Card Factory Share Discussion Threads

[darrin1471] 09/3/2024 15:35

With full employment the government can afford to push the NLW higher. Poor business models will go to the wall and allow space for more efficient businesses. Why should the government subsidise employers low wages by providing benefits to the low paid.
Higher wages for the lower paid should stimulate consumer spending. Higher UK service sector inflation will require the BoE to keep rates higher for longer. That will keep sterling strong and allow imported goods deflation which will offset high UK service sector inflation.

The higher NLW and business rates have been well flagged. CARD showed during high energy and paper pulp inflation that they can re-engineer the cards they manufacture to maintain overall margins. These added costs are for all retailers, so all retailers will need to boost margins to cover costs. Stronger sterling will reduce the price of imported goods for all retailers.

[premium beeks] 09/3/2024 13:38

Yes, how could they possibly put up wages for the lowest paid in society. It sucks.Good grief

[casholaa] 09/3/2024 13:17

Crooked government. They can't do this if they are trying to fight inflation as it pushes all sorts of costs up and onto consumers. Time to get rid of vat.

[eeza] 09/3/2024 09:26

Rates hike & wages

[reidy66] 07/3/2024 15:54

A break from 100p should she a 10p move . PJ

[premium beeks] 07/3/2024 13:31

Shoddy attempt at a quid yesterday - almost embarrassing!Looks like we'll have another crack today

[casholaa] 06/3/2024 14:41

Onwards and upwards.

[premium beeks] 06/3/2024 14:29

Looks like we poke through a quid today.

[premium beeks] 06/3/2024 12:17

Cheeky little rise.You might get there sooner rather than later.

[caveater] 06/3/2024 06:00

Yeah but when we going back to 116 (and more) ???

[premium beeks] 05/3/2024 17:15

On its way back to a quid now.

[makinbuks] 04/3/2024 18:08

“now the only national specialist chain selling quality cards”.

I trust we are calling our lawyers

[premium beeks] 01/3/2024 15:17

Moving up nicely!

[harry_david] 01/3/2024 09:58

Nice trades, do we have someone ready to take on Telious at last?

[eeza] 29/2/2024 19:43

MM's have a NMS. Trades above that size can be delayed 1hr, 2hrs, 4hrs, EOD, next day, 2 days and up to a week.

[casholaa] 29/2/2024 19:43

The debt isn't much of a problem. I'd want it to go though as you don't know what may come along and require financing in the future. They may want to buy moonswine or the other one if they get into difficulty....

[harry_david] 29/2/2024 18:22

darrin, one of my orders was on a very light trading day and I bought more than the total day's reported turnover. Most peculiar.

[yf23_1] 29/2/2024 17:45

Don't forget the falling debt, because high debt puts a lot of people off.

[ggrantsu] 29/2/2024 15:42

difficult to believe this isn't a prime target now in the PE world...has it all, current low leverage but very proven ability to leverage highly given the abundant cash generation, stable demand levels, attractive working capital cycle, no obvious tail risks / disruption risk (e.g. moonpig is not eating the lunch, putting it kindly).

awfully frustrating to see the share price hovering around here....but real value on offer and it isn't a difficult business to understand.

[premium beeks] 29/2/2024 15:38

Bought a chunk here today finally. Physical, not spreadbet.It's got to be a takeout target with the noise around other (less successful) UK companies.

[darrin1471] 29/2/2024 14:52

I don't use a stockbroker so I may be talking bull.
If you put in a buy order for 10,000 shares at 50p that order may not be filled in a single trade. It may be matched with multiple sells. 2653, 5986 and 1361 totaling 10,000. In total you have bought 10,000 and three sales total 10,000. The trades are likely to appear as sells.

[harry_david] 29/2/2024 13:59

elsa, the thing that gets me is the non reporting of trades. My last two purchases, of reasonable size, were not reported. When I asked my broker he passed it off, something about black trades, whatever that means. My trades were way under 1% but my broker had to search, which suggests you only need to deal in half a million to move the market, albeit more than I was.

[darrin1471] 29/2/2024 10:32

elsa7878 Thanks.

[elsa7878] 29/2/2024 10:22

Teleios sold 2 million (I mentioned this b4). Blackrock bought 4 million, Ex-CEO sold 775,000. Others all fairly constant but as I said only seen figures over 5 million shareholding. Retail brokers showing changes clearly as private investors trade.