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BGCG Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust Plc

225.00
-1.00 (-0.44%)
13 Dec 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust Plc LSE:BGCG London Ordinary Share GB0003656021 ORD 25P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -1.00 -0.44% 225.00 27,111 16:35:05
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
224.00 225.00 226.00 224.00 226.00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Trust,ex Ed,religious,charty -80.9M -83.18M -1.3413 -1.67 140.15M
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
16:35:05 UT 885 225.00 GBX

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Posted at 14/12/2024 08:20 by Baillie Gifford China Gr... Daily Update
Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust Plc is listed in the Trust,ex Ed,religious,charty sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker BGCG. The last closing price for Baillie Gifford China Gr... was 226p.
Baillie Gifford China Gr... currently has 62,012,982 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Baillie Gifford China Gr... is £138,909,080.
Baillie Gifford China Gr... has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of -1.67.
This morning BGCG shares opened at 226p
Posted at 17/11/2024 12:59 by ali47fish
has anyone seen the tender offer published recently- does anyon know how this works and is it worth to participate?





Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust PLC (BGCG)

Legal Entity Identifier 213800KOK5G3XYI7ZX18

Conditional Tender Offer of up to 100% Introduced

The Board of Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust plc (the "Company" or "BGCG") announces the introduction of a performance related tender offer (the "Conditional Tender Offer") following an internal review and after discussion with the Company's largest shareholders.

In the event that the Company's net asset value total return does not exceed the benchmark total return (MSCI China All Shares index in sterling terms) over the period beginning from the NAV announcement in relation to 29 November 2024 to the NAV announcement in relation to 30 November 2028, then the Conditional Tender Offer will be held as soon as practicable thereafter. The Board believes that a Conditional Tender Offer in December 2028 will allow the Company and Baillie Gifford & Co, its Manager, appropriate time to outperform against its benchmark and in the event it does not, to offer shareholders a liquidity event.

The Conditional Tender Offer, if implemented, will be for 100% of the issued share capital of the Company. The Conditional Tender Offer will be priced close to the prevailing net asset value at the time of repurchase (adjusted for the costs associated with the tender offer).

The Board has an active liquidity management policy, the primary purpose of which is to reduce discount volatility. Buying shares at a discount also results in an enhancement to the NAV per share. The introduction of the Conditional Tender Offer will not change the Board's current approach to discount management.

Chair Nick Pink said "The Board believes the introduction of the Conditional Tender Offer is to the benefit of all shareholders. Over 4 years shareholders will receive either outperformance relative to the benchmark or an opportunity to redeem 100% of their holding at close to NAV/share.

For investors in China equities, the Board believes the Company offers a differentiated growth strategy. The Board is committed to using all the benefits of the closed end company structure where they enhance shareholder value, measured using the Company's KPIs. The announcement of the Conditional Tender Offer therefore adds to the existing liquidity policy to buy-back shares, the use of prudent gearing, the ability to own private investments and competitive costs, principally via a tiered management fee. Together we believe these features distinguish BGCG from its peers".



For further information please contact:

William Simmonds, J.P. Morgan Cazenove Tel: 020 3493 8000

Naomi Cherry, Baillie Gifford & Co Tel: 0131 275 2000
Posted at 05/10/2024 09:11 by sutherlh
A long way from its peak of over 600 in the early 20s. I bought around 385 a couple of years ago when I thought it was unloved. Kept it however as speed of decline caught me out. Current plan plan is to get out if it gets anywhere near my purchase price depending on chart performance. Any thoughts? H
Posted at 14/4/2024 12:31 by vacendak
I have also watched the video, the one BG sent via email, with Sophie Earnshaw and Linda Lin talking to each other for a quarter of an hour and saying nothing.The Citywire article and its comments summarises the situation pretty well: BG has lost the plot and drinking its own Kool Aid. The "China will be big and open" mantra was all well and good when BGCG was all wild and at 20% premium, but it has been discredited from the moment the ChiCom began turning the screws.
The BG problem is that they are doing even worse than their benchmark and their peers. Not that losing "only" 35% (since Witan Pacific became BGCG) as per Fidelity China Special Situation (the less bad of the China only lot) would have done anybody any good.
Posted at 18/1/2024 09:15 by vacendak
BGCG used to be run by Witan before Baillie Gifford and was called Witan Pacific.
I was holding it for geographic diversification purpose but it was not doing great and indeed was barely matching its Asia inc. Japan benchmark.
Back then the board had been "asking questions" and after a while got fed up and decided to change the manager. Baillie Gifford proposed an all China move.

In all honesty, I did believe the move to be a good idea at the time and rejoiced when the share price shot up like mad (see my posts from a few years back). I still felt a bit guilty about putting my money in a country run by commies but the results were there.

