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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type | Share ISIN | Share Description |
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| H&t Group Plc | LSE:HAT | London | Ordinary Share | GB00B12RQD06 | ORD 5P |
| Price Change | % Change | Share Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade
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| -2.00 | -0.57% | 348.00 | 21,457 | 16:35:09 |
| Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | |
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| 340.00 | 348.00 | 348.00 | 348.00 | 348.00 | |
| Industry Sector | Turnover | Profit | EPS - Basic | PE Ratio | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance Services | 220.78M | 21.08M | 0.4793 | 7.26 | 153.96M |
| Last Trade Time | Trade Type | Trade Size | Trade Price | Currency |
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| 16:35:09 | UT | 41 | 348.00 | GBX |
| Date | Time | Source | Headline |
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| 01/10/2024 | 15:49 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC Holding(s) in Company |
| 20/8/2024 | 09:21 | ALNC |  H&T notes strong pawnbroking demand as interim profit rises |
| 20/8/2024 | 06:00 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC Interim Results |
| 05/8/2024 | 13:55 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC Holding(s) in Company |
| 23/7/2024 | 15:46 | ALNC | EARNINGS AND TRADING: James Cropper posts loss; Arbuthnot profit falls |
| 23/7/2024 | 06:00 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC Trading Update and Notice of Interim Results |
| 22/7/2024 | 13:37 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC Holding(s) in Company |
| 10/6/2024 | 13:37 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC PDMR Dealing |
| 04/6/2024 | 16:40 | ALNC | IN BRIEF: H&T promotes Non-Exec Wood to senior independent director |
| 04/6/2024 | 13:52 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC Appointment of Senior Independent Director |
H&t (HAT) Share Charts1 Year H&t Chart |
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| Date | Time | Title | Posts |
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| 01/12/2024 | 15:18 | *** Harvey and Thompson *** | 101 |
| 12/10/2024 | 15:47 | Harvey and Thompson Pawnbrokers | 1,590 |
| 16/4/2012 | 15:55 | Trading Story | 21 |
| 24/5/2010 | 06:39 | H&T - Growth in recession and credit crisis times | 173 |
| 17/1/2010 | 13:15 | H&T with Charts & News | 13 |
| Trade Time | Trade Price | Trade Size | Trade Value | Trade Type |
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| 2024-12-20 16:35:09 | 348.00 | 41 | 142.68 | UT |
| 2024-12-20 16:12:05 | 340.00 | 6 | 20.40 | O |
| 2024-12-20 16:12:05 | 340.00 | 10 | 34.00 | O |
| 2024-12-20 16:11:09 | 341.08 | 926 | 3,158.43 | O |
| 2024-12-20 16:06:17 | 345.10 | 2 | 6.90 | O |
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Posted at 21/12/2024 08:20 by H&t Daily Update H&t Group Plc is listed in the Finance Services sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker HAT. The last closing price for H&t was 350p.H&t currently has 43,987,934 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of H&t is £153,078,010. H&t has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 7.26. This morning HAT shares opened at 348p |
Posted at 29/10/2024 08:30 by spob .Gold hits record high as rate cuts and Middle East tensions fuel demand Gains of 40% in past year spark predictions of rally to $3,000 a troy ounce Leslie Hook Financial Times 21 October 2024 Gold surged to an all-time high on Monday, fuelled by geopolitical tensions and central bank interest rate cuts. Bullion’s price climbed to $2,740.37 a troy ounce on Monday, representing a 40 per cent gain in the past year. The war in the Middle East, coupled with uncertainty over the outcome of next month’s US presidential election, have supercharged gold’s allure as a haven asset. “The outlook for gold is quite bullish,” said Joni Teves, UBS precious metals strategist, who has a $3,000-a-troy-ounce price target next year. “We think that investor holdings of gold have a lot of room to grow over the next year or so, and that should drive prices higher.” The anticipation of further rate cuts, with the US Federal Reserve next meeting on November 6-7, has also helped propel gold prices this year. Gold does not yield any interest, so prices typically benefit from falling interest rates. Many global central banks are in easing mode, with recent rate cuts in the eurozone, Canada and the UK, among others. Although physical gold demand has been dented by high prices in the top market China, buying from central banks has been very strong as they diversify their reserves away from the dollar. During the first half of this year, central bank buying hit a record high of 483 tonnes, according to the World Gold Council, the industry body. Western investors have also poured into gold since the summer, with five consecutive months of global inflows into gold-backed exchange traded funds during May to September. Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank, said the gold price drives include “the risk of fiscal instability and uncertainties surrounding the US presidential election” as well as central banks diversifying away from the US dollar. The outcome of the US election on November 5 between vice-president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump is looking very close, adding to the uncertainty. “There are a lot of risks around the next few weeks, with the US election coming up,” said Teves. “We could be in for some choppy price action.” Silver prices have also climbed sharply, hitting a near 12-year peak, reflecting tight supply for the metal, which is used in electronics and photovoltaic cells, as well as a knock-on effect from rising gold prices. |
