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GOAL Goals Soccer Centres Plc

27.20
0.00 (0.00%)
28 Mar 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Goals Soccer Centres Plc LSE:GOAL London Ordinary Share GB00B0486M37 ORD 0.25P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 27.20 - 0.00 00:00:00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
0 0 N/A 0

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21/7/2005
18:12
thx for that chapman
worth topping up imho

gucci
21/7/2005
15:22
POWERLEAGUE BETTER VALUE IMHO BUT THIS MOVED TODAYS PRICE

Buy Goals Soccer Centres at 127.5p
Argues Rob Cullum, editor of Trendwatch.co.uk
Warren Buffett once said: "I like a business that an idiot can understand, because sooner or later it will be run by one". We're fairly sure that no idiot is lurking in Goals Soccer Centres, because it's certainly easy enough to understand.

Goals is one of those companies that has found a successful business model, operating 5-a-side football centres, and is now aggressively rolling it out across the country.

Its roots go back as far as 1987, when Goals' managing director Keith Rogers co-founded his first soccer centre. After building it up to 11 centres, he sold it to 3i for 28 million pounds. So Mr Rogers clearly understands what he's doing; and if people like 3i are involved, you can be fairly sure that there's a lot of growth potential in this sort of business.

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Why is that? Well, it's almost self-evident, really. Football has captured the imagination of the world. Millions of people want to play 5-a-side for fun and for healthy exercise. And if you offer excellently run, attractively designed, all-weather, floodlit facilities, people will hopefully beat a path to your centre. 30,000 customers pay Goals around 5 pounds per game every week.

Goals was formed in November 2000 to effect a HBOS-backed management buy-in of an existing business that operated five football centres, often on land leased from schools. It floated on AIM in December 2004. Goals now has 12 centres, and plans to open another 15 over the next three years. The minimum criteria for a centre are that it must be well located and easily accessible within urban areas of at least 150,000 population. A typical centre costs 1.8 million pounds to set up and 5 months to build. Most pitches use the most up-to-date artificial grass technology, which more accurately reflects the characteristics of real grass, but without the heavy maintenance overhead.

Most of the current centres are held on long leases, often located on land leased from schools or local authorities. Goals allows the occupants of these premises to use the pitches during off-peak times free of charge. This mutually beneficial arrangement helps Goals to secure well-located sites from both the public and private sectors.

Its maiden full year results, published in February, looked very promising. Sales up 35%, earnings per share up 50%. KBC Peel Hunt foresees extraordinarily fast growth: a near doubling of earnings this year and a further 66% surge next year. The shares are currently rated in line with its sector; but that is much too low relative to its earnings growth rate. This is evidenced by the exceptionally low 2006 PEG of 0.3.

It does have competition. For example, AIM-listed Powerleague has more than double the number of Goals' centres and attracts 75,000 players a week compared to Goals' 30,000. Goals claims that its emphasis is on delivering a quality experience for the customer. Around 30% of Goals' revenue comes from non-foot balling activities such as bar sales.

That's about all there is to know. Goals is a company with a well defined growth strategy. And, in general, strong earnings growth and a rising share price go hand in hand. It isn't quite in Warren Buffett's league in terms of scale but Warren's attraction to simple businesses that he can understand (and his rejection of those he cannot) is legendary. The story behind Goals is so straightforward that even we can understand it; so Warren would probably love it. BUY

Key Data

EPIC: GOAL
NMS 5,000
Spread 125p - 130p
Market Cap 53.4 million pounds

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chapman123
21/7/2005
11:18
nice :-)
chart breakout

gucci
10/7/2005
23:56
super-high P/E ratio expands even more

this is no google

heartless112
08/7/2005
16:41
Typical! took profits last week as they were close to previous highs, seems I may have been a bit hasty.
myoldmate
08/7/2005
09:02
GOAL looks set for a breakout
gucci
27/6/2005
14:32
from last weeks shares magazine bodes well for goal and pwr if they get it right ..........


In a different league?
I purchased some Powerleague (PWR:AIM)shares a couple of
weeks ago just after they floated and I have been doing
some comparisons between them and Goals (GOAL:AIM),
which floated last December. The latest profit forecast for
PWR is £4.1 million for the year to June 2005.Goals reported
£2.3 million in its recent finals and is valued at £48 million.
However Powerleague is on £43 million,which appears
rather odd,if not the wrong way round. Am I missing something?
Both companies operate in a buoyant and growing market,is
it just a matter of time before the valuation of Powerleague
catches up with Goals?
PHIL SHEPPARD
Susanna Twidale replies: Interesting point. It is worth bearing
in mind that Powerleague only floated in May this year, and when
Goals first floated back in December its valuation was much
lower – at £26 million. Goals shares have almost doubled over
the past six months while Powerleague has only been
trading for three weeks. Analyst David Davies of KBC
Peel hunt says 'the growth prospects for both companies are
huge if they get it right'. When Goals launched it was the
first of its kind and the market has been impressed by the quality of
its centres and its strategy. Even though Powerleague has
double the number of centres, all Goals centres are brand new with
state-of-the-art pitches, while Powerleague is in the process of
updating facilities. Basically the market has been more impressed
with Goals so far but, as Powerleague has only been
trading for a few weeks, it has time to catch up.
It could also have something to do with investor activity – Goals
has been proactive on the PR front and could have been busy visiting
fund managers, thus promoting activity on the shares. If Proactive
has been quieter, then less people know about the company and
there is less fuss about the shares – hence no price appreciation!
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chapman123
25/6/2005
22:11
When did this all happen? Last time I checked the list of major holders only J O Hambro were on this list! Bodes well though, there are some quality investment houses in the frame.


