Equiniti Share Discussion Threads

[mattboxy] 11/10/2018 15:49

I'm confused if this is leaking now why the hell are they down so much !! Anyone?

[vacendak] 11/10/2018 15:41

@tonysss13
Thanks.

Considering the markets are a bloodbath right now, EQN diving is easily explained for today at least. :(

[tonysss13] 11/10/2018 15:39

RARE ALERT: Equiniti said to ... - Part 2
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 2:57 pm
The mystery buyer circling Equiniti, the London-listed share registrar, is said to be a private equity firm.

According to sources claiming to be familiar with the matter the private equity firm interested in buying Equiniti is said to be GTCR, a Chicago-based buy-out outfit.

These sources claimed GTCR could be willing to pay between 315p and 325p a share for Equiniti.

Bankers at Goldman Sachs and Greenhill are said to be advising on the potential £1 billion plus Equiniti takeover deal, said these sources claiming to be familiar with the matter.

GTCR has a strong track record of investing in British financial companies. In 2014, GTCR bought Callcredit, a credit referencing agency, and then sold it to TransUnion for £1 billion earlier this year.

Equiniti was previously owned by a European private equity firm, Advent International, before it listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2015 at 165p.

[tonysss13] 11/10/2018 14:35

hxxps://www.betaville.co.uk/betaville-intelligence/uncooked-alert-equiniti-said-to/

RARE ALERT: Equiniti said to ...
Thursday, 20 September 2018, 4:15 pm
Equiniti, the London-listed share registrar, is at the centre of takeover speculation.

According to sources claiming to be familiar with the matter, a potential buyer is circling Equiniti and may have already indicated an interest in purchasing the business.

However, the identity of the potential buyer is unclear.

Equiniti used to be owned by private equity firm Advent International but floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2015 at 165p, the bottom end of its 165p to 200p range.

Readers should be aware that Equiniti's shares have risen over the last few weeks from 204p to around 260p amid talk a purchaser has set it sights on the company.

To be clear, some of this story is RARE! For readers unfamiliar with the RARE concept I will define it below.

RARE: Market gossip that has been tested with some of Betaville's usually well-informed sources. In fact, Betaville might have spent several days or weeks working on this story. However, the rumour hasn't been tested through all formal journalistic channels (public relations executives, bankers etc). The scuttlebutt might be wide of the mark but then again there may be something in it, so it's worth airing on Betaville.

[vacendak] 08/10/2018 14:32

Yes, I know, people paid through the nose then the Aston Martin share price tumbled, but this is not the fault of the registrar:


Considering the habit of Aston Martin to go bust, they may not be an Equiniti client for long; but still: Big fish (FTSE 250 even if they missed the FTSE 100), big name recognition, good for the image, thus good for business. :)

[vacendak] 05/10/2018 20:01

@Kamitora
Thanks for the heads-up.
As you stated, at some point they will merge their platforms.

They will have the choice between:
* Keeping things simple and go with the basic Shareview interface.
* Go for the fancier looking but flawed option you described.

Let me guess which it will be... :)

[ochs] 05/10/2018 17:53

How frustrating, 10 mins is never enough. The HL platform has default 15 mins log out time, but crucially allows you to amend it to 30, 45 or 60 if you prefer. Obvs I have mine set to 60 mins!

[kamitora] 05/10/2018 16:41

I'd happily go back to a low-bandwidth everything-on-one-page 1990s interface if it got the job done. 20 years later the site is slower (than ComDirect used to be), they can't fit everything on one page, their idea of security and trading functionality is to try to log you out every 10 minutes with a 60 second countdown warning so that you keep sending your login details across the Internet unnecessarily and so that you miss the right price unless you stay on it like a dead man's switch. It feels like a stockbroker how marketing people or people who've never traded imagine it.

I'm not familiar with Shareview, but consider yourself potentially forewarned if they start talking to you about platform upgrades (I presume it's only a matter of time before they hit you with Selftrade's redesigned platform).

[vacendak] 05/10/2018 14:00

I have a trading account and ISA with Equiniti/Shareview, which has a very Spartan interface, 1990s looking (no fancy pictures like this one from Selftrade), but it has always worked for me. I have just logged-in to check, it seems to be fine, put One share to buy and managed to get a live quote.

[kamitora] 05/10/2018 12:06

Something has gone wrong. Their increasing inability to run a fit-for-purpose share trading service.

[kamitora] 05/10/2018 12:02

Another day at Selftrade Equiniti:

[mattboxy] 03/10/2018 22:46

Looks like black rock have been selling last few days

[mattboxy] 03/10/2018 22:45

Sorry yes I've got you now. Must admit I enjoyed the Musk tweet as it screwed up a few shorters for a while. They don't like it up em! Same way they peddle misinformation and false stories to drive prices down. You live by the short you die by the short! Maybe? ;-)

[vacendak] 03/10/2018 21:17

Joking sorry. This was an Elon Musk reference.

As for EQN, it is somewhat leveraged, with a reducing but still significant debt - a parting goodbye from Private Equity. So it is possible that small changes in fortune, or perceived changes, get amplified.

After all the interest rates are on the way up, even so slightly, so servicing any significant amount of debt is not going to get easier.

At around 3% of my holdings, it is not major but not insignificant either, but I am planning on holding until I retire. Even then, I do not plan on it being the first holding to start the drawdown with either. So it can swing up and down for a while without my losing much sleep.

The business is sound, the customer base somewhat captive, it has everything to be "reassuringly boring" in the long term.

[mattboxy] 03/10/2018 16:16

Do you know something or just messing. I don't get how such a small sell has led to such a large fall. It's knocked nearly 10% off the mcap or 100 million for a sale of £40,000!!Is this Panmure trying something dodgyShares fell on the day he sold with the usual insider info brigade!

[vacendak] 02/10/2018 21:22

He should have tweeted "About to take Equiniti back to private at 420. Deal secured." prior to selling though. :)

[mattboxy] 02/10/2018 19:51

Not exactly a large sell does anyone know his remaining holding?

[mattboxy] 02/10/2018 19:50

Notification of transactions by Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (PDMRs) The Company has been notified that on 1 October 2018 the following PDMR sold ordinary shares of £0.001 each at the stated price per share as follows:PDMRNumber of sharesShare priceNature of TransactionRic Williams15,350258.16 penceSale of Shares

[toolsmoker] 02/10/2018 11:42

Director selling .tiiiiiiimmmmbeeeeerrrr

[seagullsslimjim] 28/9/2018 16:28

"does anyone hve a tp"

No i'm not an Indian !

[thefartingcommie] 27/9/2018 14:44

looking v nice here....does anyone hve a tp? tx

[vacendak] 27/9/2018 08:53

Some good news I believe:

[mattboxy] 18/9/2018 15:48

Does anyone smell a rat with Panmure ridiculous valuation causing a quick collapse and then this reversal?

[mattboxy] 18/9/2018 15:45

Higher than average volume and up again- anyone heard anything?

[mattboxy] 05/9/2018 11:45

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