Green & Smart Share Discussion Threads

[charterhouse3] 23/3/2007 10:51

so much for 10.30 am !!!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully only another 10 minutes to go.

CH3

[charterhouse3] 23/3/2007 10:08

Hi guys

Just received confirmation that results will be out at 10.30am

CH3

[simon gordon] 23/3/2007 09:59

Hi Cisk

I have spoken with GSH and they should be out by 11am.

[cisk] 23/3/2007 09:37

Does anyone know what's happened to the interims due today? Last year they came out around 7am, there's still no sign yet...

Cisk

[anupama] 22/3/2007 16:46

Milesy, Charterhouse3 and Courant - I agree with all your comments, thanks.

[courant] 22/3/2007 16:32

Anupama,
Patience!!! I'm happy to have the share price low for a little while -it allows me to top up at sensible levels!!! The price does not reflect on the underlying performance which has been and should be excellent. The real outer for GSH should be the sale of the Scarr-Hill holding, which should dramatically improve liquidity and, at a current mcap of 90m-odd bring in the instititions. It's only a matter of time before these get re-rated, IMO.

Courant

[charterhouse3] 22/3/2007 14:33

the shares are livening up ahead of the results tomorrow.
Last chance to buy at such attractive levels I suspect.
The results will be good. Any news of increased liquidity will have the shares over 500p IMO.

CH3

[milesy] 22/3/2007 13:48

A - suspect it's because of poor free float (which should improve this year according to mgmt)

[anupama] 22/3/2007 13:25

I recently bought into this company but I have to say that I am surprised and disappointed by the lack of interest in the shares. Hopefully the results on Friday will trigger some positive action.

[charterhouse3] 16/3/2007 14:29

Hello folks - just a quick note to say that the Company confirmed, via RNS yesterday, that the interim results will be announced next Friday, 23 March.

CH3

[theophilus] 08/3/2007 16:55

Done -- I hope.

Brilliant site especially when one learns how to navigate through the flexi-page. Very informative.

Cheers

Th.

[simon gordon] 08/3/2007 08:00

Beta site for GSH:



Theophilus, could you add it to the header?

Thank you

[gepetto] 06/3/2007 12:50

Hi Simon,
thanks for taking the time for such a reply. I tend to ignore macroeconomics for my share selections and time of entry as I see it as a mug's game. I merely meant that GSH's share price has given me a nice top- up opportunity and I can't see it going down from here. Even small buys seem to trigger a rise at the moment so I hope for more liquidity soon.

[simon gordon] 06/3/2007 11:27

Hi Gepetto,

I hope the jitters are over but I'm not sure.

Here is an excellent piece from the Telegraph which I think sums up the current predicament:

'After 17 years as the First Lord of world finance, Alan Greenspan must have known what he would unleash by mumbling his few words about a "possible" US recession this year.

It was a none too-subtle message to successor Ben Bernanke that the time had come to ditch ideology and slash interest rates before a grave policy error is committed. Indeed, it may already have been committed after 17 rate rises in two years.

Mr Greenspan's comments flashed across trading screens at a delicate moment, as markets were fretting over the collapse of the ABX index of low-grade mortgage securities following the bankruptcy of 27 sub-prime lenders in the US this year.

If they still had any doubts, the 7.8pc plunge in US durable goods orders in January settled the argument. World markets were not "priced" for this upset to the Goldilocks thesis.

The week before, risk appetite had reached record extremes as measured by the VIX index, or by the willingness of investors to accept spreads on junk bonds of a sliver over LIBOR, or by their kamikaze urge to squeeze the last few drops of profit out of the "carry trade" by pushing the Japanese yen to the lunatic zone of yen160 to the euro (it was 90 in 2001).

It took five trading sessions for the elastic to snap back. The yen rose 4pc against the euro, enough to do damage in a world where outstanding derivative contracts have reached $370 trillion - and which may or may not add up.

We'll find out soon where the cadavers lie in hedge fund land. Exuberant bourses from Sao Paolo to Istanbul and Bombay have had a 8pc haircut.

"We believe the 'great unwind' has now started," said the bears at Dresdner Kleinwort. They have been waiting a long time for this moment. "Extremely high levels of risk appetite have begun to shift. The 'markets-buoyed-by-ample-liquidity' arguments will now be shown to be the total and utter tosh they are," they said.

What to do? Batten down the hatches, buy bonds, and sell equities. The trend support lines for stock markets are about to break, said Dresdner.

David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said investors had woken from a trance. "The numbers coming out of the US are absolutely atrocious.

"The market has suddenly discovered that the emperor has no clothes and it's caused a whole reassessment of the macro-picture," he said.

This then is the "Greenspan Break", reminiscent of the "Babson Break", according to Brian Reading of Lombard Street Research.

Roger Babson was the stock guru who thundered on September 5 1929 that "sooner or later a crash is coming.

"Factories will shut down, men will be thrown out of work, the vicious circle will get in full swing and the result will be a serious business depression".

News was thin that day, so it made front page headlines in the New York press, though he had said such things before. By then, for no obvious reason, Wall Street was ready to listen.

The Dow began to bounce up and down violently in a spasm of volatility before diving on Black Tuesday, October 29 1929.

Mr Greenspan, by contrast, has not spoken of recession before. In November he was still assuring America that the housing hiccup would soon be over. His capitulation is a thunderclap.

The Maestro is not to everybody's taste. As wags put it, he is handy with a sand-iron from bunkers, but wild with the driver.

His great sin - deplored by grown-ups at the Bank for International Settlements - was to hold interest rates below equilibrium level, locking imbalances ever deeper into the system.

He did it in the 1990s, and again this decade, keeping US rates at 1pc until June 2004 when GDP was surging at 5pc. This policy, widely copied, is poisonous.

