Aj Bell Share Discussion Threads

[saltaire111] 09/10/2019 11:47

I assume the recent share price weakness reflects the forthcoming anniversary of the floatation and the relaxation of the key staff handcuffs on their equity awards. Likely to be a significant volume of shares available soon when they are released.

One would hope that the key employees recognise the longer term value more than others but the chance to secure a quick buck will be compelling.

Salty.

[umitw] 09/10/2019 08:57

Profits are shrinking gradually!

[someuwin] 24/9/2019 16:14

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[saltaire111] 28/8/2019 23:15

The chart looks very bullish now.

[sigod] 28/8/2019 14:27

Looks like this stock is back in demand. Another nice leg up today!

[saltaire111] 27/8/2019 13:04

Great to see. Encouraging.

Would love to see HL make a bid for AJB.

Salty

[steve73] 27/8/2019 12:26

Nice big 100k Buy there at c. 22p over the opening price... Reporting delayed by around 30 minutes to let the price catch up to try to disguise it as a Sell...

LOL.

And I've just noticed last week Director Bed & Isa trade at close to his ISA limit... Probably suggests this was around the lowest he's expecting..... IMHO.

[saltaire111] 08/8/2019 14:49

Claims about HL not being impacted as a result of Woodford crisis are premature in my view. This quarter’s results would not yet show the effects of the woodford problems. As we all know, it takes a lot of time to move money around and I’m sure we will see some damage in subsequent quarters.

Salty

[umitw] 08/8/2019 10:40

HL is up 8.4 % today!

[saltaire111] 07/8/2019 15:16

Lo - have you tried switching off and switching on again?

Salty ;)

[lomax99] 05/8/2019 16:27

The world wide wait..... - AJB's platform taking an inordinately long period of time to process a single sale transaction, and update my account balances. 10+ minutes and counting...........

[bullsvbears] 02/8/2019 16:41

Looking as though SVS will be providing less competition in future.

[davr0s] 02/8/2019 09:55

They are trades - they are always trades I'd buy and a sell. Nothing remotely unusual here today given general market weakness

[umitw] 02/8/2019 09:47

Large amount of transactions being placed, not sure if they are buys or sells!

[orchid5] 26/7/2019 01:21

Hope not - a significant attraction of AJB is the lack of baggage,lower overheads and hopefully higher dividends compared to the large companies that are suggested.

[supracat] 25/7/2019 21:49

Good thought and yes, quite possibly down the line. I do however think it may be a good target for one of the large life and pensions firms. Could see someone like Std life, total London, prudential etc making an approach.

[saltaire111] 25/7/2019 09:06

I wondered if AJB might end up a possible takeover target for HL?

There would be significant synergy savings and given the northern bias to AJB, it could be a good fit.

Salty.

[eh9] 25/7/2019 08:36

Benefits from hl pain

[its the oxman] 25/7/2019 08:28

Yes market likes it , all very positive , so should see further steady gains.

[sigod] 25/7/2019 08:10

Brilliant update. Hopefully we will see a nice rise in the share price today.

[sigod] 25/7/2019 08:10

Brilliant update. Hopefully we will see a nice rise in the share price today.

[saltaire111] 25/7/2019 07:20

AJ Bell PLC

25 July 2019

25 July 2019

AJ Bell plc

Q3 trading update

AJ Bell plc ("AJ Bell" or the "Company"), one of the UK's largest investment platforms, today issues a trading update in respect of the three months ended 30 June 2019.

Performance overview

Total customer numbers increased 5% in the quarter to 224,644, with total assets under administration ("AUA") breaking through the GBP50 billion mark to stand at GBP50.7 billion, an increase of 6% over the quarter and 13% over the past year. In comparison, the FTSE All-Share index increased by 2% over the quarter and fell by 3.5% over the year.

AJ Bell's growth during the period was driven by the platform business:


-- Platform customer numbers increased by 9,843 to 210,765, up 5% during the quarter
-- Platform AUA increased by 7% over the quarter to GBP43.4 billion
-- Platform AUA was boosted by a combination of underlying net inflows of GBP1.0 billion, defined benefit ("DB") pension transfers of GBP0.2 billion and favourable market movements of GBP1.6 billion

Andy Bell, Chief Executive Officer at AJ Bell, commented:

"Trading in the third quarter of our financial year remained strong across our advised and direct to consumer platform. We continue to focus on the needs of advisers and customers, making it as easy as possible for them to invest and this has resulted in assets under administration breaking through the GBP50 billion mark. People need to save more via their pensions and ISAs for the long term and our platform and investment solutions help them do that easily and cost effectively

[davr0s] 18/7/2019 18:44

They are not buys or sells but trades - there is always an opposing buyer/seller