Lindsell Train Investment Share Discussion Threads

[essentialinvestor] 25/8/2023 10:21

How much is Lindsell worth?, the £ value of his purchases need to be viewed
in that context. As mentioned recently the LTI NAV discount should arguably be
at least double any discount at FGT.

[steve3sandal] 25/8/2023 10:06

They’ve certainly shot one foot off giving away % of our LTL asset each year without a performance related hurdle. Not an attractive background to draw retail investors which is probably the main marginal buyer seller here. Individual holdings all under current £growth challenges reading reports, Ex RELX. So ….contrarian. Current NAV maybe £950 Offer £900. Im not doing a Michael Lindsell again just yet. If we see 20% discount at the offer then I’d certainly have a look under the hood again.

[spectoacc] 25/8/2023 08:03

There's certainly a price I'd buy back in at, albeit not sure I know what. Been two small AT sells at 86,600 already this morning.

[flyer61] 15/8/2023 12:49

STA states

Suspect more about the amount of money continuing to leave the market, rather than anything LTI-specific.

and I very much agree with this. A friend who works customer facing at a regional building society that every second person is selling their funds and putting the money on deposit.

LTI at this sort of discount seems to me reasonable buying with the long term in mind.

[essentialinvestor] 15/8/2023 11:49

Well tbf NT repeatedly warned on paying over NAV and LTI traded at 60% above
NAV (from memory) at the height of ZIRP and bond proxy stocks.

It seems utterly incredible now and to me the % over NAV seemed incredible then as mentioned.
Did LTI become a giant game of pass the parcel..? may be..
buy in the expectation of selling higher and just hope the music does not stop in the meantime.

Clearly huge money made here if your timing was anywhere near good.

[spectoacc] 15/8/2023 11:41

Were available at 90 offer earlier, which considering they'd been 100 bid only recently..

Suspect more about the amount of money continuing to leave the market, rather than anything LTI-specific.

[glavey] 15/8/2023 11:20

Has the parachute failed to open?

[essentialinvestor] 14/8/2023 11:24

FGT available on a NAV dicount of over 4% atm,
arguably the LTI discount 'should' be at least double that.

[spectoacc] 14/8/2023 11:14

Thanks those who encouraged me to take b/e & sell out again a while ago - @giltedge1 & @Flyers61 I think. Must be a feature of the vast share price but LTI seems unafraid to trade at daft spread levels, eg a trade at 863.72 today, vs close 931.00

[essentialinvestor] 11/8/2023 16:08

DGE's free cash flow is not a thing of beauty on the FY
although they gave reasons for this and I would give Diageo the
benefit of any doubt (at this point).

[giltedge1] 10/8/2023 15:04

Looks good buying xd 930 almost 6% yield for blue chips, I am reinvesting dividend ML also buying.

[spectoacc] 10/8/2023 09:23

Ah-ha, missed the XD, thanks.

[steve3sandal] 10/8/2023 09:21

XD £51.50 today of course. PayPal, Heineken and LSEG slightly disappointing results hit all of them and Diageo decent number but cashflow tilting the wrong way? Also we’ve Sold about 0.5% of our LTL holding at under value imo to the managers for turning up to work. I will put my quite large dividend to work elsewhere next month though. Cheers

[spectoacc] 10/8/2023 08:55

Not seen much reason for the recent slide?

[giltedge1] 28/7/2023 08:54

Hello Steve, thanks for your comments, yes transfer of LT shares, which yield 10%, at a knock down price is not agreeable to me either. I presume board considers it in the best long term interests, most successful companies pay share options & bonuses, but not as visible as LT, as so few staff. I don't see the need, as staff well paid & I can see NT & ML staying around for a much longer time than they have disclosed, of course they have so much at stake.
Anyway yesterday was great, hope we can hold on to gains & retail clients stay on board & increase stake, interesting to see FGT NAV today, should be good. I am staying onboard at 12% of my SIPP, as I think underlying portfolio great, just need to push FUM back to £20B.

