Hargreaves Lansdown Share Discussion Threads

[kenlum] 07/10/2010 17:13

Who says that this is a placing of new shares?

[hoggetwood] 07/10/2010 15:04

True. H-L clients (many of whom did very well out of the flotation 3 years ago) would no doubt soak up much of any placing - and they could be informed of it at the press of a button, though non-client shareholders would have reason to feel aggrieved. But I still say: what placing?

[ianbrewster] 07/10/2010 13:58

A rights issue always costs more to administer than a placing - all those shareholders that need to be communicated with!!

[hoggetwood] 07/10/2010 12:14

Many thanks. You've clearly got your ear to the ground.
Wouldn't have thought, though, that they needed money. And if they did, wouldn't they do a rights issue? But I know nothing.

[robinnicolson] 07/10/2010 11:45

Rumours of a share placing of 13 million shares at approximately 430p.

[hoggetwood] 07/10/2010 10:33

What's going on today?

[hoggetwood] 20/9/2010 10:14

Erric. Could you, please, explain your reasoning?

[robinnicolson] 17/9/2010 08:32

Citigroup has raised HL. to buy from hold and raised the price target to 485p from 320p.

[liquidkid] 16/9/2010 11:53

Daily Volumes HL.
15 Sep 2010 (Wed) 240,698
14 Sep 2010 (Tue) 181,300
13 Sep 2010 (Mon) 187,809
10 Sep 2010 (Fri) 193,145
9 Sep 2010 (Thu) 131,296
8 Sep 2010 (Wed) 293,800

[liquidkid] 16/9/2010 11:40

Headline - WAGS in selling spree!
Must have been something spurious in the cakes at the coffee morning



On 15th September 2010, the Company received notification from Mr Nigel Bence, a PDMR, that on 15th September 2010, his wife Mrs Clair Bence, a Connected Person, sold a total of 190,000 ordinary shares at a price of 427.5 pence per share.

Mr Bence's resultant share holding (including those of his connected persons)
has reduced by 0.04% of issued share capital as a result of this transaction and is currently 187,684 ordinary shares representing 0.04% of issued share capital.


13th September 2010, the Company received notification from Mr Mark Dampier,
a PDMR, that on 13th September 2010, his wife Mrs Annette Dampier, a Connected
Person, sold a total of 415,000 ordinary shares at a price of 415 pence per
share.

Mr Dampier's resultant share holding (including those of his connected persons) has reduced by 0.09% of issued share capital as a result of this transaction and is currently 933,187 ordinary shares representing 0.20% of issued share capital.


On 10th September 2010, the Company received notification that Mrs Judith
Marson, wife of Nick Marson, a PDMR, sold a total of 50,000 ordinary shares at a price of 400.15 pence per share.
Mr Marson's resultant share holding (including those of his connected persons)
has reduced by 0.01% of issued share capital as a result of these transactions
and is currently 657,676 ordinary shares representing 0.14% of issued share
capital.

[nellie1973] 02/9/2010 19:23

Tipped in press-BUY

[hoggetwood] 02/9/2010 13:29

Kenlum: Spot on! To have achieved such excellent growth and profit growth despite the financial and market shennanagans of the last two years is quite a feat. I'll be buying on dips - pity I didn't have the courage to do so before. (Holder since float)

[kenlum] 18/8/2010 12:21

I can't see why not - a great business model - many said it was overpriced at 2.30!

[davydoo] 18/8/2010 11:29

I've actually gone short on this at £4.00. Reminds me of Rightmove. Great Company, making good profits, but i just dont see how the valuation can be justified as i dont see the past growth continuing at the same rate in the future.

[ben gunn] 22/7/2010 16:12

Certainly worth £1.50 a share but I dont know how long £3.50 will last.

[zangdook] 21/5/2010 12:48

Another problem with this outfit is the arbitrary way they decide which stocks they're willing to deal online. Buy a stock one day, come back to sell it next week and oops, We are unable to deal xxx online. No reason given or imaginable. I even once had them refuse to deal an AIM stock (listed on their site) when I rang them up.

[shazzieb] 27/4/2010 16:00

Some wacky movement with share price today.....up and down like a yoyo

[swingitbaby] 26/4/2010 21:09

RNS

peter Hargreaves to step down in the autumn

[robinnicolson] 26/4/2010 18:46

Current view of brokers & IC:

[goofball25] 21/2/2010 09:55

used to be with HL, they are way much too expensive to trade with. found their service a bit dated compared to peers. moved over to tdwaterhouse its 6.50 if a regular trader, and a better service with its settlement service.

HL's share price is looking very expensive at p/e 30, having touched an all time high last week. Profits are not astounding for such a highly rated company. Makes you wonder how much further it can go..

[don ron] 19/2/2010 11:46

Zangdook - try thesharecentre at £7.50 a trade. So far (one year and 75+ trades) they have never let me down online. They have a phone trade desk too.

[lordkendal] 16/2/2010 12:40

I'm showing a very healthy 57% profit on my shareholding in this company so i'm not complaining :-) but then i trade once in a blue moon!!

[zangdook] 04/2/2010 12:01

Yes, I could have done that and on that occasion perhaps I ought to have given up trying and phoned the order in sooner, but I signed up for an internet broker, where I can see my holdings, do a few dummy trades if need be until the price is right, and not have to deal directly with people. Have you tried ringing them up and when they give you the price asking them to try again in a couple of minutes in case it's moved? They don't like it. If the site was down once every couple of months, that would be more understandable, but it's down easily one day in ten, for at least part of the day.

But I have somehow acquired about a hundred holdings, and since they charge a tenner each to let you transfer them out to someone with a working computer system, I have to do some serious consolidation first.

I've been thinking of starting up a thread just for people to complain about their brokers, but it's too depressing to go through with it.