Reed Health Share Discussion Threads

[biomax] 28/2/2005 08:16

or dear, this is a dog, check out DSY, could quadruple

[schober] 28/2/2005 08:14

bad news again!! marked down to 48.5p


"Reed Health, a provider of staffing services in the Health, Social Care and
Education sectors, is providing an update on trading ahead of its interim
results for the period ended 31 December 2004, which will be announced on
Tuesday 22 March 2005.

As a consequence of continuing difficult trading conditions in a number of the
Group's operations it is anticipated that the results for the year ending 30
June 2005 will be significantly below current market expectations. A further
update will be provided at the time the interim results are announced."

rather a bald statement compared to tjhe last profits warning

[empirestate] 23/2/2005 15:34

getting silly now, i did phone the co but they said they haven't decided on a results date

[empirestate] 23/2/2005 12:15

blinkin eck, these market makers are really taking the michael

[empirestate] 23/2/2005 08:48

blimey couple of punters takin a few pence out of yesterdays rise, never mind

[empirestate] 22/2/2005 11:38

up we go L2 2/2

[empirestate] 21/2/2005 17:34

i do expect some interest in the coming week or so and i reckon that these should move quite easily considering there are a small number of market makers and the nms is not that big. heres hoping.

[empirestate] 21/2/2005 14:57

L2 2/2 KBC up on the bid

[empirestate] 21/2/2005 10:07

these are cheap, would have liked to have seen some indication as to when the interims are, as last year they we this week. net profit should be around 30/40% better than last year and the p/e for the current year looks to be about 5

[jangaman] 13/2/2005 17:56

Cheap and unloved at current levels. If a trading statement does come out and is on target then I can see these at over £1.00

It appears as though Reed suffered from one off IT integration costs last years and had to defer a lot of income to this year. Turnover was down as well and there is mroe competition out there but these are trading at way below what they should be in my opinion.

[jhan66] 10/2/2005 19:27

don't follow Mujaahid2. Do you mean forecast to reach 126?

interim results in 2 weeks. wonder if we'll see a trading update in 1 week like last year?

[mujahid2] 10/2/2005 16:45

End of year reed is touching 126p , independent advisor.

[schober] 27/10/2004 09:35

any significance in this?

Reed Health Group announces that Lord Tom Sawyer, a Non-Executive Director of
the Company, has informed the Board that he does not intend to seek re-election
at the Company's Annual General Meeting, to be held on 25 November 2004. He will
therefore stand down from the Board following the Annual General Meeting.

The Board propose to appoint Derek Beal as a Non-Executive Director in place of
Lord Tom Sawyer. Therefore Derek Beal has offered himself for election at the
Annual General Meeting.

Derek Beal is a Chartered Accountant and has spent the last 15 years of his
career in recruitment. He serves as a Director of Reed Personnel Services plc
and therefore cannot be considered an independent Non-Executive Director. A
schedule of his other directorships is attached...........................

[ok,yah] 10/10/2004 16:47

Forecasts
Year Ending EPS P/E PEG EPS Growth Dividend Dividend Yield
30-06-2005 9.00p 6.06 0.09 +66.67% 2.60p 4.95%

[ok,yah] 07/10/2004 11:36

Back in this am - bullish statement and great dividend at this price. Should make 4m - 6m profit this year. Worth about £1.00 on fundamentals

[ang5] 07/10/2004 08:24

May be buy at 49P ?, because divided still pay 2.35P.
next year p/e about 11-13.

[salpara111] 05/10/2004 17:25

Interesting that Fidelity in its various different guises has picked up an additional 344,500 shares in the last 6 weeks or so.
I am still not in but with the current market cap it would seem that this is now very vulnerable to being taken out either by another competitor or by going private.
Hmm, what to do!

[pylon] 29/9/2004 23:01

This is being primed for a takeover by Pertemps.

How many shares do they currently hold?

What percentage?

...all IMHO, of course.

[happyjoe] 25/9/2004 20:30

Rumour is current management want to keep the company. It's the shareholders they want to go! Company going private (as per reed holding) is on cards. Not good for investors normally.
IMHO..

[happyjoe] 20/9/2004 16:42

Friday pm announcement.. .Someone trying to keep this quiet.
£100m of turnover - under right hands could translate to £7.5m of profit.
£20m market cap.
No brainer if someone is big enough to force the current management to go.

[salpara111] 08/9/2004 10:06

In the city they always say, "sell at the first profits warning and look to buy again only after the third"
Well, we have now effectively had the third and I have been waiting for this moment.
The industry they operate in is pretty brutal but there is the real potential that at this level the company could be bought out.
I think that looking for £1 or more is somewhat unrealistic but a bid at around 75 pence would probably be enough to win majority accpetance.
The question is, do I take a punt in the expectation that there is a potential of a 40% upside.
Hmm

[schober] 07/9/2004 21:30

well here it is


is the worst over now? can we look forwards to a golden future?

[lom2] 07/9/2004 07:49

.nuff said 20p target

[lom2] 06/7/2004 11:31

what a dog