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[kitkat] 24/2/2005 16:09

nice one sav

last mm at 118p

[savogi] 24/2/2005 16:04

This is looking very nice now 400k buys,i wonder if institution are buying.

[kitkat] 23/2/2005 17:20

had to fill the gap between 107p and 112p
onwards and upwards now

[m.t.glass] 23/2/2005 17:06

Ended the day with a bullish candle, and those delayed buys.. 135p by Easter?

[myoldmate] 23/2/2005 16:55

Be nice to see another institution buying in. J O Hambro has 5.19% but that's it as far as I can tell.

[m.t.glass] 23/2/2005 16:39

And a couple of 40k T-trades for good measure. This feels like it might be about to resume the trajectory it was on before it reacted to the demise of its rival a month ago

[kitkat] 23/2/2005 16:00

nice 82.5k delayed buy
nice nice nice

[savogi] 23/2/2005 15:39

FOUR-- you might be right, if it goes down i would buy a lot more, and goal you are correct it looks very good right now after the result.

[kitkat] 23/2/2005 15:35

FOUR might go down before up as the results are out and the momentum is slowed down Sav

Chart on GOAL on the other hand looks bullish and we shud see 180p

[savogi] 23/2/2005 15:31

Yep, i am convinced it will go to 250.

[kitkat] 23/2/2005 15:20

yep

are you still holding FOUR sav?

[savogi] 23/2/2005 15:16

It is looking good in a bad market.

[kitkat] 23/2/2005 15:14

taking off!!!

[kitkat] 23/2/2005 14:08

done MT
great site

[m.t.glass] 23/2/2005 13:51

kitkat - any chance you could add the company website into your header please?

[kitkat] 23/2/2005 13:11

last mm at 112p

lets go go go

[kitkat] 23/2/2005 13:10

starting to go up

only blue in a sea of red

[risk investor] 23/2/2005 07:57

GOALS Soccer Centres, the Hamilton-based five-a-side football company, yesterday revealed rising profits and booming sales only months after floating on the stock market.

In its first set of results since it listed on London's Alternative Investment Market in December, the company said pre-tax profits for the year to the end of December came in at £613,000 against £306,000 the year before.

Sales rose by 35 per cent to £8.3 million during the 12 months, while like-for-like sales were up 7 per cent. While no dividend was paid this year, chairman Rodney Walker said Goals intends to pay "a small dividend each year for the foreseeable future", starting with the current financial year. He said the majority of "distributable profits and cashflow" will be ploughed into the group's ambitious growth plans.

Goals currently has 12 centres across the UK - including two in Glasgow and one in Aberdeen. It is planning to launch 15 more during the next three years, five of which it expects to open this year.

It opened a new centre in Wimbledon last May and another in the West Midlands last month. A centre on Teesside is due to open this year, while construction has already begun on two others at Heathrow Airport and in Sheffield.

Goals currently has total debt of about £10m, down from £19.2m at the end of 2003. However, it recently put a six-year revolving credit facility in place with HBOS, worth £22.5m, and more than enough to fund its expansion plan, according to managing director Keith Rogers. He said trading had continued strongly into the new financial year, and that he expected further significant progress during 2005.

Shares in the group closed up 1p at 108.5p yesterday - more than double the 59p issue price last December.

Goals' strong results come less than a month after Edinburgh-based five-a-side football and leisure chain Vida Sports collapsed into administration after attempting to expand too rapidly

[m.t.glass] 23/2/2005 07:44

"..Goals currently has total debt of about £10m, down from £19.2m at the end of 2003. However, it recently put a six-year revolving credit facility in place with HBOS, worth £22.5m, and more than enough to fund its expansion plan, according to managing director Keith Rogers.." (The Scotsman, Feb 23)

[m.t.glass] 22/2/2005 23:41

Is this about right me-o-mate? Dramatic forecasts!

Yr(31/12) - Sales(£m) - EBITDA(£m) - Pre Tax(£m) - EPS(p) -- DPS(p)
2003------- 6.2 -------- 2.2 --------- 0.4 --------1.8 ------0.00
2004------- 8.3 -------- 3.2 --------- 0.7 --------2.5 ------0.00
2005E----- 12.2 -------- 4.9 --------- 2.9 ------- 4.9 ----- 0.25
2006E----- 16.5 -------- 7.4 --------- 4.9 ------- 8.1 ----- 0.29
2007E----- 22.2 ------- 10.4 --------- 7.3 ------ 11.9 ----- 0.33

Growth
04-05 ---- 46.8% ------ 52.3% ------- 298.6% ----- 96.8%
05-06 ---- 35.6% ------ 51.0% ------- 67.2% ------ 66.3%
06-07 ---- 34.5% ------ 40.5% ------- 49.0% ------ 45.8%

[kitkat] 22/2/2005 15:49

just topped up