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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type | Share ISIN | Share Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headlam Group Plc | LSE:HEAD | London | Ordinary Share | GB0004170089 | ORD 5P |
| Price Change | % Change | Share Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade
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| -1.60 | -1.69% | 93.20 | 13,216 | 16:29:25 |
| Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | |
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| 93.20 | 94.20 | 93.80 | 93.20 | 93.20 | |
| Industry Sector | Turnover | Profit | EPS - Basic | PE Ratio | Market Cap |
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| Floor Covering Stores | 593.1M | -25M | -0.3095 | -3.01 | 76.58M |
| Last Trade Time | Trade Type | Trade Size | Trade Price | Currency |
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| 16:35:21 | O | 185 | 205.00 | GBX |
| Date | Time | Source | Headline |
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| 12/6/2025 | 15:59 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC Holding(s) in Company |
| 23/5/2025 | 13:22 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC Director/PDMR shareholding |
| 23/5/2025 | 11:09 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC 2025 AGM Poll Results |
| 22/5/2025 | 15:44 | ALNC |  Headlam accelerates "transformation" plan amid decline in sales |
| 22/5/2025 | 07:00 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC Trading Update |
| 01/5/2025 | 17:05 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding |
| 30/4/2025 | 18:18 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC Total Voting Rights |
| 17/4/2025 | 14:13 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC Grant of awards under Performance Share Plan |
| 08/4/2025 | 15:00 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC Employee Long Service Awards Scheme |
| 25/3/2025 | 15:52 | UK RNS | Headlam Group PLC Director Declaration |
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| 18/6/2025 | 17:43 | Headlam | 759 |
| 05/11/2007 | 20:40 | Important FOOTBALL question | 3 |
| 05/9/2006 | 18:18 | Meteoric rise on the cards? | 108 |
| 01/11/2005 | 11:54 | klhlk | - |
| 20/12/2002 | 16:18 | Headlam - Sinks on heavy discounted Institutional sale | 1 |
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Posted at 22/6/2025 09:20 by Headlam Daily Update Headlam Group Plc is listed in the Floor Covering Stores sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker HEAD. The last closing price for Headlam was 94.80p.Headlam currently has 80,784,267 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Headlam is £75,290,937. Headlam has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of -3.01. This morning HEAD shares opened at 93.20p |
Posted at 23/5/2025 23:41 by davidmcconnell15 HEAD are in real trouble. Just look at all the property disposals and property sales and leasebacks in 2024. All of that money raised has been spent funding 2024 trading losses and towards 1st half 2025 trading losses. IMO they require additional sales of circa £50 million per annum at a minimum to break even and get their head above water. This is why they have already announced the closure of their Nottingham distribution centre, with a view to its sale covering 2025 losses. They are just selling off the family silverware in the hope their disastrous transformation plan will eventually pay off, which it will not. When they claim their trade counters sales are growing, it is because they have changed the way they report some of their sales. An example being, if a long standing client in the Regional Distribution Division, who normally receives their goods by delivery, chooses on occaions to collect from a trade counter, this sale is re-classified as a trade counter sale, not a regional distribution sale. Hence the so-called growth in trade counter sales, which is just another way of polishing a bad situation. I expect their next announcement in July will be on the lines of closing all their regional sales offices to 'simplyfy' all into one or two at Coleshill and Tamworth. Their distribution centre at Thatcham looks likely to be the next one on their list to be sold off to fund trading losses and likely to be replaced by a leasehold version of one of their so-called "cross docks".When HEAD continually state all will be well when "the market returns", they have not considered that today's market is the market. there is not going to be a short term increase in the overall market to provide them with the minimum additional £50 million they require asap. Added to this, when they next report their 1st half results in July, be sure to ask what increase their provision for bad debts is having closed 30 brands in October 2024. Also, reports form the wider industry confirm that HEAD have introduced major customer annual sales rebates for customers in 2025 and also become extremely aggressive with additional discounting. All to try and stem the torrent of their previous regional distribution turnover to their rivals, all of whom are growing their sales to the detriment of HEAD. Will HEAD mention their gross margin in their half year results? and if so, will this the no. be announced after allowing for the 100's of new customer regional distribution annual customer rebates, which are not payable until end of January 2026 at the earliest. So, when they say in July that their rate of decline in sales is improving, before you consider increasing your position in HEAD, please remember to ask them how their gross margin and exposure to bad and doubtful debt is going. |
Posted at 11/3/2025 10:49 by martinmc123 wealthoracle.co.uk/d |
Posted at 11/12/2024 18:25 by no dice Perpetual Ltd increased their holding in HEAD by 638,404 shares yesterday (10 Dec) - just over £804k based on the closing price of 126p. |
Posted at 10/12/2024 20:05 by velocytongo Vcp is heavily indebted and Head is not. The downside looks limited and 3-4 times upside. |
Posted at 10/12/2024 19:33 by bda3490 Victoria went up 60% on Md share buyMaybe Headlam lot could buy a lump Its not like any on the board have a stake |
Posted at 09/12/2024 19:00 by bda3490 Very cruel commentsThey are on track for net zero Not entirely sure if that’s the share price |
Posted at 06/12/2024 03:04 by arja surely he should get a bonus as well :) . Chartwise HEAD looks awful but now close to chart support level in November 2001 - clutching at straws ( wry smile ) |
