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NICL Nichols Plc

1,020.00
-50.00 (-4.67%)
18 Mar 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Nichols Plc LSE:NICL London Ordinary Share GB0006389398 ORD 10P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -50.00 -4.67% 1,020.00 24,651 16:29:59
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
1,000.00 1,020.00 1,025.00 1,010.00 1,025.00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Btld & Can Soft Drinks,water 164.93M 11.64M 0.3190 31.97 372.09M
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
16:35:24 UT 77 1,020.00 GBX

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Date Time Title Posts
12/3/202411:24nichols break out-phew wot a scorcher!636
07/1/201319:29Is this about to be taken over?207
04/9/200417:39Anyone have views on Nichols?44
19/5/200410:35The Nichols(V) success thread9

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Nichols (NICL) Most Recent Trades

Trade Time Trade Price Trade Size Trade Value Trade Type
2024-03-18 16:35:241,020.0077785.40UT
2024-03-18 16:29:571,020.0013132.60AT
2024-03-18 16:29:401,010.0021212.10AT
2024-03-18 16:29:401,010.002862,888.60AT
2024-03-18 16:28:041,010.0014141.40AT

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Posted at 18/3/2024 08:20 by Nichols Daily Update
Nichols Plc is listed in the Btld & Can Soft Drinks,water sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker NICL. The last closing price for Nichols was 1,070p.
Nichols currently has 36,478,934 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Nichols is £372,085,127.
Nichols has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 31.97.
This morning NICL shares opened at 1,025p
Posted at 12/3/2024 11:24 by philanderer
HSBC raises Nichols price target to 1,350 (1,300) pence - 'buy'
Posted at 14/2/2024 10:01 by philanderer
Panmure starts Nichols with 'buy' - price target 1,260 pence
Posted at 06/2/2024 15:31 by philanderer
Just about everyone by the look of it.

964p - 998p and the 1 share AT 'buy' @ 998p signal has just appeared.

May as well dump mine before it disappears up it's own @rse. This has been a very disappointing holding.
Posted at 16/1/2024 16:57 by philanderer
Wicked drop today.

That's the trouble with NICL ad many small caps . The spread gets well messed about with.

1075.00 - 1115.00
Posted at 16/1/2024 08:08 by cwa1
* Nichols NICL.L : HSBC raises target price to 1300p from 1200p
Posted at 08/1/2024 15:26 by disneydonald
The key issue for the trading update to see if they update on write downs for OoH business. The Vimto packaged business is pretty bullet proof, and any six year could run it profitably. However, it seems current management have have got a grip of the OoH business after years of laissez faire management, and signalled that more write downs expected second half 2023, but benefits in 2024.

Other interesting issues to consider (although unlikely to be in trading update), are founders grandson resigned (he ran the OoH business), maybe disagreements on restructuring. Also, recovery of bonus's paid to management, as £4m write down taken last year as HMRC case settled in favour of HMRC. Will NICL really recover that amount from past and previous management ?

No trading updates (profit warnings) 2023 second half, so should meet market expectations for "adjusted" profits, which mean there is almost certainly "exceptionals" to be taken, hopefully minor and the last. Next year could be the start of a significant rerating.
Posted at 23/11/2023 12:35 by disneydonald
Interesting news re share holder sticking his head over the parapets with a 3.09% stake. Initial skunk works only reveals that his (and his wife) seem to be Hoteliers, and own (or at least control) the Y Talbot in Tregaron; very nice hotel.

I wonder if their shareholding came from James Nichol (Grandson of founder), who recently resigned from the business to pursue other interests. Maybe he also wanted to sell up. Getting ~3% of Nichols shares is not easy in the Market, so likely to have been via a corporate or family member.

Also noted that he resigned his Directorships from various Nichols subsidiaries aligned with the OoH business (the business unit that is currently being restructured), not before time in my opinion. A new Director of these business units took over, and she is Sarah Louise Caddy. Although she has not been named as his replacement as one of the family Non Execs.

Either way seems something interesting is afoot.
Posted at 05/10/2023 14:13 by disneydonald
I'm guessing that because Rathbones (not the bread people :)) and Investec have merged their asset management / Wealth Management businesses, and they released RNS declaring that Rathbones now holds ~ 6.4% in NICL. Since the RNS (25th September), there has been an increase in trading volumes and I am guessing that Rathbones are reducing their stake to below 5%, which would mean a sale of ~ 500,000 shares. Maybe that is causing a little indigestion.

Either way, at 936 (with very narrow spread) I decided to add some more, even though I am slightly wary about the potential for share price appreciation pending next set of results.

I assume that NICL CFO (Interim) will know if the above is the case, via NICL Brokers who would be able to determine if any selling pressure. I suppose that NICL could buy a few back for cancellation at these prices, or even tempt the Exec's to buy a few ?
Posted at 18/9/2023 09:00 by cfro
We know that both Coke and Pepsi dominate the carbonated drinks market but ive often wondered if Vimto could not be a serious contender and competitor to the giants given the right leadership and a good growth strategy.

Coke for instance has a market cap of some $250bn vrs NICL at under £400m..

There is quite a discrepancy there. Vimto is a great tasting drink i dont understand why it isnt more popular in the US for instance. Perhaps its just down to marketing? I dont know but management should seriously up their game here and work on trying to close that gap in the years ahead. Im sure they could do it.
Posted at 26/7/2023 09:06 by disneydonald
Well, we now we know the King had no clothes ... Now results segmented on business unit rather than product type we can see that the OoH business is barely profitable, and this is after the big write down last year. So, hopefully we can now move forward and focus on the packaged business (Both UK and International) driving forward with good gains not being diluted by OoH (see what I did there ).

Hard to see any stellar gains in the share price at the mo, with relatively flat earnings, dividend growth steady but nothing special forecast. They could always pay a special dividend from the cash pile if no "acquisitions" in the pipeline, although I worry about acquisitions given the past record and subsequent write downs in the OoH business.

Would be interested to know what the strategic position is re OoH; just don't lose money, clean it up and offload (if that's possible given the need to control and manage the Vimto brand), wind it down to minimum footprint offloading all non "Vimto" products, focus on expanding the royalty side of the OoH business as that would be asset light.
Nichols share price data is direct from the London Stock Exchange

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