Beazley Share Discussion Threads

[royaloak] 26/2/2014 11:20

yupawiese2010

Many thanks.

[yupawiese2010] 26/2/2014 09:48

royaloak

Both dividends xd today, pay on the 28th March.

[royaloak] 26/2/2014 08:22

A bit confused by the price here. X D shown as today for interim, but 28th for special, assuming that is wrong and both XD today?

[aspers] 26/2/2014 08:16

Don't worry, in a week or so this will be back where it was yesterday, plus your 22p divi in the bag it's a win win win :-)

[v11slr] 26/2/2014 08:10

Ex-dividend today for 24p, I think MA have taken the divi off to give the opening price and ADVFN haven't.

[the juggler] 26/2/2014 08:04

Very confused this morning

Advfn shows a fall of 14p and munney am shows a rise of 9p??????

[v11slr] 14/2/2014 11:25

Cannacord Genuity reiterate as a 'buy' with a target price of 290p. That doesn't seem much ahead of their current price of 267.6p until you take into account the 22p dividend that's available in 12 days time.

[deadly] 06/2/2014 11:32

excellent results; huge dividend due in a few weeks and P/E still under 10.
It has always raised the divi by at least 5%.
Can't understand why it is still so cheap, but I'll be buying more.

[the juggler] 06/2/2014 08:04

That's a bit more like it! Let's hope it holds or climbs further during the day.

[glennborthwick] 06/2/2014 07:58

dont hold but stonking results

[the juggler] 01/2/2014 10:53

Thanks ganthorpe. Good to know.

[ganthorpe] 01/2/2014 08:30

Year end results due Thursday 6 Feb.
GAN

[ganthorpe] 29/12/2013 13:34

Did a bit of number crunching on BEZ based on Nov IMS and last year's figures.
The Underwriting cost ratio of say 86% is much better than 2012's 91% , but investment income is down by half(2% to 1%) and the £/$ exchange is weaker.Assuming tax % is similar and so are reserve releases, the after tax profit looks like about $250M against $216M. I reckon allowing for the current £/$ exchange EPS comes out at about 30P per share and P/E ratio of 9X.
This still looks like decent value even at the present record high.It should lead to another special divi with the year end figures in early February .
All this is making a number of assumptions and possible errors , but there it is.
GAN

[deadly] 20/12/2013 12:28

Many insurers doing well recently: AML, CSN, CGL, ESUR.

Don't know why, but they are/were cheap

[yf23_1] 20/12/2013 11:32

Very quiet on here considering.
Any particular reason for this recent surge ?

[v11slr] 10/12/2013 10:31

Just had a little top-up here. Nice steady upwards progression.

[the juggler] 27/11/2013 08:58

Breaking out?

[the juggler] 18/11/2013 21:12

Will do :-) thanks El x

[el chupacabra] 18/11/2013 21:01

its free for end of day data (fine for swing trading) get your self an account and i'll show you tomorrow. MA crossovers can be a great trend following strategy if mixed with good discipline and money management. Trouble is not all stocks dance to the same tune if you get me?

laters

[the juggler] 18/11/2013 20:56

Gosh that's a rather whizzy bit of software. I shall indeed be interested in how that works :-)

[el chupacabra] 18/11/2013 17:53

using teh 'Optimizer' function on PRT, is has crunched teh numbers and said teh best MA combo's would be a 19, 290 SMA for BEZ



If you like i can show you how to do this then you can use the most successful MA pairs tailored to the stock your interested in?

[el chupacabra] 18/11/2013 17:41

Sorry Jugger, computer says 'No' for the 50, 200 cross. Since 2005 its crossed 7 times and only 42% of them ended successfully :



do you say well, going forward this time will be different or look for a better combo of MA's that's more in tune with this stock?

[the juggler] 18/11/2013 16:43

Hi El, used the 50 & 200 SMA

[el chupacabra] 18/11/2013 10:10

i cant spend your munies for you jugs! its probably best not to take any advice from an anonymous avatar on a free BB anyway :)

i can tell you if your golden cross system has worked on BEZ in teh past tho, what MA numbers are you using?