Centrica Share Discussion Threads

[susiebe] 23/10/2017 12:38

Looks like it wants to go higher.Energy Bill to be shelved as per Independant report post above imo

[portside1] 23/10/2017 08:56

IGNORE all the down players on this share they are a very good buy a gift under 220p

[portside1] 23/10/2017 08:55

SCRIP share price LEVEL 74.10P

[nortic 007] 22/10/2017 22:44

I've just watched the last of the Louis Theroux series on BBC2. If anyone here says that Mr Trump has a say in how are country is run, they need sectioning . America is one f'd up country .Maybe Mr Trump should look a bit closer to home before he cast aspersions about the UK . I've been to Washington and that's a city plagued with crime.

[biglosses] 22/10/2017 21:32

colder spell forecast from next weekend

[jpjohn1] 22/10/2017 19:06

Interesting mroalan, hopefully it will knock the share price back up where it belongs :)

[dr biotech] 22/10/2017 11:52

I can't really see how it's going to work. What's the price of gas goes up or down suddenly? Those who budget for their supplies are going to get caught out. Not saying the system is perfect, but it's hard to see how interference will make it better.

[diku] 21/10/2017 22:33

Did I hear next Thursday it will be 22C...mild weather not helping..

[dr biotech] 21/10/2017 17:55

Portside. Learn to write English properly. Your efforts are a disgrace to the language.

Then tell me what trump has done to stop 30000 gun deaths a year.

And try to tell the truth once in a while. You are the most dishonest poster on these boards, if I bring up say 5 stone dead lies will you promise to shut up forever?

[mervin4] 21/10/2017 15:27

I would be concerned about utilities under a labout government. Nationalisation is on the agenda again. so short term hold only.

[andyj] 21/10/2017 08:36

I really can't understand why the Left are clearly so furious about rising hate crime, which is often name calling, but calmly dismissive of people who actively seek to murder children with bombs.It doesn't make any sense at all to me, but I'm glad I left the UK many years ago.

[jpjohn1] 20/10/2017 16:41

At least it finished up today chaps. - 1.5p on the week. Most shares are sluggish a week or so after xdiv. Near records lows, it certainly looks a good buy at this price. Just have to wait and see and hopefully a good week next week. Have a good weekend whatever your doing

[portside1] 20/10/2017 13:36

and the biggest rip off mps getting paid along with house of lords for doing arm to the uk sleeping and getting paid

[justiceforthemany] 20/10/2017 13:11

Review of 2016 results show operating profit of £1.5Bn. UK Home £800M; UK Business + Ireland £100M; North America £315M; Exploration+Production £190M; Energy Marketing, Trading, Power generation £240M. So well diversified - at worse a 10% fall in EPS and that's before taking account 1500 job losses already announced for 2017.

[cbr60000] 20/10/2017 13:03

For a very long time to come, everyone is still going to need Gas & Elec & can you really see a situation where any Govt would really have or want the distracting task of running a company or lots of companies whilst trying to Govern....NahCome on, think longer term !

[warranty] 20/10/2017 11:50

Private companies survive and prosper only where there is real and true competition. Effectively, if you aren't good enough you go belly up. However much the Government try to tell us there is competition in Utilities, there isn't. Also, these secondary power suppliers can cut costs due to low staff numbers yet have no responsibility for maintaining the infrastructure or providing services creating a totally unfair market. Personally I think the Utilities market is stuffed and taking it back under Public ownership might be the best thing. Governments are now under such pressure to interfere on consumers behalf that it's going to be almost impossible to make a profit and certainly not reward shareholders. Unfortunately the Tories are more and more capitulating to the bleeding heart Labour and Liberals instead of growing some balls, promoting capitalism and stop interfering in what have become Private companies.

[renixus1] 20/10/2017 10:52

Whether we like it or not energy is one of those life basics and government is under pressure to ensure it's affordable to all. In an ideal world they would work in partnership with the industry not against it but profits should only come within the context of the service being good value. The scenario that appears to be developing is for the consumer service to be run as a zombie enterprise as this is the only way it can generate any sort of return when investors get a bad deal. This is bad news for everyone and may ultimately result in nationalisation and further demise. The part of the business that's not being sent on this unfortunate path may flourish but it's early days yet and is probably the key driver of an investment case coupled with some sort of zombie like return if management can do good job. The politicians will be distracted by Brexit so have kicked this one into the long grass with a bill that more or less boiled down to a statement that they want caps but with a better functioning industry and offering no help to investors, so a bad business deal that apears to have nothing to do with making britian better.