Known as "inter-temporal misallocation", it feeds asset bubbles and steals prosperity from the future. In the end, the future arrives.

That said, Mr Greenspan has a sixth sense for impending trouble. The Fed minutes of November 2000 reveal how he talked his colleagues out of a rate rise, warning them that a crunch was coming - whatever the Fed staff model purported to say.

Specifically, he said the Fed model was useless at turning points because it was "linear". Recessions, of course, are "non-linear".

Within two months, the Fed had to rush through an emergency cut of 0.5pc.

The slump had begun. "Everything was pointing up and, all of a sudden, everything started pointing down," said Governor Edward Gramlich afterwards. Up to a point, Mr Gramlich.

We can be pretty sure that if Mr Greenspan were at the Fed today he would again be telling the board to ignore the model.

Instead we have Professor Bernanke, wedded to his Princeton theories, pushing the doctrine of "inflation targeting" just as central banks across the world are turning against it as a perilous misadventure. One has to ask whether the Bernanke Fed is emerging as the monetary counterpart of the neo-cons in foreign policy.

True to form, Mr Bernanke told Congress last week that nothing was changing in the economic outlook, and that "there's a reasonable possibility that we'll see some strengthening of the economy some time during the middle of the year."

He had better be right. If not, if he holds rates at 5.25pc deep into a bust, he may face calls for his impeachment.'

[gepetto] 06/3/2007 11:21

Market jitters seem to be over, so I bought a few more (534) here today.

[simon gordon] 28/2/2007 15:55

GSH Awards:

Green Apple Awards 2006
Environmental Best Practice
Bronze Winner

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2006
Regional Winner

BIFM Awards 2006
Customer Focus
Finalist

Building Services Awards 2006
International Achievement
Innovation of the Year
Health & Safety Initative
Finalists

RICS Regional Awards 2006
Sustainability

BIFM Investors in FM Excellence Awards 2005
Communications & Marketing
Winner

Institute of Maintenance and Building Management (IMBM) 2005
Energyplus
Winner

BIFM Investors in FM Excellence Awards 2004
Innovation category
Highly Commended

Institute of Maintenance and Building Management (IMBM) 2004
energyplus
Winner

Building Services Awards 2004
Building Services Client in partnership with HBOS
Training Award
Innovation of the Year – ICT
Finalists

National Business Awards 2004
Outstanding People Development
Business of the Year
Highly Commended

H & V News Awards 2004
Apprentice of the Year – Steven Wallis
Winner

H & V News Awards 2003
Apprentice of the Year – Mark Falconer
Winner

Liveable City Awards 2003
Outstanding Contribution to Air Quality Improvement
Highly Commended

Sentinel Business Award 2003 and 2004
Technology - Winner
Investor in People - Finalist

[simon gordon] 28/2/2007 15:52

Listing prospectus:

[simon gordon] 27/2/2007 17:16

Hi Alun

I would refer you to page 31 of the recent annual report:

'...we should see an increased free float making the Group a more attractive investment opportunity.'

I think they will make an acqusition and place shares with institutions to pay for the deal.

Mr Scarr-Hall could also sell shares to the City.

Either way the Board have stated that liquidity will improve in 2007.

[simon gordon] 27/2/2007 17:03

9,000 sold not one buy. Market makers didn't want any more sellers.

Seems to be a panic in the market today. Some pundits expect a 10% correction to the leading indices. Well GSH have had 10% in one day - same as China!

If this turns out to be a crash or sharp correction it could be an opportunity to pick up GSH in the £3.50 to £4.00 range.

[alun rm] 27/2/2007 17:00

I am watching this share with interest, but so far the liquidity issue has scared me off! It strikes me that you can move this baby up 50p by buying a few thousand and down 50p by selling a few thousand. I like the look of the business model, but I really would like to see more shares come to the market before investing.

Anyone got any idea if they are planning to improve the liquidity?

[charterhouse3] 27/2/2007 16:22

OUCH !!!!!!!!

That hurt.

Down 45p but on volume of only 9000 shares.

Ridiculous.

[charterhouse3] 23/2/2007 09:15

A date for the diary :

the Company just emailed me to confirm the date for the interim results will be Friday, March 30.

CH3

[simon gordon] 22/2/2007 19:24

From Property Week - 22/02/07:

'CBI's Lambert warns on climate change

Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, today warned the property industry it must help occupiers address issues of climate change now or face a catastrophic reduction in the efficiency of UK businesses in the future.

Speaking at to delegates at the Investment Property Databank/CBI Property in Business conference this morning, Lambert told occupiers they risked cutting global GDP by as much 20% if they delayed tackling the problem of sustainability and carbon emissions – a situation he described as 'a catastrophe of an almost unimaginable scale.'

He said: 'The RICS suggests that businesses waste around £18bn every year through inefficient management of premises. So the challenge remains for property management to continue to improve in order to help UK businesses compete. It needn't come down to a choice between economic growth and environmental protection. Tackling climate change really does make business sense.'

Lambert continued his passionate speech by arguing that the climate change agenda could not be divorced from property – a fact which puts even more pressure on the industry to respond quickly and effectively.

'Property and energy use are inseparable,' he said. 'The fact is that around half of all carbon dioxide emissions are from the built environment – with commercial property alone responsible for 17% of all energy use in the UK. Commercial properties are much more varied in type than houses – think of a refrigerated warehouse in the East Midlands and the Gherkin. But that's not a reason for inaction. But let's be sure we've stretched every sinew to show what the market can do and to put forward constructive solutions to one of the greatest challenges of our time.'

He announced the launch of the CBI's Climate Change Task Force – a special network of chairmen and chief executives from some of the UK's biggest companies to produce recommendations for action to tackle the problem by business, the Government and the CBI itself.'