Huveaux Share Discussion Threads

[barbra2] 06/2/2007 06:32

Thank you, PujaBaby. Perhaps I'm being too cynical - often newspapers' tips are engineered. I bought in not realising that the company has been tipped in 2 Sunday papers. I thought I had spotted a sudden increase in purchases of these shares in the last 2 trading days. I ought to have done more thorough research before plunging in.

[pujababy] 05/2/2007 21:19

hi Barbra
i very much doubt those were sells.
the 'T' protected trades will have been transacted earlier in day, but the spread remained the same hence they would be buys.
also, for that qty i would not expected any pressures on the price.
wouldn't worry at all, just enjoy your holding.
the next few weeks will be exciting.
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[barbra2] 05/2/2007 17:55

could the 300,000 'T' transactions be sales instead of buys?

I think they are - that's why the share price has not moved up despite the large number of buys during the day.

Buyers today have inadvertantly help someone to offload their holding (possibly) Sorry for stating the obvious!

Hope I will be proved wrong as I have also bought today.

[jlabrey] 05/2/2007 13:36

Hear, hear!

[broomsticks] 05/2/2007 11:22

We do mind your intrusion, this is a quiet thread for serious investors in Huveaux of which I am one.

[lennox lnx multibagg] 05/2/2007 01:42

GUYS I HOPE YOU DONT MIND MY INTRUSION.

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TINY MARKET CAP. JUST 0.2 MILLION. ONLY 24.02 MILL SHARES IN ISSUE, INTEREST IS RISING.

THIS WILL BE A 600% CLIMBER TOMORROW, GET IT ON YOUR MONITORS..

LENNOX IS GOING TO RISE LIKE A PHOENIX.

DONT MISS THE BOAT FELLAS.. WE GOT A MULTI BAGGER ON OUR HANDS.

[sikhthetech] 04/2/2007 22:24

Excellent, some positive press review and tipped...
Good Luck all

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[pujababy] 04/2/2007 20:39

This is what i told you all around beginning November time........
well.... its happening now......... see i said it'll go up to 80p, well it will very soon...
enjoy it !

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PujaBaby - 3 Nov'06 - 12:08 - 317 of 344 edit

This is heading up !

Bid rumours will send it shooting to 80p +

IMHO
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Reynard46 - 3 Nov'06 - 12:17 - 318 of 344

What have you heard, Puja?
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PujaBaby - 3 Nov'06 - 12:53 - 319 of 344 edit

i'll get the link and read yourself..... please wait.

also keep eye on this weekends papers !

Cheers !
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[pujababy] 04/2/2007 20:36

also from Sunday Times today-----


Buy Huveaux, 52p, as a growing educational publisher which should benefit from the recent bid speculation surrounding larger peers such as Pearson and Reed Elsevier. It also has good track record for successful integrating acquisitions.

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[jonathanlabrey] 04/2/2007 04:49

Tipped in today's Sunday Telegraph - very nice.

Huveaux is top of its class

With recent bid speculation around Pearson and Reed Elsevier, interest in professional and education publishing remains lively. Unlike their more glamorous consumer publishing counterparts, these businesses remain sheltered from the current advertising slump.

Quietly building its presence in these areas is Huveaux, the political, learning and professional publisher created from a cash shell in 2001 by John van Kuffeler. He is supported at Huveaux by Kevin Hand, the deputy chairman, who knows business-to-business publishing well, being a former chief executive of Emap.

With a market value of around £79m Huveaux has some way to go before it achieves van Kuffeler's goal of creating a £1bn company. But it has doubled in size in each of the past two years, growing through acquisition from sales of £14m in 2004 to some £45m today.

As the pendulum swings back to testing from coursework in British schools, Huveaux, which owns Lonsdale and Letts, is well positioned to establish as clear a market lead in the revision materials market as it has done in political information with its Dod's brand.

And it has a track record of successfully integrating acquisitions, with pre-tax profits growing steadily from £2.4m in 2004 to the £6.3m forecast when preliminary results for 2006 are announced in March.

Since we first tipped the business in 2005, the shares have moved from 45p to 52p - hardly dynamite. But we think there is scope for further progress towards the peak of 72.5p reached some years ago. Buy.

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[bald sparrow] 24/1/2007 10:07

AXA S.A. have increased their holding to 20.83%.

[elmfield] 16/1/2007 08:35

?? On the move today...! What gives us a penny out of the blue?

[jlabrey] 12/12/2006 23:42

Overall, this is quite disappointing. The turnover and profit improvements have been bought through acquisitions. Growth is flat in healthcare, teachers are not buying the revision guides and Epic turnover is down. Some margin improvements, admittedly, but not what I was expecting / hoping for.

[char1iegeorge] 12/12/2006 20:46

So why the drop in share price?

[elmfield] 12/12/2006 08:21

And turnover on up to about £45+ HMM, See trading statement.
Think I will add at some stage pre results, wonder what the earnings per share will be? Any guesses?

[welsheagle] 05/12/2006 19:04

Last post should read turnover up from £1.06m to £27.7m in last four years.

