New UK Investor Magazine Podcast: Pets at Home #PETS, Halfords # HFD and Harland & Wolff #HARL
Alan Green joins the Podcast to dive into three Uk equities and the key themes driving markets this week. We discuss: Pets at Home (LON:PETS) Halfords (LON:HFD) Harland & Wolff (LON:HARL) We start by looking at the FTSE 100 and whether we could see all time highs in London’s leading index – at the same […]
Ian Pollard – Halford #HFD management challenged by Retail environment
Halfords Group plc HFD found itself facing a challenging retail environment in the year to 30th. March which is Boardspeak for “we lost the plot a bit”. Like for like revenue rose by 2% and total revenue by 3.7%. but profit before tax fell by 5% and basic earnings per share wee down by 2.3% […]
Ian Pollard – easyJet benefits from collapse of competition & Ryanair disruption
easyJet plc EZJ produced a strong first quarter performance thanks in part at least to the collapse of a number its competitors such as Al Italia, Monarch and Air Berlin, which it has now bought and the disruption suffered by its main competitor Ryanair. On time performance rose by 2 percentage points to 81% despite […]
Ian Pollard – Sanderson Group – No Major Loss Of Confidence “Yet”
Sanderson Group SND claims strong trading momentum and further profitable growth in the year to the 30th September so despite only tiny rises in revenue and operating profit, it is increasing its final dividend by 11% as part of its progressive dividend policy. It is however carefully monitoring market conditions and then comes out with […]
Countrywide blames Brexit for woes
COUNTRYWIDE CWD blames the EU referendum in June for a fall in what it calls transactional activity in the quarter to the end of September. Not a fall in activity you will note, not a fall in transactions but a fall in transactional activity, whatever that is supposed to mean when you translate it into […]