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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% | 355.00 | 52,768 | 16:35:03 |
| Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | |
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| 353.00 | 362.00 | 356.00 | 351.00 | 354.00 | |
| Industry Sector | Turnover | Profit | EPS - Basic | PE Ratio | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance Services | 220.78M | 21.08M | 0.4793 | 7.32 | 155.28M |
| Last Trade Time | Trade Type | Trade Size | Trade Price | Currency |
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| 16:35:03 | UT | 719 | 355.00 | GBX |
| Date | Time | Source | Headline |
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| 10/1/2025 | 15:12 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC Holding(s) in Company |
| 09/1/2025 | 16:32 | ALNC |  TRADING UPDATES: H&T reports strong quarter, notes budget cost impact |
| 09/1/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | H&T Group PLC Trading Update and Notice of Results |
| 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 |
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| Date | Time | Title | Posts |
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| 16/1/2025 | 12:35 | *** Harvey and Thompson *** | 128 |
| 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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| 2025-01-21 16:35:03 | 355.00 | 719 | 2,552.45 | UT |
| 2025-01-21 15:43:36 | 352.00 | 7,470 | 26,294.40 | O |
| 2025-01-21 15:17:25 | 355.00 | 1,500 | 5,325.00 | O |
| 2025-01-21 15:17:21 | 355.00 | 1,500 | 5,325.00 | O |
| 2025-01-21 15:14:33 | 355.00 | 5,632 | 19,993.60 | O |
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Posted at 21/1/2025 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 353p.H&t currently has 43,987,934 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of H&t is £154,397,648. H&t has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 7.32. This morning HAT shares opened at 354p |
Posted at 15/1/2025 16:03 by lord loads of lolly Judging by the share price, last Thursday's TU has calmed investor nerves (for now at least).Before its release, I said H&T looked priced to disappoint. Fortunately that hasn't happened - and with one less uncertainty to worry about as a result, the price has generally nudged up over the past week. It's still early days - and I've probably tempted fate writing this! - but I sense we could be in for a small, gradual upwards re-rate in the months ahead. The current P/E looks very undemanding (even in today's sluggish UK market) and the yield is decent. The main thing I'm still keen to know is how profits came in last FY, given the relatively late pledge book growth. Ultimately, this lending growth will boost the bottom line anyway. It's simply how much fell into the FY just gone and how much is still to come. Markets seem unusually wary of looking ahead at the moment. So I'm hoping for something significantly better than flattish profits for last year (notwithstanding an improved outlook for the current year, given the boosted pledge book). I'd also like to see more share buys from the BOD and have raised this in previous results webinars. I'll be making the same point this year if nothing's changed. Of course, the one other thing changing soon is H&T's year end date (30 Sept rather than 31 Dec). For the current FY, it'll publish results for the 12 months to 31 December 2024 in March as normal. Simultaneously, it'll publish unaudited comparatives for the 12 months to 30 September 2024 to establish a base for the new accounting reference dates. For the following year - being the first FY with the new YE date - statutory audited results covering the nine-month period to 30 September 2025 will be published in January 2026. At least this seems transparent, simply aiming to smooth out H1 v H2 seasonality. Rather than an attempt to move the goalposts in some smoke & mirrors cover up! |
Posted at 09/1/2025 09:56 by sphere25 "Record levels of new customers borrowing from us for the first time".Ominous signs out there for the economy this year. It ties in with growth continually getting downgraded, confidence getting hammered and what now looks like a flat lining economy at best. With gilt yields moving the way they are, they were so worried that they have had to come out with a statement yesterday to reassure the markets. The yield still spiked to near 4.9%, and doesn't want to fall away, with it currently sat at 4.86%. With inflation stubborn and expected to rise, how can they cut rates? It looks like they are going to have to wait for the economy to get hammered and then they're usually slow to move. Firmer talk of taxes having to be put up and spending cut too. Overall that will have all kinds of repercussions for any recovery this year. It could easily be a barrage of profit downgrades before the relief of any rate cuts. Retail updates aren't going down well today. You would think the market would come in and buy HAT in that sort of environment. It is a mixed update with the strong demand in the last ten weeks and pledge book being ahead of expectations, suggesting a good new year ahead. However, they're also wobbling with material growth expected, but not initially expected - hmmm. Apparently that is how they expect it. Sometimes the market looks at statements like that and has a think about whether they can trust the growth to come. The additional NI costs are in the price. A terrible downtrend still in play, but the company looks beaten down enough to entice a few decent buyers at 340p at the moment. I think these buyers are looking beyond the first half commentary to the stronger aspects mentioned. So some decent blocks hitting the book, but not enough to cause any enthusiasm as yet. As per most, there is usually just a stack of big sellers sat above these levels, weighing heavily on the price. In light of how illiquid this is and how few orders can be seen on the book, it is easy to believe that HAT should just go flying higher by taking out one or two orders on the offer. Wish it was that easy! Watching in here to see if the buying does pick up. It looks like it needs someone to keep buying those big blocks to allow a move over that key 360p level. Volume is at almost 400k - encouraging, but more needed. So keeping an eye here, BEG and CMCX to see what level of gloom we all have to face this year. Spew! All imo DYOR |
Posted at 27/12/2024 10:00 by wad collector Well, as the year draws to an end, and it has not been a good one here, time to look ahead?The business model is obviously an old and trusted one, albeit in a different world to the one it started in. From and economic perspective it seems that there is not much optimism about the economy next year, and that presumably means a secure supply of punters wanting to borrow or pawn. The harder question is does HAT still look attractive to fill that gap? The predictions for gold prices seem to be upwards but they are always going to be guesses, though as the company moves more into gold dealing and flashy watches it looks like that might be a sound move. Personally I bought at an average of 433p so obviously can't claim to call anything right here! I am going to hold and hope , though also have a habit , like many PIs, of not cutting losses early enough. |
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 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! |
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