Posted at 13/9/2024 13:58 by lord loads of lolly saint / jm - have you actually bothered looking at H&T's revenues & profits over the past 5 years?www.hl.co.uk/shares/ Whilst it's true the climate is positive for any pawnbroking outfit right now, H&T has done pretty decently. Revenues up from £129m to £220m between YE Dec 2020 & YE Dec 2023. Also up from 2019's pre-Covid £160m. PAT at its highest for 5 years in Dec 2023. It's true the share price has wavered this year. And - largely due to Covid when stores were shut - share price growth over 5 years has been marginal too. But I suspect any current weakness is down to investors being wary of a repeat of last Christmas, when the retail stock mix was clearly wrong. You can certainly level some blame at management for that. But they appear to have addressed it now. And barring any unforeseen glitches between now & Christmas, I'm confident H&T will have re-rated upwards by early next year. As for Albermarle & Bond, from memory Gillespie was only briefly in charge there. And that, after the rot had already well & truly set in anyway. A&B were abnormally dependent on a strong gold price. And when the economy began to improve & gold prices fell sharply, sadly they were stuffed. I say sadly, because every cloud has a silver lining. H&T's acquisition of A&B's pledge book for £8m was possibly their most astute move yet. Of course, the UK economy might eventually start improving. But with a gloomy-sounding budget due in less than 7 weeks' time & interest rate drops likely to be modest & staged, the outlook for pawnbrokers still looks fairly benign IMHO. |
Posted at 20/8/2024 09:43 by lord loads of lolly Anyone else tuning into their webinar at 12.00 noon today?The results gernerally look solid to me. Not spectacular, but no real nasties either. Store numbers are up 8 (just under 3% of their total estate), so you'd expect a small uplift from this alone. I'm pleasantly surprised by the significant pick up in retail sales (& to a lesser extent margin), as these were largely what clobbered sentiment post-Christmas 2023. It's good to know pledge book redemption levels have now normalised. But less good that this was "later than anticipated". I was expecting an interim divi of 7.5p, so 7p's a bit underwhelming IMHO. Especially if a 7.7% divi increase is supposed to reflect "the Board's confidence in the future prospects for the Group". All in all, nothing to frighten the horses. But nothing to put rocket boosters under the share price either for now. That said, the share price had increased significantly over the past 2-3 days, so today's adjustment simply brings us back to where we were a week ago. The spread on this share varies enormously, making the current reported drop of 22p highly misleading & frankly meaningless. |
Posted at 11/8/2024 18:42 by lord loads of lolly jm6783 - Let’s see how ROCE pans out this year. I doubt it’ll be far off mid teens. It’s not THAT far off even now.Poorer than expected retail trading last Christmas clearly hit investor sentiment. You omit to mention the share price was regularly well above 425p prior to that. And barring any hiccoughs this Christmas, I’m expecting a share price far closer to £5 than £4 (if not higher) by Jan 25. If you think otherwise & you’re currently holding, I suggest you simply sell/reduce & move on. In my experience, H&T isn’t a tuck away & forget type of share. You have to keep an eye on it, sell into the peaks & buy back in when it’s out of favour (assuming you still have faith in it longer term). |
Posted at 24/7/2024 10:55 by jm6783 I broadly agree with ggrantsu. The conditions were ideal for strong growth in the pledge book - cost of living crisis and high and rising gold price. On top of that, management kept trumpeting ‘record months for lending’ in the first few months of the year, which is somewhat misleading.Look, overall, management raised 16m in 2022 and promised ‘mid-teensR |
Posted at 19/5/2024 07:55 by lord loads of lolly Thanks jm6783. Fair enough on the loan book figures.Could you point us to last year’s RNS/TU, giving pledge book growth figures for the first four months of 2023, as I don’t recall seeing that. I think investors form an overall opinion on management, based on how close to guidance things turn out. Over the past 5 years, HAT has consistently been profitable. It certainly took a knock during Covid (hardly surprising given the enforced store closures during lockdown). But it’s bounced back since, creating over £7m more operating profit in 2023 than in 2019. And barring a major black swan event, 2024 looks set to comfortably beat 2023. There aren’t that many companies with such an unbroken string of profits, not to mention a decent yield & a progressive dividend policy. That’s not to say they haven’t made mistakes or that they’ve foreseen every downturn. Last year’s multiple loan facilities & the raise weren’t best handled I agree. And the jewellery sales downturn pre-Christmas could perhaps have been better predicted, given cost of living pressures. But they did take some remedial action, both in terms of luxury watch stock reductions earlier that summer and in price adjustments/loan interest increases to restore the overall margin. I’m not totally convinced by the price paid for their Maxcroft acquisition either. But the early signs are it’s performing as expected. And by transferring Maxcroft’s evident forex expertise to the rest of the business, they may well improve overall performance in that division. Personally, I don’t have a problem with their performance share plan options. Unlike many other company schemes, their options only vest if fairly ambitious EPS & TSR targets are met. And that would be good for private investors too. |