[steve3sandal] 27/7/2023 17:05

Thanks ge1 good news today and evidently the underlying holdings must be operating well. I’ve always liked this collection and I imagine they will largely be more valuable in 5 years time. My gripe is that us LTI shareholders are not getting anything like fair value for our holding in LTL and I had partly invested on the basis that we eventually would. We’ve debated the directors approach to the valuation which also continues to ignore the large cash reserves usually reflected in Enterprise Values but ignored in setting sales/transfer to insiders. Train and Lindsell can do what they want with their shareholding but in my view it is unfair that the LTI Board consider it acceptable to sell down LTL and at the same time reflect that LTI income will be disadvantaged. They aren’t obviously doing the best thing fir LTI shareholders imo. A few people hold LTL shares but they aren’t having to sell them to the managers to feed the Profit Share Scheme. Why is LTI obliged?
Whilst I have made great returns from holding LTI I’m getting to the point where there is no edge to studying the metrics here. I’m thinking I’d be better off studying elsewhere. I took LTI from a few back to 10% of my portfolio at around the current share price so I’ve the option to rotate elsewhere. I find the share price usually goes up ahead of the XD as the share price is pregnant with £51. Those people selling at £984 are almost selling at £934. With an NAV of £1056 which is probably higher today, that looks daft. GLA.

[giltedge1] 27/7/2023 14:58

Update on todays main movers;

RELX +5%
BURB +3%
EXP +3%
SAGE +2.5%
FGT +2%
DGE +1.5%
ULVR +0.7%
LSEG +0.5%

LTI unmoved surprisingly some sales at £1025.

What is your opinion Steve?

[giltedge1] 27/7/2023 09:15

More good news for portfolio after results, RELX up 4% good result, SDR good result as well unmoved as yet, ULVR consolidating after good result, buyback to come, LSEG up 1% moving up the chart, FGT almost at all time NAV high. Steve I would hang on can see £1100 by year end + Div.

[giltedge1] 25/7/2023 08:51

Nice move by ULVR this morning up 5%, one of LT main shares & mine as well. Most shares in Fund now going in right direction. I too not happy with transfer of LT shares to staff, & selling at in my opinion knocked down price, I think 10% yield. Not that new staff, add much value, could run LT portfolio at home on a spreadsheet, so few holdings.
I am hopeful we are going forward from here, as fund prices & FGT moving close to ATH.

[flyer61] 24/7/2023 11:29

See where you are coming from S3S. We ultimately end up with an FGT! and a dividend like it has. Will take a while but this seems to be the direction of travel.

[steve3sandal1] 24/7/2023 10:28

So Profit Share Scheme RNS which informs little. We have had to sell 29 shares to the managers. I guess that means Nick and Mike sold around 87. There were 17 still in Treasury. So perhaps the scheme has bought 143. That's less than I thought and our dilution this year nearer 0.5% than 1%. Still we can't replace the asset cash flow or dividend with anything quoted. My direction of travel is out but not at current prices. Mirrors retail AUM dwindling. Am losing the faith in LTI after 14 years and actively researching alternates.

[giltedge1] 21/7/2023 09:11

Good to see sales this morning at 1020/1030, not sure why has taken time, all portfolio shares doing well, HL good uplift (not held by this fund) adds to positive LT sentiment. Mentioned in past undervalued. Gresham House taken out at much higher rating, even though pretty poor performer in terms of returns. Hopefully we can move forward from here.

[giltedge1] 15/7/2023 14:37

Nice rises by LSEG, EXP, BURB on Friday, Market has misspriced BURB, shares of this quality very rare. Huge gross margin markup to the punters. Feel good share robbing the rich not the poor. Portfolio moving in right direction need to clear 1020 hurdle to move forward.

[giltedge1] 14/7/2023 07:46

Good to see FUM steady in June, better than I was expecting, NAV now 1050. All shares are steady & rising, good gains by Exp, Sage & Nintendo. Only laggard Paypal, should have been sold, when at ridiculous highs 2 year ago, (even I can see that). Not sure why US fund holds Ester Lauder, a poor cousin of L'Oreal (a fundsmith staple). I think that is a Madeline & James pick, so no shares for you both!. Also I questioned why Global fund holds LSEG & DGE good shares but a duplication from UK fund, doesn't make sense. Anyway apart from these minor complaints, hopefully can rise from here. Hoping price stays same, when xd.

[flyer61] 12/7/2023 14:29

Spec my take on HL's point was that it was to do with the investment process not the actual BOD/shareholder relationship. Like most people I don't want them to start loading up on 'junk' but to stay laser focussed on a small selection of 'quality' Companies. Ergo why I argued HL should butt out. If they wanted to explain how LTIT shareholders were being stiffed then I would be happy to listen.

Your point about money being withdrawn from the stockmarket I think is spot on. DB beneficiaries are getting fewer and fewer and many people are now using their DC schemes to live off....my guess some are taking way more than they should. Also people selling equities to pay down their mortgage debt as the winds change.

Yep sign me up for the LTIT investment team! I'll take some of that.

Stve3 like you it is now at best only fair value so i'm not buying but continue to hold.