James Halstead Share Discussion Threads

[henchard] 25/7/2018 13:27

Agreed elmfield - I do love JHD's no-nonsense approach to accounting and transparency. Too much obfuscation and cosmetic tarting up at too many companies.

[elmfield] 25/7/2018 13:14

Proper accounting, Could do with more of that! 😬

[gripfit] 25/7/2018 12:54

2 mill better then

[saint or sinner?] 25/7/2018 12:35

"gripfit 25 Jul '18 - 08:44 - 1277 of 1277 0 0 0 In line with last year ??" Yes but qualified by the sentence directly above it in the release ... In line with best practice, we shall expense these costs rather than amortise or construct an adjustment to "underlying" earnings.

[gripfit] 25/7/2018 08:44

In line with last year ??

[lundhousegreen] 25/7/2018 08:09

Pre-Close Statement. "......we are pleased to anticipate, once again, reporting record turnover and expect profits for the year to 30 June 2018 will be in line with last year" https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/london/james-halstead-JHD/share-news/James-Halstead-PLC-Pre-Close-Trading-Statement/77926891

[wad collector] 26/6/2018 16:33

The Aiea bid news was 22nd May , wouldn't really explain a share price rise 4 week later. Mind you there is often no clear reason for a share price change , even if some analysts confidentally give their opinion that it is due to X. Sometimes just "Noise" .

[trigger blade] 26/6/2018 13:49

I just checked the same thing and on 20/21 there were buys over 450, a large number of buys/sells of small quantities, which often happens with JHD and I've always assumed they were employee profit share scheme trades. There was also a big buy of 82100 at 451.7692. Anyway, I had assumed the rise was a reaction to the announcement that they wouldn't bid for AIEA. I am at a loss to explain the subsequent drop and pleased to see it going up again :-)

[wad collector] 26/6/2018 12:46

Ah yes ,I went too far back, as you say. No news no broker upgrades that I can find.

[gripfit] 26/6/2018 12:28

they did Waddy,,, just check the trades

[wad collector] 26/6/2018 12:13

A lot of the apparent share price movements on the advfn graphs are a bit artefactual for JHD , they sometimes use the buy or sell prices as midprices for the graph, often on tiny volumes so most of the swings are not real. Not sure the selling prices went above about 430 earlier in month.

[gripfit] 25/6/2018 15:01

wht the spike to £4,50 -£4,60 and then back ??

[gripfit] 13/6/2018 13:10

SMASHING , ill have a butchers(look)

[gripfit] 24/5/2018 12:36

bought a couple of thousand myself

[saint or sinner?] 23/5/2018 17:26

Added a few more today. Expect a slow climb to £5+ now the uncertainty has gone.

[bda3490] 23/5/2018 08:24

I remember in the late 90s when JHD and Airea (then Sirdar) were both aboyt £50 million market cap . Now one dreams of 50 million and the other is near £1 billion.

[trigger blade] 03/5/2018 13:18

How do you get to that valuation pete?

[elmfield] 03/5/2018 13:15

60p, Enough. Just walk away. Never overpay.

[petebarnes1] 03/5/2018 13:04

Airea bid should be a £1

[gripfit] 26/4/2018 10:11

its not ,I agree , so why didn't we bail out at £5.25 ??

[3800] 26/4/2018 09:41

the steady slide in the share price continues at what level do holders feel it's good value to top up? If ADVFN data is to be trusted historical pe is still over 20 with EPS of 17.6p it doesn't yet seem cheap to me. 3800

[gripfit] 26/4/2018 09:24

they are probably running a slide rule over it at the moment ( if you know what one of them is ) ;o)))

[irenekent] 26/4/2018 09:18

What about the Airea bid?

[wad collector] 28/3/2018 12:32

Even with the 25% share price fall over the last yr it still has p/e of 17. It does not shout out to me as a screaming buy ; happy to forget about it but not adding. I am down about 5% on my average buy price but have made some big gains here in past trades so not complaining.