Venture Life Group VLG – Trading Update July 20th 2020

Alan Green talks to Venture Life Group (VLG) CEO Jerry Randall about today’s trading update. Jerry provides an overview of the VLG offering, and then discusses the financial and commercial highlights in today’s statement. Looking forward Jerry covers VLG’s strong financial position, and how non-dilutive funding will be used for further acquisitions, some of which […]

Venture Life Group (AIM: VLG) – Alan Green talks to CEO Jerry Randall

Alan Green talks Jerry Randall, CEO of Venture Life Group (AIM: VLG). Jerry provides an overview of the company operating structure and strategy, and then covers today’s trading statement, going into detail on the very strong trading that will see the company ‘comfortably exceed market expectations’ for the year. Jerry covers the group’s commercial relationships […]

Ian Pollard – National Express Gearing Up For A Strong Christmas

National Express NEX has continued to see a good trading performance across all its divisions in October and November. In both the US and Spain early Christmas trading has been strong and advanced sales are higher then last year. Two small acqisitions have been completed, one in he states with 204 buses and the second […]

Galliford Try Blames Caution On Impact Of Politicians !!

Galliford Try GFRD When the best that a company can find to say about its annual results is that they show a strong underlying performance, then you know that something went wrong. Otherwise it would be claiming a strong financial performance, and that  is something which Galliford can not claim. Profit before tax for the […]

Weak Pound Is Not A Crutch For Weak Management

Experian EXPN produced revenue growth of 6% in the quarter to the 30th June. On an organic basis the growth was 4% and for business to business on an organic basis it was a sturdy 7%. But Experian is yet another company  producing appalling figures for the UK which suffers more and more from the […]

Flybe Full of Grumbles

Flybe FLYB The airline industry is in for a rough time if Flybe’s grumbles are anything to go by. On the other hand reading todays update for the quarter to the end of March does read a bit like a management clutching at straws. It claims to have suffered from airline overcapacity, coupled with weak […]

Cello Is a Bowed String Instrument And Not A Fiddle

Alliance Pharma APH has more than doubled revenue and pre tax profits in the 6 months to the 30th June and is increasing the interim dividend by by 10%. Revenue rose by 104% including sales of ex Sinclair products whilst profit before tax rose by 113% and basic earnings per share by 25%. The share […]