Marks And Spencer Share Discussion Threads

[loganair] 31/5/2018 09:35

Ess - I wouldn't buy MKS at the moment because at best the dividend will stay static and until they return to their core customer base and expertise their profits will remain static and their share price will not be going any where, definitely will not be going up.

[essentialinvestor] 31/5/2018 09:28

Tempted to buy a few last Friday, but MKS has never been good to me.

[philanderer] 31/5/2018 08:56

Yes, +2p netting off the dividend 👍

[careful] 31/5/2018 08:32

ex divi today 11.9p.
up apart from that.

[diku] 31/5/2018 08:17

They use the word dealmaking....about time the Mks board take a leaf out of that book...do deal whilst choices are there or you dig your own grave...


Ocado is joining the FTSE 100 after seeing a big jump in its share price following a year of dealmaking.

[opodio] 31/5/2018 08:12

We have announced a final dividend of 11.9p (full year dividend 18.7p, level year-on-year). This will be paid on 13 July 2018 to shareholders on the register of members as at close of business on 1 June 2018

[diku] 31/5/2018 08:08

Wonder if some of the fundies have already been dumping...lost faith in jam tomorrow by board...take a leaf out of the Sbry-Asda book...do a mega deal...

[philanderer] 31/5/2018 00:28

'A lesson in IT from M&S -- adapting to a digital-first world'

[loganair] 30/5/2018 20:12

Unless M&S rapidly return to their core customers and expertise they are very likely to to be demoted to the FTSE 250 when the next review comes around.

[philanderer] 30/5/2018 19:59

'Ocado elevated to the FTSE 100, while M&S avoids the drop'


Ocado is joining the FTSE 100 after seeing a big jump in its share price following a year of dealmaking.

The online retailer's promotion to the blue chip index was confirmed on Wednesday in the latest quarterly reshuffle.

Ocado is joined by betting firm GVC, owner of Ladbrokes Coral, while G4S and Mediclinic are demoted to the FTSE 250.

Marks & Spencer, in the FTSE 100 since the index was launched in 1984, just avoided the drop.

[loganair] 30/5/2018 12:12

O'dear! when will M&S ever learn still pushing fashion, they need to return to selling stylish clothes to their core market customer.

[philanderer] 30/5/2018 12:02

:-)

'Fans go wild for Christine Lampard's Marks & Spencer dress - and it's selling out FAST'

[diku] 30/5/2018 07:50

Think MM will want to sucker/lock in divi seekers today by keeping it below 300p...tomorrow it opens around 289p- 292p...

[1corrado] 30/5/2018 07:03

Can i still buy share today at MKS and get the dividend of 11.9p and need to keep them till tomorrow and then I can sell it on Friday and still be entitled to the payment of the dividend.Can any one reply.Thanks.

[bartram] 29/5/2018 21:19

MKS would have had to drop to around 263p to drop out of FTSE 100. Automatic demotion requires a stock to be capitalised 111th. or lower in the FTSE All Share Index ranking list at the time of the review.

[philanderer] 29/5/2018 20:48

"Ocado set to join FTSE 100 elite in quarterly stock market reshuffle"

Retailers fare badly in rejig though Marks & Spencer hangs on ‘by the skin of its teeth’


A surge in the value of online supermarket Ocado in recent weeks means it is poised to become one of Britain’s top 100 stock market-listed companies along with gambling conglomerate GVC – the owner of Ladbrokes Coral – following the quarterly reshuffle of the FTSE 100 index.

But the threat of expulsion from the business elite hanging over Marks & Spencer appeared to have receded as closing share prices on Tuesday showed government outsourcing contractor G4S and healthcare firm Mediclinic were set to drop out of the FTSE 100.

Laith Khalaf, a senior analyst at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown, said: “Marks & Spencer looks like it’s avoided relegation from the FTSE 100 by the skin of its teeth.”

The London Stock Exchange oversees a reshuffle of the FTSE 100 index every three months, taking into account the rising fortunes of some companies and the deterioration in others.

Khalaf said that without a strong turnaround, M&S could still be heading out of the index later in the year.

“This is a stay of execution rather than a full pardon. M&S boss Steve Rowe is promising transformation, and has been candid in admitting it’s a lengthy road ahead. However the pace of disruptive technological change means making M&S special again is a moving target, and management are taking aim from a long way out.”

[diku] 29/5/2018 18:56

Computers trades just don't want this to stay above 300p...by coincidence it also hit the SMA 200 & it got slammed...maybe in sympathy with Dixons the retailer falling today...

[libertine] 29/5/2018 18:21

MKS still No 99 in FTSE 100 so safe.



99 MKS Marks & Spencer Group FTSE 100 298.00 4,841.

[knowing] 29/5/2018 15:43

Drop looks overdone

[countless] 29/5/2018 15:38

Now in - convinced myself this is not a dead duck.

[moorsie2] 29/5/2018 15:26

And access to a huge amount of pick up locations in towns

[countless] 29/5/2018 14:22

It makes sense for Amazon to consider M&S. They could turn around M&S distribution and week website easily. Their Whole Foods could breath new life into M&S food halls/shops and bring back the old wow factor M&S had. On the clothing side copy H&M buyers, who often get well known names to design bespoke lines and then sell more online received next day by their ever increasing prime customer base.

[philanderer] 29/5/2018 13:27

Looking like Mediclininc and G4S out , GVC and Ocado in.