Card Factory Share Discussion Threads

[apad] 26/1/2015 19:05

Prefer organoc growth to buying shops from hedge funds.
apad

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[dasv] 22/1/2015 13:44

Canaccord downgrade only because share price target already hit.

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LONDON (ShareCast) - Card Factory (LSE: CARD.L - news) 's share price dropped on Thursday morning despite an in-line trading statement from the greeting cards and gifts retailer, with broker Canaccord Geunity weighing on the stock after downgrading its recommendation to 'hold'. Canaccord said that even though trading over Christmas was "solid", the shares have performed well since Card Factory's flotation last May and have risen by 15% since November alone.

As such, the stock has recently surpassed the broker's 270p target price - shares closed at 275.7p on Wednesday - prompting it to remove its 'buy' recommendation.

Nevertheless, analysts Mark Photiades and David Jeary remained optimistic about the company's future growth after an 8.1% rise in sales in the 11 months to 31 December and 1.8% growth on a like-for-like basis.

They said they didn't expect any major changes to consensus estimates for the financial year ending January 2015, with pre-tax profit still expected to be around £73m.

"Card Factory floated in May'14 and offers a combination of several years of further space expansion of its eponymous fascia alongside multi-channel growth from the nascent Getting Personal business.

"This growth potential, coupled with a strong and established vertically integrated business model and a market-leading low-price 'value' orientated offer in a growing and still fragmented greetings card market, are key drivers of the investment case."

[dasv] 22/1/2015 13:12

Invesco adds a million shares. Taking them up to 41m shares.

[neilgbudd] 22/1/2015 11:12

Canaccord Genuity downgrade from BUY to HOLD which is probably not helping matters.

[dasv] 22/1/2015 08:40

net debt reduction ahead of expectations good.

Revenue on track for 2014 estimates. If it can deliver 8% growth again, then PE falls to 14.5 with debt reducing. Not a mega cheap stock but a growth stock with legs imo.

[neilgbudd] 22/1/2015 08:13

Update looks strong to me. But CARD doesn't usually respond well on updates for some reason and its case of sell on the news with this one. Glad I sold in the 280's. Will re-buy on the weakness.

[m.t.glass] 22/1/2015 07:44

Update looks OK. But enough to justify the high PE ratio?

[dasv] 22/1/2015 07:38

update looks fine to me.

[johnthespacer] 19/1/2015 15:34

Trading update on the 22nd of Jan this Thursday

[neilgbudd] 19/1/2015 13:40

Depends; if your long term then over time will push past £3 imo. Otherwise shorter term, will come back to 240-260p I think. Only because its had such a strong uninterrupted run and needs a breather to consolidate again. Trading update soon due I believe. But it never really moves much on them.

[johnthespacer] 19/1/2015 13:15

Any thoughts on this one? is it time to take profits?

[saturn5] 20/12/2014 15:58

Opening more shops
Printing their own cards
Probably more inventive ideas to come.

Being tipped to rise again soon

Should be worth a punt

[montyhedge] 19/12/2014 18:03

Victim of their own success, heard some people get the cards, one person on the till, queue to long, so they leave the cards and walk out.Get more staff.

[johnthespacer] 19/12/2014 11:35

going nicely isnt it!

[mike740] 19/12/2014 10:46

19 Dec 2014 Card Factory Plc... CARD Investec Buy 269.10 271.60 270.00 310.00 Reiterates

SP TARGET 310p

[mike740] 12/12/2014 15:39

CARD... Card Factory, last results very solid hitting new highs. Could be a good xmas for this one. Tills are roaring ive just heard on twitter.

Here we are.........

Traders Own ‏@TradersOwn 14 minutes ago
@-------- A member of staff went into the #CardFactory last weekend. Massive queue of people. Waited 10 mins. The tills are ringing!

[dasv] 12/12/2014 11:43

Invesco I think.

11.74%

[trewsa] 10/12/2014 21:35

Own up,whoever bought 40 million.

[dasv] 12/11/2014 07:46

encouraging interim statement



revenue growth rate of 8% continues

[pamelajane] 04/11/2014 10:08

Artemis increase holding by around 1.4m x

[gohilster] 12/10/2014 08:47

Emailed CARD and trading update provisionally w/c 10 November.

[battlebus2] 30/9/2014 19:06

Possibly, should rise to around 245/250.

[gohilster] 30/9/2014 18:45

Lovely rise and hold today. Delayed reaction to the results...?

[battlebus2] 30/9/2014 11:19

Only riser in a sea of reds for me today and new highs, if it holds :))