved incapable of meeting challenging trading conditions and the full year outcome will be behind management expectations, despite hopes of some improvement in quarter 4. The Chief Executive announced in August that he is stepping down and his replacement will  be in place by January. […]

British Companies Defeated Again By “Challenging Conditions”

Senior plc SNR Thank God for sterling must be the cry from the Senior boardroom as the collapsing pound saves the directors and management from further embarrassment with a  positive impact of £48m. The 9 month results are more than disappointing with group like for like revenue down 4%, the Flexonics division leading the way […]

Headwinds and Challenges Impact Reckitt Benckiser

Travis Perkins TPK The real truth about the state of the UK economy is beginning to bite. With like for like third quarter sales growth falling to 2% and an uncertain UK outlook, TPK is to close over 30 branches and 10 distribution and fabrication centres. In addition challenging market conditions led to Plumbing & […]

Burberry Fails To Benefit From Collapse In Sterling

Burberry BRBY claims that its ambitious revenue growth plans are on track with a 4% drop in revenue for the six months to the end of September. Presumably it can find some form of logic in that but if there is it certainly seems to have escaped the CEO who produces a wordy paragraph of […]

Quoted Micro 17 October 2016

ISDX St Mark Homes (SMAP) has launched a one-for-three open offer at 105p a share, which could raise £1.3m. The open offer price is at a large discount to NAV of 137p a share. St Mark has said that the main constraint on growth is access to capital. The money is earmarked for two new […]

Pearson Gives Notification of Exit & Other Nonsense

Pearson PSON has brought out a new literacy programme which management has obviously not read.  Had it done so they could have written their 9 month interim management statement in something like English instead of nonsense such as “some 3,600 Full Time Equivalent employees have been notified of exit.” – and this from a purveyor […]