[welsheagle] 05/12/2006 19:02

From November's 'Company Refs', when price was 51p:-
a/ Prospective PE ratio of 14.2 (based on six broker forecasts, three recommending 'buy', two recommending 'overweight', and one recommending 'Hold').
b/ Forecast growth in eps of 15.5%.
c/ Positive cash flow per share of .48p.
d/ Net cash per share of 1.54p.
e/ Turnover up from £1.06m to £27.7m in last year.

[jlabrey] 04/12/2006 22:37

We had a pre-close trading update this time last year: maybe we will get one again this year....

[broomsticks] 15/11/2006 15:20

That is good news and gives an indication of Epic's ability to work, not only across, its own company's (Huveaux)nternal divisions but also across business and world sectors.

Agree with this bit "This contract success is of strategic importance for both Epic and Huveaux."

aimo, dyor

[jlabrey] 15/11/2006 13:53

Epic, part of Huveaux Learning, has been selected by Prudential as its
preferred e-learning Partner.

Following an extensive review and tender process Epic was chosen ahead of 6 other companies, securing the Pru contract until 2009.

Prudential is widely recognised for the quality of its e-learning training, with its Learner Management System 'Learning Space' receiving many accolades in the last year from the Biz Media/e-Learning Age e-learning Team of the Year to a bronze IITT award for the project implementation of Learning Space.

Mark Nobbs, Head of Operational Training, Prudential UK said " We were keen to work with a thought leader in the e-Learning industry who is globally connected and able to assist us in enhancing our e-learning strategy.

"The work Epic is doing in researching and reporting global trends and by the quality of the content it is producing for innovative blue chip companies is a differentiator. We were equally impressed by the energy and enthusiasm employed by Epic to constantly improve its offering in terms of technology and content. This is critical, as we need top quality learning content to assist our people in working for today and learning for tomorrow."

Tracy Capaldi-Drewett, Commercial Director at Epic commented: "This contract success is of strategic importance for both Epic and Huveaux. We have a great opportunity in developing world class learning solutions with Prudential"

[broomsticks] 14/11/2006 13:25

A dozen celebrities are giving their time to this week's 'Teach First' initiative, which is directed at University graduates inviting them to take up the profession. It is a measure aimed at filling the ever increasing need for teachers as demographic trends increase and older teachers retire.

Enter e-learning to partly fill this need as it provides the means by which teachers can deliver more providing they have learnt the technology first, as Boris Johnson found out.
His verdict on the new electronic white board as the slides changed at the slightest touch, thus displaying the 'wrong' information was a Bunteresque, "Crikey"!

I set out below a summary of an article in todays' Independent by Richard Garner, Education Editor.


"It was a lesson with a difference for sixth-formers at the St Marylebone Church of England High School first thing yesterday morning.

After all, stand-in teachers are not supposed to show their glee at the prospect of the Prime Minister being arrested over the "cash for honours" affair.

Nor, for that matter, do they often admit that "the trouble with politicians is they're incredibly vain".

And nor are latecomers often greeted in such hail-fellow-well-met fashion: "Are you going to join the class?

But in this case, the supply teacher for the lesson at the London comprehensive was Boris Johnson - the Conservatives' higher education spokesman and sometime television celebrity.

He was part of a week-long celebration of the Teach First initiative - under which graduates who have not trained as teachers are given the chance to work in the classroom on leaving university.

A dozen celebrities - including the Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman - have signed up.

Mr Johnson began by telling his audience he was a Tory MP and to take into account that - at times - he might seem "unnecessarily prejudiced".

He admitted to being a little nervous - "although perhaps not nervous enough" - before entering the classroom.

He has taught English and Latin before, in Australia, but that was before the introduction of the interactive whiteboard which proved just a little bit too interactive for him.

The trouble was that it changed slides at the merest touch - unlike the old blackboard - and so a presentation of different options for reforming the House of Lords suddenly disappeared.

We never had these when I was teaching."

Technical support soon resurrected the lesson and the pupils were then told of the four options for reforming the House of Lords - replacing it with an elected second chamber, an appointed second chamber, a mixture of the two or keeping the status quo (with 92 hereditary peers).

"How many peers are there in the House of Lords?"

Mr Johnson asked his class before admitting: "We don't quite know because they keep dying all the time."

He told them that Jack Straw - "You've heard of him?

It isn't a disgrace not to know Jack Straw" - who was drawing up proposals for the Government, wanted a mixture of an elected and appointed second chamber.

He said the main plus point with the present system was that "they [the peers] do it for free".

"They turn up, OK they get their expenses and some then knock off but a lot of them really are superb guys speaking against legislation for the good of the country."

The biggest minus point - both for the present system and an appointed house - was the possibility of corruption, he said.

At the end of the lesson, he asked his class of 21 - 19 girls and two boys (the school is girls' only except for the sixth form) - to vote on the four alternatives.

"This really is a Straw poll," said Mr Johnson.

He said afterwards he had found it "shattering" to be on his feet for 55 minutes delivering the lesson.

"It is a very hard job although it can be incredibly rewarding," he said.

"I do see what people can get from it."

He had, though, no plans to adopt it as an alternative career in the event of an exit from the political arena.

The pupils said their new teacher had been fun.

I liked it, although he is quite biased."

Helen Bailey, 17, added: "He's got quite a lot of charisma.

I didn't agree with some of the things he said, though."

aimo, dyor