Currys Share Discussion Threads

[v11slr] 28/10/2014 15:33

It's over 60p now in old money.

[investoree] 28/10/2014 09:34

undervaluedassets from memory I believe that the pre DC. dixons/carphone merger the shares were trading at around £12 some years ago when they sold off part of Freeserve (they should have sold the lot before the tech bubble burst). I will check my records later today and confirm/deny my belief.

Edit from memory I think I purchased my first tranche for circa £2.60 in 1987 (crash time).

[septimus quaid] 28/10/2014 08:44

Things ticking up nicely, dividend resumption imminent?

[mikepompeyfan] 28/10/2014 08:38

Breakout :-)

[robo175] 27/10/2014 19:48

Considering how much the markets have dropped this has been rock solid.

[undervaluedassets] 27/10/2014 10:38

For former Dixons shareholders the current price is 58.75p. (for those that don't know - the formula to derive former Dixons price works like this:- Current DC price multiplied by 0.155)

I think considering the all time high was 280P for Dixons we still have a considerable way to go on the recovery story here.

much to look forward to.

[undervaluedassets] 27/10/2014 10:31

of interest to those here I hope:-

" Two months after U.K. appliance and electronics retailer Dixons Retail PLC and the mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse Group merged to become Dixons Carphone PLC, the newly united company says its marriage is off to a strong start.

“The business is in robust good shape,” says group CEO Sebastian James. “We’ve been supported by a good market environment.”

The company says it has been particularly successful on the e-commerce front when it comes to merging the two brands into one.

“When we analyze the flow from Dixons into Carphone, 70% of those visitors had never been on that web site before,” says group strategy director Andrew Lawley. “We’ve had a flow of 165,000 unique visitors to and through each other’s web sites, which is excellent.”

Dixons is No. 13 on Internet Retailer’s 2014 Europe 500, having done €1.474 billion in web sales in 2013, according to Internet Retailer's Top500Guide.com, an increase of 14.3% from €1.289 billion in 2012. Carphone is No. 27, having done an estimated €710 million in web sales in 2013, up 15.3% from €615.8 million in 2012.

Group CEO Sebastian James says the company benefitted from back-to-school and the iPhone 6 launches, which both occurred within the company’s first few months.

“We are very happy with the way back to school went for us, we’re very happy with the way iPhone 6 is going for us,” he says. "

[mikepompeyfan] 25/10/2014 07:35

Full steam ahead.

Dixons Carphone has hired former Phones 4u COO Nick Fisher and chief marketing officer (CMO) Scott Hooton as consultants. Dixons Carphone told the Mobile Today that the two had been taken on as consultants to help transform the phones 4u concessions in Currys/PC World stores into Carphone Warehouse concessions. Dixons Carphone bought 159 Phones 4u store-in-stores. It plans for its Currys/PC World megastores to be housing 190 Carphone Warehouse store-in-stores by Chrismas and 380 by October 2015.

[mikepompeyfan] 24/10/2014 15:36

Revamped more informative, user friendly web site and advertising campaign starting.

[mikepompeyfan] 24/10/2014 12:01

Dixons Carphone plc ‏@DixonsCarphone 4h4 hours ago
As of today, we'll have over 150 Carphone Warehouse stores operating within @curryspcworld stores! #FullSteamAhead #Merger

[undervaluedassets] 24/10/2014 10:41

Institutions picking up more stock.

Directors buying more shares and those being granted them holding onto them.

All rather encouraging.

[anony mous] 24/10/2014 10:12

£4 here we come.

[mikepompeyfan] 24/10/2014 09:33

Feeling quietly confident here. Pressure on food prices and petrol means more money left to spend on electricals. A good Christmas is in prospect imo.

[undervaluedassets] 23/10/2014 15:55

Sell a whole heap of Apple products between them Currys and Carphone and yesterday's Apple results were stella

In fact those results have catapulted Apple to over $100 for first time ever.

I cannot see that news doing our profitability any harm; and more importantly should have major impact on DC sentiment here.

[anony mous] 23/10/2014 14:49

SP is back to the highest level for DC

[undervaluedassets] 23/10/2014 10:31

Read across from HOME I reckon lately

HOME have decided to up the concentration on Argos side of the business and scale back Homebase.

The more electricals based Argos proving more successful.

Electricals is where DC is at of course. Not to mention being the market leader in the UK.

[robo175] 22/10/2014 14:43

I'm still here waiting patiently for the rise above £4.00

[mikepompeyfan] 22/10/2014 08:29

Fridge's have high and low settings. Maybe they'll have cameras inside in the future so you can turn on the internal light and check the contents on your iphone while out shopping. What if your fridge or freezer could notify you if it malfunctions so you are warned and have time to empty it before the contents perish ? Just a few quickly thought up ideas ;-)

[ben nevis] 22/10/2014 07:53

"The firm will look to adapt to a new world where smartphones, tablets and rapid internet speeds will mean appliances such as washing machines and fridges are controlled by the touch of a mobile device...."


Is anyone wanting to turn on/off their fridge when on holiday ??

If food is there it needs to be on !!!

Control of house heating from a distance I understand, but FRIDGE ???

[anony mous] 21/10/2014 14:56

Wow. Nice intra rise.Is this a short squeeze ?

[manics] 17/10/2014 15:27

Blimey. I wonder if he's glad he largely stayed out of politics...

[hamila01] 16/10/2014 17:20

It's because it is Seb. He's good friends with Boris (and Cameron might have stayed at his holiday home) and has also been part of a government related committee (can't recall the subject).

[anony mous] 15/10/2014 21:32

Flip.Yes it does look like him.

[manics] 15/10/2014 19:52

Ha. Look what I found:



Now tell me that's not Seb James bottom left, fourth pic down?