Then it turned sour. My WPC/BGCG investment was going deep into the red, I exited at a loss and now I shamefully try to compensate for it by smirking at the slow but steady train wreck of BGCG.

I see no future investing in China as long as it is Communist. My only indirect holdings there are now through FCIT and UEM.

I have nothing against Baillie Gifford though and hold their USA IT. It is not doing great either but for totally different reasons and it should recover in the near future.
Posted at 19/7/2023 07:14 by vacendak
Taiwan apart, although I agree 100% on the risk, China already has a very nasty demographic problem. It will be old before it will be rich. It is condemned to be the second world economic power, never to be first.

So all the talks, which I used to believe, from BGCG about all those growth opportunities... well... the share price trajectory says it all.

Still ashamed to have put my money in a Communist regime in the first place. In a way I deserve losing some of it.
Posted at 11/11/2022 08:26 by vacendak
Be careful of the "closed mind" issue, about reading selective news that reinforce one's views. I had been telling myself "China is too big", "...in the future China... blah blah blah" when BGCG dropped from 600 down to 500. That it was just a correction at the time from the silly 30+% premium it used to be trading at... The ChiComs will drop the zero-COVID idiocy... etc.

Then I sold at 225p.

Lesson learned: If one of my ITs ever goes again to a silly premium (more than 5%) I must sell and ignore greed and momentum. Got burnt pretty bad on this one. :(
Posted at 08/6/2022 09:23 by vacendak
True, but I feel like it is 1936 and I am investing in Germany.
I bet the returns and the prospects for investment growth were great by then too.

My conscience was telling me to sell around 500p back in the early days of BGCG but my greed got the better of me.
Posted at 08/6/2022 08:35 by vacendak
I have to give it to the Communists.
They decide "Everything is fine, go back to work" and it just happens.

Still looking forward to exiting BGCG once it has recovered sufficiently though.
Posted at 08/4/2022 09:28 by vacendak
@JF
Agreed on Baillie Gifford, as for China, I am not so sure it has the same future as we believed it had about a year ago. Some are saying the last fever, when BGCG was rising fast, sounded a lot like Japan in the late 80s. Extravagance then decades of stagnation.

Still not selling now, it should bounce back to 450p after their bout of COVID. I mean the BGCG AR does make good points, sure they excuse thenselves a lot, but they still have sound arguments.

Staying on for at least the last divi they how me from the WPC days... I know this is a stupid thing to say. :)
Posted at 20/11/2020 18:24 by ali47fish
ivenever heard of an investment being shorted- dont knowhattomake of this- why doesnt the board take action to moderate the premium?


Trust Watch: ‘Eye-watering’ China Growth attracts short-seller; Peel Hunt bargains
By Gavin Lumsden 20 Nov, 2020 at 17:52
Metage shorts China Growth

This week in a break with tradition we start with the expensive table where there are several interesting stories.

Baillie Gifford China Growth (BGCG) remains a stock to watch - if not to buy - with its shares reverting to a 34% premium over net asset value, double what it was last week, a level that Peel Hunt analysts called ‘eye-watering’ and earned it a high 4.9 Z-score to put it at the top our list.

Data from the Financial Conduct Authority shows that Metage Capital, the multi-asset investor that has backed the board of Gabelli Value Plus (GVP) in its attempt to wind up against the opposition of its largest shareholder, has taken a short position in BGCG shares, hoping to profit if the share price bubble bursts.

According to the FCA, on 5 November Metage raised its bearish position in the trust from 0.8% to 1.15%. The bet against the share price has had little effect so far with the shares soaring to a 33% premium to NAV on 9 November. As I reported last week, this prompted analysts at JPMorgan Cazenove, the trust’s broker, to cut their recommendation from ‘overweight217; to ‘neutral’; and flag up Fidelity China Special Situations as a cheaper alternative. The shares - up over 55% in the past three months after Baillie Gifford took over what was formerly Witan Pacific - have been volatile this week dropping to an 11% premium, only to return to 34% at yesterday’s close. They have tumbled 7% today, underlining Baillie Gifford’s own discreet caution on its website that ‘shares bought at a high premium to net asset value can quickly lose substantial value if the premium is eroded.’

The spike in the share price comes as Baillie Gifford has promoted the trust’s relaunch to investors, including an online event this month with Citywire. Interestingly, the trust appears to have paused the issuance of new shares which might have fed investor demand and moderated the premium. It last issued shares a week ago despite having over 16m left in treasury to sell if it wished to. By yesterday the red-hot stock had posted a one week gain of 15% (see third side), although they have tumbled 7% today.
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