Major Shareholders---------------------------Amount-----% Holding
Keith Taylor Rogers--------------------------5,047,886----- 12.05
J O Hambro Capital Mgmt Ltd------------------3,978,980-------9.50
Hermes Administration Services Ltd-----------2,785,000-------6.65
Aviva PLC------------------------------------2,650,000-------6.33
Framlington Investment Management Ltd--------2,463,795-------5.88
Schroder Investment Management Limited-------2,000,000-------4.78
JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management-----------2,000,000-------4.78
Old Mutual Asset Management------------------1,695,000-------4.05
William Berrie Gow---------------------------1,659,427-------3.96
Deutsche Asset Management--------------------1,555,603-------3.71

myoldmate
23/6/2005
09:37
chart looks set for a breakout
gucci
26/5/2005
11:52
check out PWR powerleague which floats today same thing will double too IMHO
chapman123
24/5/2005
13:19
-->Reynard46 - I've been considering getting out since 23/3, when the candlestick chart produced what I call a half-curtis, but which hadn't quite developed into a full-curtis pattern.

My Sharescope charts include a c/stick one with exponential moving averages set at 20, 50 and 200 days. Curtis refers to the name of the chap in our Swansea group who first brought a particular shorting pattern to my attention (possibly collected from Linda Bradford Raschke?). It involves identifying the first daily candle to be wholly below a newly-falling 20ema line (body and tail all clear of the line), then drawing a sideways line from that day's low point. If in the following few days the intraday price drops through that line, short it. (Subject to glancing at the history of that stock to see if the pattern works).

That 23/3 half-curtis (114.5p low) wasn't completed until 15/4, which was really too far away to count.. and it was an up-day for the stock, so I didn't act. But it left a doubt. Intraday prices have since revisited that 114.5p level a few times. Yesterday morning it happened again, and the behaviour of the marketmakers seemed a bit odd, so this time I got out. It hadn't dropped through that 114.5p level, but I guess I felt I had given it more than enough time to pull clear in recent weeks and it hadn't done so.


mtg

m.t.glass
24/5/2005
11:48
thanks MT.
gswredland
24/5/2005
11:22
MTG, what caused you to sell?
reynard46
23/5/2005
22:46
Most charts relate to market prices on the day, not to the premarket float price.. Some based on the closing price first day, others depending on how quickly sites woke to its existence ;o/

(Often stocks open up/down from float price on day one, depending how many customers the MMs can see queueing to get aboard)

Sharescope show it opening on 7 Dec at 78.5p, peaking 85.5p and closing 83p (all mid prices).

PS: i was among those who sold out this morning.

m.t.glass
23/5/2005
20:43
any thoughts on where the bottom might be?
notice also that the float price was 62 according to some articles on here however the chart shows 82?

gswredland
11/5/2005
08:42
Alot of sells today, is it the market on a down day or is there a problem with the company. At 116p his has a peg of 0.24, forcast growth of 81%,and a forward PER of 19,any ideas. Many thanks.
ronmikeh
10/5/2005
07:37
looks like we're up and away
kitkat
10/5/2005
07:18
Ah wondered where you got to. Hope you had a nice time.
See you come back and we get these nice tick ups to start the day.
Very nice indeed :)

tole
10/5/2005
07:04
yes ta
still holding Tole
been on holiday

kitkat
09/5/2005
16:21
KK - not seen you around for a while? Hope all is well. Are you still in with a few small caps? Curious if you are still holding afew of the regulars? tia
tole
09/5/2005
15:08
looking good
kitkat
01/5/2005
08:58
You're right myoldmate - also saying on their website that theyre already building at Sheffield and Heathrow!!!! Ive played at both PL and G's and from what I can see, G's have got it spot on and theyre always packed -no comparison!!!
inspiredinvestor
29/4/2005
19:04
Looks like another one's in the bag.



Also Goals competitors Powerleague are floating, I think it's next month, if they rise early doors as GOALS did it could be a nice little earner!

myoldmate
21/4/2005
13:40
very quiet
kitkat
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