Hays Share Discussion Threads

[fruit slice] 15/12/2006 12:09

reason why margins are thinning is because the permanent business is booming. can you see an end to it yet?

[lyntwyn] 15/12/2006 10:40

The slowdown in UK public spending growth is already claiming victims. Hays, the specialist recruitment group, warned shareholders yesterday that its margins were thinning, primarily because of less lucrative public sector work in the UK.

Overall, the group still expects to meet profit expectations for the year to June. But the public sector setback and slower fee growth in the UK and Asia Pacific were disappointing for some analysts.

Recruitment is notoriously vulnerable to the downs in the economic cycle, even for Hays, which has made strides to diversify its business by country and by occupation.

After yesterday's 1½p slide in the shares to 159¼p, they trade on 16.4 times current year earnings. That looks a bit pricey, not least because Gordon Brown's economy drive has much further to go. Sell

[fruit slice] 14/12/2006 14:03

margins a bit disappointing but the growth rate seems to ne holding up. isnt 14% pretty racy growth?

[fruit slice] 12/12/2006 14:45

lots of dumping today. whats going on?

[chatterbox] 01/12/2006 11:12

15,000,000 shares traded today - any views?

[wad collector] 08/10/2006 20:34

The CEO selling 80,000 shares sounded alarming , but don't bother looking ; he still has 3.1 million !

[wad collector] 26/9/2006 21:17

HEY we are rolling up again I think.Todays announcements about product withdrawal relate to Hasbro not Hays so ignore them.

[sr2day] 06/7/2006 15:49

seems more like manipulation.

[prokartace] 04/7/2006 10:44

0809 GMT [Dow Jones] Goldman Sachs lowers Hays (HAS.LN) '06 target price to 150p from 161p and cuts pretax profit to GBP189M from GBP198M and to GBP206M from GBP219M in '07. Follows "bland" trading statement which showed UK growth had slowed to 5%. But maintains neutral rating given the share price fall which "seems an overreaction."

[sr2day] 29/6/2006 08:27

barclays stockbrokers reiterated as a buy yesterday.target 175.hang in there.

[mehul500] 29/6/2006 00:03

what the hell happened today? darn that investor's chronicle! they rated this a top buy at around 172p

[yf23_1] 28/6/2006 14:08

Trading statement looks OK, why is it going down ????

[barney_rubble2] 31/5/2006 14:45

Up & down like a tarts knickers!!

[diddlboy] 31/5/2006 13:51

Coming back strongly again. Just the Markets.?

[diddlboy] 30/5/2006 17:23

What HAS happened today .... man oh man.!!!!

[barney_rubble2] 27/5/2006 02:57

FD bought some shares yesterday I think...who cares as long as it goes up!!.. :o)

[diddlboy] 26/5/2006 14:57

What HAS happened today.? Don't really care .... just keep on doing it.!!!!!

[diddlboy] 17/5/2006 16:55

Anyone still in this.?