Ashley (laura) Share Discussion Threads

[norbert colon] 07/1/2016 14:03

Agreed Barnesian

[barnesian] 07/1/2016 13:52

It is dropping with the general market. Relative to the market it is marking time.

I don't think we will see much movement until the next announcement which probably will be the preliminary results in early April.

I think ALY is suffering from lack of news and uncertainly following the Singapore office acquisition so the April announcement should reduce uncertainty and help the price (unless trading has gone right off which I doubt).

There are no broker recommendations one way or the other.

It ranks highly on Stockopedia for quality (86) and value (85). It's overall Stockrank is 89 (out of 100).

Patience.

[donald trumpton] 07/1/2016 13:07

This stock is going absolutely nowhere now, or is it?

[srpactive] 23/12/2015 18:57

Nice 350 000 purchase at the close.

[srpactive] 21/12/2015 14:49

No, you keep it, just crawl back under your stone, that's a good one.

[marvel gay] 21/12/2015 12:46

So what do you want - a medal?

[srpactive] 21/12/2015 11:31

Certainly is I hold itv also.

[dung shop ing] 21/12/2015 10:29

Santa rally?

[martinthebrave] 19/12/2015 15:43

Debt-free dividend shares – and those under threat
By Kyle Caldwell
4:31PM GMT 18 Dec 2015

A host of high profile names have cut their dividends this year – we screen for shares that are bucking the trend

Debt-free dividend shares

ShareScope, the trading website, has applied a number of stock market filters for Telegraph Money to identify attractive stocks with apparently secure dividends. First, it screened for shares that have no debt. The argument is that such companies can afford to maintain or grow their dividends.

ShareScope found 19 shares in the FTSE All Share that have zero total borrowing. It then looked at the forecast "dividend cover" of each share - the ratio of company's net income over the dividend paid to shareholders. The forecast is based on analysts' predictions of dividends for the future year.

Shares that scored below 1 on this metric were then omitted from the table below, on the basis that their future divis are potentially insecure.

Once this was applied, just 14 shares remained.

The majority, 9 of the shares, yield a fair bit less than the average share in the FTSE 100, which currently yields 4.2pc.

The top five of our list, however, yield more than this.

The top payer is Laura Ashley, the home and fashion retailer. It has a forecast yield of 7.3pc.

Games Workshop Group - a business which serves the thriving community of people who play war games - takes second place, yielding 5.9pc, followed by PayPoint, the ATM provider, offering 5.4pc.

Mechanical stock screening is valuable, and used to some extent by most professional investors - but it does not necessarily expose other risks that could threaten a business or its future ability to pay dividends.

Share______Sector____Yield
Laura Ashley Retail 7.3%
Games Workshop Retail 5.9%
PayPoint Payment specalist 5.4%
Persimmon Housebuilder 5%
888 holdings Bookmaker 4.3 %

[martinthebrave] 19/12/2015 15:37

Nice plug for Laura Ashley in today's Telegraph. An article featuring top sustainable Dividend stocks by Kyle Caldwell has ALY as No1 in quite a short list of 9 stocks. Data supplied by Phil Oakley at Sharescope. I hold.

[donald trumpton] 18/12/2015 10:07

Well this is going well isn't it.

[srpactive] 16/12/2015 20:15

Well I have had alot of my money back in dividends
already so I will continue to buy, near 8% yield.

[11_percent] 16/12/2015 16:41

SCAM.

All the money has gone East.

Bail, while you can guys, this is going to get very ugly.

[srpactive] 16/12/2015 16:28

Flushing out weak holders, I continue to buy.

[jimmywilson612] 16/12/2015 12:51

Bon marches releasing figures today saying trading is poor due to mild weather , looks like a few clothing retailers dropping because of this. Maybe or maybe not related?

[wirralowl] 16/12/2015 12:36

Thanks, speedsgh, I subscribe to Stockopedia, so had seen that article and various discussions on ALY on the site. Happy with the risks re: the property purchase, love the dividend and its SR of 90 offers some confidence too.

[speedsgh] 16/12/2015 12:10

Following the change in regulations a year ago, they appear to have disposed with releasing an IMS so the move shouldn't be related to that. Possibly other news in the offing (is ALY normally a leaky ship?)?

In the meantime this recent article was an interesting read which gives a fairly balanced view of the current state of affairs imo -

[wirralowl] 16/12/2015 11:38

Not sure why the price just fell sharply, but taken the chance to buy in @ 26.25p. Divvy if it can be sustained an enticing 7.6%.

[bedroom ants] 14/12/2015 10:12

Now it's down. Foolish me was hoping for more on Friday.

Oh well, next up day then..

[srpactive] 12/12/2015 19:43

Completely agree, the others in my income portfolio
are gvc, hgm, paf and itv. Although gvc are about to
buy bpty which I feel will be very good for the share
price, the dividend is being stopped for most of 2016.

regards

active

[janekane] 12/12/2015 17:51

I'm holding for the long term it's a great Divi earning part of my portfolio

[srpactive] 12/12/2015 09:04

okay, thank you.