Crawshaw Share Discussion Threads

[abergele] 23/3/2017 09:41

Opto,good morning to you,
confidence seen here again,,all buys bar the first trade it seems to me,
the trades at 16.59.and a smidge lower after the 16.65p buys are a ? to me,
but believe them as buys, so bodes well for the day once more..gla

[playful] 23/3/2017 08:21

Was due for a £600 million IPO not too long ago



Sad news for the employees. It would have ultimately been the growth in online competition that fatally wounded them, but that's not going to happen here.

[skinny] 23/3/2017 08:01

It is rather - I misread it initially and thought it was CRAW and not the private company - heyho.

[rimmy2000] 23/3/2017 07:59

Skinny. So what. ? This is as good as irrelevant isn't it?

[castleford tiger] 23/3/2017 07:34

I agree with Shakkaa but will the price bounce?

Its still not fancied by me

tiger

[mcmather] 22/3/2017 23:21

Re margins and the 'margin investment' - management spout some rollocks at times - the difference was just 1.3% (gross) for the 5 weeks to 1 Jan between the 2016 figures against 2017:

"...this improvement in both sales and customer number momentum has required a moderate level of margin investment, with gross margins in the like-for-like stores at 43.6% H2 2017 to date (versus 44.9% H2 2016 to date)".

The factory stores seem to be bobbing along very well and the high street stores that I have visited are all showing improvement numbers wise; things appear to have been generally decent since the start of December 2016. I reckon the improvement of the high street stores could be of some relevance / importance here, not just in terms of overall revenue, but with the company said to keep wastage down by utilising the meat not sold in the food to go range.

[optomistic] 22/3/2017 21:21

Evening Abergele, the annual bloods shows OK only yesterday. I put it down to a good diet of Crawshaws products ☺ I've been in these a while now...very costly experience :-(
But if the company continues as projected and we get to 200 stores it could turn out well in the end.
John

[shakkaa] 22/3/2017 20:25

Me thinks Aprils figures will be woeful, heaven knows where the share price will be

[tadders2] 22/3/2017 20:20

The last 6m of their trading will show a profit imo.

[abergele] 22/3/2017 20:02

Hello again Opto,
yes a while since we were together in a share it seems now,
I hope you are well??,
I think I am? haaaa,haaa,one never knows these days when it's so hard to get to see a doctor about ones health,annual blood tests seem ok..so we must be safe,,,I hope.
I have no boat on the canal anymore,so never get to Chirk nowadays.

I have been watching these (CRAW) for a while in dismay for lth's,who have suffered a lot it seems,almost like EME was to me,but hey that's our life as we like it.and dipped my toes in as I believe the bottom has been reached...
Best wishes to you,..David

[castleford tiger] 22/3/2017 18:18

So April for year end Jan 17 you expect a profit.

[tadders2] 22/3/2017 17:26

When they publish their next numbers.

[castleford tiger] 22/3/2017 17:00

tadders

thanks for that
When do you expect the company to show a net profit?

Tiger

[tadders2] 22/3/2017 16:23

Decent volume.

[ch1rp] 22/3/2017 15:53

Might get back in myself....for old times sake!

[chrisis33] 22/3/2017 15:23

Bought a small number for old times sake... no idea whether they're good value but will await the next trading update / results

[optomistic] 22/3/2017 14:29

Hi Abergele, haven't seen you for a while. Hope you are well and the fresh air of North Wales doing you good :-)

[runwaypaul] 22/3/2017 14:16

maybe maybe not....

[playful] 22/3/2017 13:03

I agree with tadders it is a good risk/reward but the destruction of shareholder value at the hands of our current CEO will effectively see us sit on the naughty step for a long time.

[runwaypaul] 22/3/2017 12:59

im in for a few gl

[abergele] 22/3/2017 11:56

Over the last 6 trading days,icl.todays blues,,,,
CRAW has 180k more sells than buys.!outstanding
and yet we rise today,
my thoughts are a buyer who will show an increase in holdings sooner than later perhaps,
has the bottom been seen now,and it's upwards as per brokers remarks.imho..gla

[castleford tiger] 22/3/2017 10:21

tadders........... Buyers........Price firming but can you see value here?

Tiger

[tadders2] 22/3/2017 09:45

Starting to attract buyers.

[playful] 21/3/2017 20:03

You could be forgiven for thinking we run a supermarket comparison service today on this board.

I notice John Crawshaw is busy rolling out new stores and considering his probable budget it doesn't look too bad (see his twitter for the photo). I am thinking the annual payroll for his whole business is what we pay our CEO so that puts things in perspective.

We were mitigating the currency problems and buying from South America but not any more....



You always can be sure whenever you buy from our Pocklington shop it's good true Yorkshire meat.