Hays Share Discussion Threads

[666james] 15/4/2010 09:02

A bit of profit taking but now moving north again.

[666james] 09/4/2010 16:21

someone seems pleased with Hays...reached 117p!! the highest it has been since around July '08

[wad collector] 06/4/2010 19:28

Solid looking graph to me.The worst behind us?

[666james] 01/4/2010 19:43

still its going up !!

[666james] 26/3/2010 21:53

now it's going up !!:+))

[monis] 26/2/2010 11:23

now it's dropping

[monis] 26/2/2010 09:16

I agree with the general consensus that these will go a lot lower dyor.

[darrin1471] 25/2/2010 14:38

just a year?

[volvo] 25/2/2010 12:33

Thanks for any concern but any loss here was very small. Nice to see its getting what it deserved. These public sector recruitors are going to a have a simply awful year.

[monis] 25/2/2010 11:20

Appalling results, looks like this is going a lot lower. IMO

[666james] 02/2/2010 22:12

wd... agree

[wad collector] 02/2/2010 16:39

There are a lot more worse things than losing money.

[666james] 01/2/2010 19:20

WD...no, just don't like it when someone has lost a lot of money. It's one of the worst feelings you can have IMHO. I got into Lloyds bank in '06 and lost a packet (along with plenty of others). Not nice.

[wad collector] 01/2/2010 10:14

You are either a diplomat or a social worker.Me , I am glad the share price is going up,more profits for holders and less redundancies are likely ...

[666james] 30/1/2010 14:05

volvo ...sorry to see the trade you made in Oct.09 is not working out. Hope the loss is not too great.Very very quiet on this board and Hays appears to be weathering the storms very well...only got a few so will wait until better times + the divi is good.

[wad collector] 29/1/2010 12:41

Err , Volvo, about that short....60P?

Presumably this is going to survive the recession and eventually get back to the £3 territory, maybe taking a few years.I will wait.

[lyntwyn] 23/10/2009 10:49

and an opposite view!

0646 GMT [Dow Jones] KBC Peel Hunt initiates Hays (HAS.LN) at sell with 90p target. The concerns surrounding public sector recruitment, the recovery of the private sector and risks to the dividend are three hurdles Hays needs to overcome before the brokerage can take a more positive view on the stock. Says the shares are likely to drift until these short-term concerns are addressed. But adds that the company's strong market positions will deliver growth in the long term. In the mean time, prefers SThree (STHR.LN), rated at buy. Hays closed Thursday at 103p. (ANT)

[lyntwyn] 22/10/2009 08:09

21.10.09 :-2.5, (105) Evolution Securities initiates Hays at buy with a 130p target price. The brokerage says company productivity is now on an upward trend and net consultant headcount reductions have ceased. Notes Australia, not the UK, is now Hays' largest market by some margin at around 38% of 2H'09 operating profits. Adds: "The recent move by the Australian Central Bank to increase rates suggests macro confidence going forward which should translate into positive momentum for Hays, as the largest specialist in Australia."

[volvo] 12/10/2009 08:31

Shorted today fully confident current trading is awful.

A top construction client Laing O Rourke will announce 1000 redundancies this week.

Getting worse not better going 60p.

[hamsterape] 30/9/2009 12:26

Something out today about the OFT fining companies in the industry for
price-fixing. Hays has been fined £30m.

Will they get a discount for paying up early, I wonder?

OFT Fines Recruitment Agencies GBP39.27 Million For Price Fixing (Hays)





LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. Office of Fair Trading, or OFT, said Wednesday it has imposed fines totalling GBP39.27 million on six recruitment agencies for price-fixing and the collective boycott of another company in the supply of candidates to the construction industry.

MAIN FACTS:

-The two other recruitment agencies have been granted immunity from fines in return for exposing the cartel.

-A Warwick Associates, Beresford Blake Thomas, CDI AndersElite, Eden Brown, Fusion People, Hays Specialist Recruitment (HAS.LN), Henry Recruitment and Hill McGlynn & Associates all breached the Competition Act 1998.

-Beresford Blake Thomas and Hill McGlynn & Associates have been granted immunity from fines as they are part of the corporate group which first provided the OFT with evidence of this cartel activity.

-All parties applied for and were granted leniency, apart from A Warwick Associates which is in liquidation.

-The total level of fines before reductions for leniency were taken into account was GBP173 million.

-A Warwick Associates Ltd was fined GBP3,303; CDI AndersElite Ltd. fined GBP7.6 million; Eden Brown Ltd fined GBP1.07 million; Fusion People Ltd. fined GBP125,021; Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd. fined GBP30.04 million and Henry Recruitment Ltd. fined GBP108,043.

[darrin1471] 25/9/2009 09:38

Thanks for the posts.
I am watching and have owned in the past.
I have a long term negative view on employment prospects so I expect to buy in again at lower prices in the future.

[lyntwyn] 25/9/2009 09:24

Hays not got many friends on here! Been a good steady share to hold in 2009.

24.09.09 :+0.6, (108.1) Morgan Stanley cuts Hays to equalweight from overweight. Expects the FY '10 dividend to be rebased to 4p from 5.8p in FY '09. Says it is also concerned that the public sector business, now over a quarter of group net fees, is likely to be a drag on profit recovery. Adds it's less bullish on staffers in general and sees only around 10% further potential upside. Increases the price target to 130p from 115p.

[lyntwyn] 12/6/2009 09:17

11.06.09 :+4.25, (95.25) Deutsche Bank says it remains sellers of the European staffing sector. "Whilst the declines in some staffing markets may be slowing in their pace, we believe that the stock market is overlooking pricing pressure concerns and negative mix effects on gross margins," says analyst Tom Sykes says. He says staffing firms are far from hitting the bottom of their earnings cycles. Rates Adecco (ADEN.VX), Randstad (RAND.AE), Michael Page (MPI.LN) at sell and downgrades Hays (HAS.LN) to sell from hold; target prices are CHF30, EUR8.50 and 131p, respectively. Hays' target is lifted to 63p from 62p.

[volvo] 05/5/2009 12:45

Adecco results for first 3 months out tommorrow at 11am.That will set the tone

[joe_public] 30/4/2009 14:17

1,400,000 trade showing as a buy,

which is a
'non-protected portfolio transaction or a fully disclosed portfolio transaction. Normally a transaction of a number of stocks dealt with by one market maker at an agreed discount to the market price'.

interesting....