Posted at 05/7/2024 11:16 by catabrit I decided to look into this a bit more and have actually concluded that management are a lot better than I was lead to believe. They have an excellent awareness of the business and the various trends affecting it and the industry more broadly. They are also very candid, particularly as it relates to challenges and solutions.A lot has been said about their pivot to online, multiple retailers, tradesmen etc. Management's view was that the independent channel was potentially in slow, secular decline and so they decided to move into other areas of the industry that they felt were in secular growth. Obviously you assess the facts and probabilities and make your bet and get on with it. They wouldn't be the first to get the future wrong - look no further than Intel who missed the iPhone, GPUs and EUV lithography! Clearly Likewise and others have eaten into Head's independent retailer / distribution market share and I don't see that abating anytime soon albeit the former have hinted that their rate of expansion / investment might slow. Nor do I anticipate a recovery in their end markets, at least in the short-term albeit we may get a bit of optimism and relief post the election. I think it's worth stressing just how badly the roll-up was executed. The legacy of it is a tonne of unnecessary fixed cost and disparate systems (IT), teams and processes. Hundreds of little fiefdoms, basically. I know that a lot of management textbooks tell you that local autonomy is the way to go but it doesn't always work. Particularly in industries undergoing structural change. Sometimes you need the various businesses to talk to one another: to implement the same systems and processes and best practices. When volumes are steady or rising, that can all be absorbed quite easily. But when volumes decline and competitors start to eat into market share, the whole thing unravels. So I think prior management need to be held accountable here and I understand that might be offensive to some of you who are pro Tony (I think that's his name) who previously ran it and now runs Likewise. There were lots of hints that a big strategic review / rationalisation strategy is coming which could result in a lot of their surplus real estate being sold off. I asked about a sale and leaseback but they said this was not on the cards as they wanted to remove fixed costs from the business, not add them. The value is quite compelling as it trades at less than its real estate plus inventory so the going concern isn't being priced in. However, I think a dividend cut is practically inevitable and it will be interesting to see if this is announced in September and if so, how the market reacts. Perhaps that is already baked into the share price. I think the downside is somewhat protected by tangible book value as well as the take private potential. PE love an asset-backed recovery play that requires a restructuring. But I likewise worry that this could get hit if the dividend is axed. Thoughts welcome. |
Posted at 14/5/2024 10:39 by jeffian #641,Well they weren't alone. That's the trouble with share buybacks (I hate 'em). The theory (reduced shares in issue = greater profit/NAV per share) may be ok but in practice the market will put whatever value they like on the shares. Managers need to understand they can only manage the things under their direct control - revenues, overheads, margins, dividends etc - but they can't manage the share price. |
Posted at 08/3/2024 10:17 by donald mcdonald It’s incredible that eighthwonder condiders Headlam “was left in a mess by Brewer”.Tony Brewer was fired by Headlam on or around 14th September 2016. The share price was £4.47. The profit reported in 2016 was £40.1 million and the dividend was 22.55 pence per share. The mess began the day Tony Brewer was fired because there was no one left on the Board who had any knowledge or experience of the complexities of distributing floorcoverings. What is more, in the intervening period, no one with any knowledge or experience of floorcoverings has been added to the Headlam Board. In the past, 100’s of independent retailers and flooring contractors purchased shares in Headlam. They considered the annual dividend as a form of loyalty rebate. Smaller shareholders did not really follow the share price as the generous dividend was of paramount importance. Several independent retailers and contractors used to attend the Headlam AGM just to get a chance to meet up and shake hands with Graham Waldron and Tony Brewer. Investing in Headlam for them was also invseting in their own future. Before Graham Waldron and Tony Brewer revolutionised the wholesale floorcovering market, an independent retailer might have to wait 7 to 10 days for a cut length of carpet to be delivered to them. Graham & Tony introduced “everywhere, everday” deliveries. The independent retailers loved this because in effect Headlam’s £100 million of inventory was available to them on a next day basis. Carpetright could no longer compete on service with the indepependent retailers. Headlam have gone all in with their decision to abdicate their core business of independent retailers and flooring contractors in favcour of large customers (Tapi, SCS, et al) and so far 2,000 carpet fitters & floor layers. It is a policy that they will be unable to reverse if they find out in the future that this business plan is flawed. Headlam may be right, but it going to take 2 to 3 years to find out because their business plan for Trade Counters is basically ‘build it and they will come’. With Headlam currently hemorrhaging so much market share in their core business to Likewise and the many independents, each trade counter needs to get to a break even turnover of £1.2 million in double quick time. Then there is the difficulty of getting to an earning enhancing turnover of £2 million. And that has to happen at every site. If one trade counter gets stuck at £600,000K, another needs to contribute over £3 million to make uo the shortfall. It is hard to get people from within the industry to go on the record, but privately very few believe that Headlam will achieve its objectives. Trade magazines are reticent to publish Headlam’s bad news stories for fear of losing advertising revenue. Not that Headlam does much marketing nowadays. Manufacturer’s and Suppliers are keeping their heads down in public and waiting to see what develops. And then what happens if one of their so-called larger customers fails or decides to procure from a different source. It has happended before and lead to Headlam issuing a profit warning to shareholders. The next 2 years should determine the outcome. |
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