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FGT Finsbury Growth & Income Trust Plc

844.00
-1.00 (-0.12%)
Last Updated: 08:27:52
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Finsbury Growth & Income Trust Plc LSE:FGT London Ordinary Share GB0007816068 ORD 25P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -1.00 -0.12% 844.00 16,550 08:27:52
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
843.00 846.00 845.00 844.00 845.00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Unit Inv Tr, Closed-end Mgmt 143.78M 128.86M 0.7532 11.22 1.45B
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
08:39:49 O 42 844.95 GBX

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Posted at 07/10/2024 09:20 by Finsbury Growth & Income Daily Update
Finsbury Growth & Income Trust Plc is listed in the Unit Inv Tr, Closed-end Mgmt sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker FGT. The last closing price for Finsbury Growth & Income was 845p.
Finsbury Growth & Income currently has 171,083,657 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Finsbury Growth & Income is £1,445,656,902.
Finsbury Growth & Income has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 11.22.
This morning FGT shares opened at 845p
Posted at 08/8/2024 12:11 by essentialinvestor
SDR rapidly turning in to a terrible hold decision.

FGT may need to buy back extraordinary amounts of their own shares to avoid the % discount blowing out to double digits.
Posted at 31/7/2024 06:55 by spectoacc
PE for BRBY surely - would LMVH want to move downmarket?

DGE - agree, but only once there's a hint of a turn. Danger is the markets currently doing well are the ones that turn (down), and that Latin America is the canary. There's a crash coming in the US (IMO) so could be a little less toasting of share price gains.

(Finsbury - thanks.).

When the end of the ZIRP era/bond proxy era has been adjusted for, agree there'll be longs amongst the Train wreckage (...). But wonder if the down needs to be as extreme as the up first - we're not there yet. (In LTI terms, went to an 80%+ premium).

One thing's clear - if you're paid for doing next to nothing, as Train is, you really need to have made the right calls. Not a fan, but it's one thing T Smith does - isn't afraid to believe in a share, and then ditch it.
Posted at 30/7/2024 09:33 by spectoacc
Woe betide anything happen to the highly-rated RELX, LSEG, or EXPN. All good co's, but now well over a third of FGT, & all low-yielders (1.6%, 1.2%, 1.3%, acc HL).
Posted at 23/7/2024 21:26 by steve3sandal1
Couple of Board actions potentially supportive. Cancellation of Share Premium creating distributive reserves. And a GM for us to authorise another 15% buyback, they've done 10% since last AGM already. I also noted a Cap Gearing Trust presentation this week flagging FGT and Smithson as discount special situations. So the buybacks should continue and already quite aggressive. Obviously needs better underlying performance from their top 10 which will be quite busy this month end Unilever, Diageo reports and HL board decision 5 Aug. FWIW I think HL at £11ish to PE would be a disgraceful deriliction of stewardship of future returns. I'm trying to find better ideas than topping up again here.
Posted at 22/7/2024 12:28 by shieldbug
Judge Train on long term performance. The trouble with this is that if his strategy has only been successful because we have been living through a period that supports his thesis - then we have (he has) a problem when that changes.

It might not have changed, this could be a blip and FGT powers higher but the share price is quite a bit down on where it was 5 years ago.

One of my discomforts with Train is he never really presents a fundamental valuation argument for his holdings - while he often talks of relative value. I sometimes do wonder if he really is an entirely narrative based investor.
Posted at 19/7/2024 13:59 by growthpotential
You gotta love it, you can downvote the comment presumably meaning you disagree. Like if you are not happy with your losses, 1) you should accept that investing is simply not for you, 2) sell your FGT holding and move on. Lol, just lol!
Posted at 19/7/2024 12:56 by growthpotential
Not a holder of FGT, but I do hold a few of the holdings directly (RMV, FEVR, HL, DGE, LSEG). I cannot understand the criticism, judge Train on the long term performance, you have to admire how he has stuck to his investment style, which I imagine you were not complaining on the way up. Other funds might be doing better but are far more volatile...and I am saying this from having a fair few technology holdings
Posted at 02/7/2024 11:07 by steve3sandal
Following up a conversation on the managers other IT LTI.


Ref FGT
Quite a few ITs have the flexibility to go to 20% international and IIRC FGT has this optionality. However, Nick has actively been selling down FGT international holdings ostensibly because UK listed are such good value. I suspect it’s those intl sales which are raising cash for buybacks. £43M shares in Treasury is an overhang and I think these should be cancelled (another letter coming on!).
Posted at 04/6/2024 15:24 by steve3sandal
Some interesting observations in my email this morning. Look across to peers suggests trough is past, though there are lots of moving parts. Certainly the opportunity to kitchen sink 2023/4 but I suspect it’s discounted. FGT allows one to top up your drinks at an FGT discount to Covid low prices. I’m hopeful we are near the bottom.

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Shares of spirits makers have fallen to multi-year lows, including Diageo’s.
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Shares of other Spirits companies, including Pernod Ricard, Rémy Cointreau and Brown-Forman, are also at multi-year lows. We believe investors over-reacted to weak growth in recent results and extrapolated that to be the long-term trend.

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Posted at 14/5/2024 22:18 by spangle93
Careful GP. Nick Train is god-like and must be revered no matter how bad he performance



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Lindsell Train’s Nick Train is backing Schroders’ (SDR) ‘patiently executed strategy’ despite the asset manager’s shares taking a tumble.

Shares in Schroders, a top-10 holding accounting for 4.9% in Train’s £1.7bn Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT) investment trust, are down 13% this year.

Train said he ‘understands the reasons the industry is out of favour’ but insisted Schroders had a ‘differentiated and winning strategy’ and as such the shares had become ‘undervalued’.

‘Schroders has a clearly articulated and patiently executed strategy to shift its business mix to higher growth and higher margin segments, such as private wealth and private equity, and the strategy is clearly working,’ he said.

Following its recent results, the management highlighted the ‘value that has been created within Schroders, through its investment in new business lines that have, to date, been cost centres rather than profit generators’, he said.

This includes a joint wealth venture with Lloyds that now has £14bn of assets under management but only contributed £2m to group profits. This could deliver £40m a year and more in coming years.

‘You pay 11 times earnings for Schroders today, a business with 30% Ebitda margins and valued at £6bn, with £750bn of assets under management, £600m of surplus capital and a dividend yield just shy of 6%,’ he explained.

‘If the company can deliver even a smidgen of secular growth, then that rating and share price could change meaningfully for the better.’
Finsbury Growth & Income share price data is direct from the London Stock Exchange

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