Ian Pollard – Winter Of Discontent Impacts Begbies’ Business.

Begbies Traynor BEG claims that a winter of discontent has impacted business with 481,000 now in significant financial distress.  Those  in ‘critical’ financial distress increased by 25% year on year as the year came to a slow end and stand at  2,183. Real estate was the hardest hit sector in quarter 4 with a 9% […]

Buy Staffline #STAF says VectorVest. Strong track record, plus the stock continues to offer plenty of capital and dividend growth potential.

Established in 1986, Staffline (STAF.L) is now the UK’s market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has two divisions namely Recruitment and PeoplePlus. Staffline Recruitment is the UK’s leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,500 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, […]

Ian Pollard – Sainsbury’s Investment in Price Cuts Pays Off

Sainsbury J SBRY First quarter sales for the 16 weeks to the 30th June saw a continuation of the improving volume trend which became evident in the second half of last year. Like for like retail sales grew by 0.2% excluding fuel and grocery sales rose by 0.5% helped by online grocery growth of 7.3% […]

Ian Pollard – Staffline Still On Target For Bursting The Billion

Staffline STAF remains on target for its Burst The Billion plan. A strong set of results for for the year to 31st December produced a 27.5% rise in statutory profit before tax. The final dividend is to be increaed by 2.6%. Market share has increased more than ever and net debt has more than halved […]

W. H. Smith “Strong Group Performance” as High Street Falls 4%

W.H. Smith SMWH claims a strong performance across the group for the 21 weeks to 21st January, presumably hoping that nobody will go as far as reading the actual figures which show that High Street revenue actually fell by 4% and only travel revenue with a 10% increase, saved the day enabling Smiths to show […]

Next Finds Horror On The High Street

Next NXT issues a stark warning about current profits and the level of both this years and next years sales. It failed to live up to its own expectations for 4th quarter sales in the face of what it describes as exceptional levels of uncertainty. Between the 1st November and 24th December sales fell by […]

Staffline (STAF) – A Year Of Transformational Growth

Staffline (STAF) is one of the UK’s largest work programme providers, with a history of strong growth. Its share price has more than quadrupled in three years, from 297p in February 2013 to its present 1,304p, having fallen back from its November peak of 1,614p. Growth in both the first and second halves of 2015 […]

Quoted Micro 19 October 2015

ISDX AIM-quoted Rare Earth Minerals (REM) has announced its intention to gain a secondary quotation on ISDX on around 28 October. Executive chairman David Lenigas says that the shares will continue to be traded on AIM. REM has increased its shareholding in ASX-listed European Metals Holdings Ltd, which owns the exploration rights to the Cinovec […]