Independent News & Media Share Discussion Threads

[finbarr] 27/7/2011 12:19

anybody out there?

[finbarr] 25/7/2011 14:29

I am itching to get back in here but it is so weak that it looks almost terminal.

Any reasoned views.

LBO, please do not cut and paste publicly available information

[caveat_emptor] 22/7/2011 09:34

There is a vey big seller here...
I, with some curiousity, await news of share trading by interests over 3%

[lbo] 20/7/2011 16:26

I think you will find INM net debt will at best be €360 million by next year! and APN shares falling also so 30% of APN at current mkt cap in euro is €550m = so only €165m for INM stake and then add in net debt ie Net debt : €473.6m in 2010 INM results







Adding in €473m net debt to current market cap of €220m = gives and EV of circa €700m and puts it on an EV/EBITDA of 7 which in the current market IS NOT CHEAP!

[caveat_emptor] 19/7/2011 16:40

Market Cap. 217.97 m
Shares In Issue 550.42 m

I have heard the valuation for APN
is 173 million Euros

[mcsean2164] 14/7/2011 17:49

Have taken my eye off the ball... anyone know why the sudden drop from 57 to 41c?

[lbo] 15/6/2011 22:52

Leading Irish business businessman Denis O'Brien, the largest shareholder in Dublin-based Independent News and Media, has warned that said that the company which publishes the Irish Independent is in an "extremely chronic financial situation."

[caveat_emptor] 08/6/2011 10:22

The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1855. Excepting the Financial Times, it is the only remaining daily newspaper printed on traditional newsprint in the Broadsheet format in the United Kingdom, as most other broadsheet publications have converted to the smaller tabloid/compact or Berliner formats. Its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, was founded in 1961. In October 2007, the Telegraph was the highest selling British quality paper, with a certified average daily circulation of 882,413. This compared with a circulation of 642,895 for The Times, 240,134 for The Independent, and 364,513 for The Guardian. According to a MORI survey conducted in 2004, 61% of Telegraph readers support the Conservative Party.

telegraph.co.uk is the online version of the newspaper. It includes the articles from the print additions of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph as well as web-only content such as breaking news, pictures galleries and blogs.

The site, which has more than 100 million page impressions per month and more than 11 million unique users, was named UK Consumer Website of the Year 2007 by the Association of Online Publishers.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "The Daily Telegraph"

[caveat_emptor] 08/6/2011 07:16

Does'nt the INDO get anything from ownership of 30% of that publishing company?
Is it that the inevitable technology interchange is not fast enough for some?

[caveat_emptor] 08/6/2011 07:09

I have long since believed that large organisations find change
and planning for change the hardest obstacle to staying on top.

Technology is rapidly changing "classified advertising" for example.

The local newspapers in the INM Group, can deliver the self admiring eyes that
are told all through the publishing week..."your picture is in the Democrat"

Vanity is what drives all local newspapers and sellers migrate to that vision
of Belinda, "awakening every grace"...to see the wonders of her face!!!

Ebay led the way, until it decided to downgrade auction technology in favour
of the less litigious virtual shop front.

Along came Done Deal, which will almost certainly remain in the present ownership, at least until they get an offer they cannot refuse.

The first tentative steps have been taken to bring Done Deal to the readership of The Kerryman.

One swallow does'nt make a summer...proving these relationships takes time,
during which of course the hurlers on the ditch criticise!!!

[caveat_emptor] 08/6/2011 06:59

The claim has been made that shareholders value has been damaged
because Gavin and his Team are behind the times(excuse the pun)....

Maybe I am missing something...but that is not what I am reading!!!

[caveat_emptor] 08/6/2011 06:53

How easy it is to forget that the majority of people who read a newspaper, have not yet converted to reading it online, because old habits are had to give up.

The Times, Telegraph etc et al, have the same fine balance to make
when pushing this technology to an increasing online readership and a decreasing offline, paper buying public.

[caveat_emptor] 08/6/2011 06:28

The leading edge skills are on board all right!!!

[caveat_emptor] 08/6/2011 06:16

LBO....which sanatorium are you in....

Schizophrenic tea shop?

[lbo] 07/6/2011 13:01

Dethroned Independent News & Media director Leslie Buckley has been accused of trying to "interfere" in the editorial coverage of the Moriarty Tribunal by the newspaper group.

Last Sunday the Sunday Times newspaper revealed that Mr O'Brien had launched a fresh High Court defamation action against the award-winning journalist Mr Smyth and Independent News & Media claiming that he had been libelled in an article published on May 27 last year.

[lbo] 07/6/2011 12:57

Split down the middle at INM

[lbo] 07/6/2011 12:55

Independent News & Media in turmoil as O'Reilly and O'Brien continue row

[caveat_emptor] 06/6/2011 21:00

APN to take over INM with Dermot Desmond nominee as Chairman?

Now that would be some deal?

[caveat_emptor] 06/6/2011 19:51

The high moral ground should only be occupied if you are
telling the truth!!!

[lbo] 06/6/2011 15:21

It's getting Nasty again!

[caveat_emptor] 05/6/2011 12:32

Times coverage including potential kidnapping fears, and spying by
UK detective agencies, has had quite a morning of it.

[caveat_emptor] 04/6/2011 08:01

At least one thing is now certain, the two sides need no longer appear to be "good friends" at Board level, for the sake of the share price!!!

[caveat_emptor] 04/6/2011 07:52

LBO, Bradye,

Yesterday's vote IMO was simply a trial run to show what would
happen if the 22.2% ever got to a bid triggering 29%........

[caveat_emptor] 03/6/2011 23:40

If there is something wrong with Corporate Governance surely
all the company's advisers, the Auditors and the House brokers and Nomad, and the like, would have resigned by now?

Ah! But were they not the 58%.....?