Posted at 01/5/2024 16:29 by lord loads of lolly wad collector - me too! It certainly has been a short, sharp return to form.I was lucky enough to set a 375p limit buy order on HAT back in January 2024. This was triggered at 319p on 23 January (day of their TU with the profits "miss") - albeit still a pretty darn good set of results. I'd originally planned to average down on my latest January tranche if the price hit 415p (a 30% return in 3 months). But given how close we are now to 30th May ex dividend date, I plan to hang on and take the divi. Depending on how the share price looks then, I may bank some profit before July's TU just in case! You know what they say about profit warnings coming in threes, though I personally doubt this will be the case with HAT. As for £5, it wouldn't surprise me if we hit that at some point later this year - or in Jan 25 when the next TU comes out. I've always had a mental note to reduce my holding significantly if we got to 550p+ and that remains the case. Given I bought in as low as 196p and my average is a tad over 300p, I'd be quite happy with that (especially once dividends are factored in). It never pays to be TOO greedy & HAT is currently my largest holding, so I'm conscious that I'd be heavily exposed to any unforeseen downturn here too. |
Posted at 23/2/2024 17:07 by lord loads of lolly riverman77 - I agree to an extent, but think you're being unduly harsh referring to "constant own goals".The two you highlight - plus piecemeal top-up funding since 2023 - are the main ones that spring to mind. Sure, that's not great, but there's still a LOT the company's doing right. They wouldn't be announcing record annual profits otherwise. The current storm clouds remind me of the period when H&T was under FCA investigation for its HCSTC loans. All was doom & gloom then, with the share price feeling like it was on a permanent downtrend. I took the view/gamble that any fine (& reputational damage) was likely to be fairly insignificant & short-lived. So I added several times at prices between £3 & just under £2, as the share price continued to nosedive. Not only have I benefitted from the dividends since, I've also made a half-decent return on capital - even allowing for recent corrections. I'll be doing the same again this time if March's Preliminary Results cause any further significant correction (unless there are any more curved balls of course). On the issue of RFX v. HAT. Both have their strengths and both have suffered significant share price declines since summer/autumn 2023. So it's not all down to management. There's a change in sector sentiment at play here too. Which I suspect will be fairly short-lived. As for a potential merger with RFX, I very much doubt that would ever be waved through. Or indeed even contemplated by either party. But you never know! |
Posted at 17/1/2024 15:34 by lord loads of lolly Interesting how Ramsdens' share price reacted to their YE results.On 12th Jan, RFX closed around 219p. Results came out on 15th Jan, initially leading to a 10% share price drop to 198p. Since then, it has recovered just over half, currently trading at around 210p. Their results v. 2022/3 YE were good, but with possibly lower overall growth than H&T? We'll soon find out! Ramsdens noted a slowdown in trading for the first quarter of their new financial year (Oct - Dec 23), with flat foreign exchange gross profits & currency purchases from returning holiday makers "still subdued". They also referenced flat revenues in their jewellery retail division. RFX highlights: TAILWINDS: Continuing strong gold price Customer demand for small sum short term loans remains high Potentially strong forex growth in 2024 HEADWINDS: £0.4m increase in energy costs from Feb 24 when their current fix ends (unlike H&T which has locked in at a similar rate to its previous tariff until end 2025) 10% increase in Real Living Wage from May 2024 (will also impact H&T) Slowing forex income growth during summer 2023 (last August, H&T said "Momentum is building into the peak summer months, supported by the launch of our 'Click and Collect' service in June. In addition, we have broadened the range of currencies held in stock at store level, and available for immediate purchase. Average transaction size remains below historic levels at £398 (H1'2022: £406) evidencing, we believe, careful holiday budgeting by our customers." So they MAY also have experienced a slowdown here, if Click and Collect didn't increase transaction volumes enough to offset any fall in average transaction values). H&T's share price has softened again over the past few days. Perhaps as a result of the subdued market reaction to RFX's results. I presume H&T's results will be out on Monday 22nd January. Looks like they may need to beat RFX's growth significantly if the share price is to hold up. Regardless of how the market reacts next week, anything below 400p would still be a fair entry point in the long term, IMHO. Particularly given the decent, progressive yield. |
Posted at 04/1/2024 09:39 by lord loads of lolly A lot of the time with H&T, share price movement (both up & down) is largely down to marketmakers fiddling around with the spread.It's happened again this morning, with the chart showing a price drop of just over 2% (9 pence). Whereas in reality, all that's happened is the spread has widened to 17p (Bid 412p, Ask 429p). Not long ago, that same spread was in the mid single digits. H&T's imminent trading update will be illuminating. Personally, I doubt anything's knocked the company significantly off course since 17th November 2023, when the CFO said "We have continued to see good growth in the pledge book in the second half of the financial year, with sustained demand for our products and services, and the investment we are making in our store estate is expected to underpin future growth. The new facility, alongside our existing long-standing support from Lloyds, will enable us to grow our pledge book further in FY24." Had there been any major reason behind early December's share price drop from around 470p to below 400p (briefly), I imagine the company would be legally obliged to RNS it. If I'm wrong, the current share price volatility is more understandable - and the trajectory is likely to worsen. But I still find this scenario highly unlikely, given the steady stream of positive updates & Director share buys at higher than current price levels. So for now, I'm not losing any sleep over these short term price jolts. |
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