Future Share Discussion Threads

[spawny100] 21/7/2021 08:06

Great stuff. Wish I'd backed the truck up around £26 when I bought in here after their recent results.

[davr0s] 21/7/2021 08:03

Quiet board is a good board. Doesn't need rampers, people plucking targets out off thin air and "whoosh's". Company reports speak for themselves

[slogsweep] 21/7/2021 07:41

Where has everyone gone? Cracking company great update and nobody here

[spangle93] 06/7/2021 15:23

Funny old world. I bought Future in April 2000, during dotcom times, based on a tip sheet, for £8.75.

I got diluted to the hilt in the subsequent years, such that my original 200 shares were reduced to 13 - by 2017 the price was so low that the cost of selling didn't even cover the heinous £30 that computershare charges to trade.

So I decided to take part in a rights issue in 2018, and got 9 more, for about £3 a share if I remember right, solely so that I had enough shares to cover selling them.

I just sold the 22 shares, 21 years on, for 3203p each. I hope this will be my very last CREST transfer form. It's still more than a 50% loss, but I never thought it would turn out like this.

Wishing all who continue to hold the very best for (ahem) Future gains.

[spawny100] 22/6/2021 23:01

Nobled? Nobody else here it seems. Astoundingly quiet board given share price performance.

[albanyvillas] 15/6/2021 10:06

RCH were having a party , bit like futr but about a sixth of the rating. Write yp from John9

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[davr0s] 14/6/2021 16:37

You nobled it ?

[spawny100] 14/6/2021 08:13

£30. Nice. Very quiet board too.

[davr0s] 06/6/2021 15:17

Yeah totally agree

[srichardson8] 04/6/2021 19:55

rule of thumb is the quieter the board the better the share. and yes, you are talking to yourself apparently coming into a company that you barely know with the bright idea of shorting. the only serious short attempt here was blasted out of the water. but your point on gocom is a fair one though how often do these apparent flaws turn out to be of a much more minor impact than they first appear? At £3.4bn this is on the cusp of becoming a pretty serious and highly modern media business even with the smallish difficulties in events and the - I am sure - proper concern on cheap introductory insurance offers. Let's see how it pans out.

[le4r] 04/6/2021 07:58

Worth remembering that Penny and Zillah offloaded quite a number a couple of years back yet the share price has continued to march on. Just sensible in my view if you hold so many, irrespective of one's views of forward prospects for the business

[lomax99] 03/6/2021 22:01

And the sale as a % of her holdings? Not sure if she has sold any during the year, but as a % of her holding at the end of last year end it is under 4% (!). Hardly material.

[kinwah] 03/6/2021 21:47

I'm talking to myself but the CEO sells shares and discloses it late. Should be good for another £1 off the share price tomorrow.

[kinwah] 28/5/2021 16:38

This board's a bit quiet isn't it? The government announces plans to stop insurance companies penalising loyal insurance customers and not a comment on here. I took the opportunity to short a few at 2940p as it looked a no-brainer. Go Compare would suffer if people generally didn't chop and change their insurers regularly. Maybe no real impact for a year or so but in terms of sentiment always a few percent off the share price when this sort of thing happens.

[cheshire pete] 20/5/2021 00:30

Probably a teenage scribbler who didn't understand the business and its strong cash flow.
Castellain short tracker chart says it all Alphabeta4.

[alphabeta4] 19/5/2021 12:02

Short interest collapsed back in February off the last update from around 4.7% to 0.64%, albeit there could still be some shorters with interests below 0.5% being burnt in the background.

[srichardson8] 19/5/2021 11:55

These seem like extremely good figures. Reported interim eps at 41p and adjusted at 65p compares with a full year outcome of 45p and 75p last year. Borrowings and intangibles are up, of course,as a result of the acquisitions but just on a crude forward p/e ratio this looks pretty good value here to me. What happened to that brilliant short attacker?

[alphabeta4] 19/5/2021 11:38

Be interesting to see the new broker targets, I've got £33.28 based on some pretty cautious assumptions including no organic growth H2!

[whiteknightuk2015] 11/5/2021 00:51

MarkTime: investing in Future is better, however you word it, than turning down Google for $500,000 as some people did to give you a "cross-over" answer.

[daveme] 10/4/2021 19:20

Future's shareprice is all about its online activities. It makes money by directing its readers to other sites where they hopefully buy the various products described on the original Future site. Future's print business serves to promote its matching online websites where the money is made.

[marktime1231] 10/4/2021 13:22

I am hoping this is a thread about Future publishing which I hold indirectly, even though the header says Electricty for sector ... anyway, I have a cross-over question. Future publish magazines, I mean in print not online, how are they sold and distributed ... in newsagents or posted direct to subscribers, where is the booming demand coming from? Or is the boom for Future driven by expansion to non-publishing activity, chasing online advertising?

Why I ask is because I hold a good chunk of SNWS as a recovery/value play, SNWS are the overnight van distributor of newsprint and magazines to retailers, which has been in a sector characterised by slow and steady decline since we supposedly get our news online these days. But could hardcopy be in revival, enjoying a fundamental rise in demand rather than a seasonal splurge on football stickers? What is driving Future and could that be good news for SNWS or is it still a long term snooze?