Marston's Share Price (MARS)

Share Name	Share Symbol	Market	Type	Share ISIN	Share Description
Marston's Plc	LSE:MARS	London	Ordinary Share	GB00B1JQDM80	ORD 7.375P

	Price Change	% Change	Share Price	Shares Traded	Last Trade
	-0.40	-0.33%	121.10	1,761,755	16:35:15

Bid Price		Offer Price	High Price	Low Price	Open Price
121.20		121.40	122.70	120.10	122.40

Industry Sector	Turnover (m)	Profit (m)	EPS - Basic	PE Ratio	Market Cap (m)
Travel & Leisure	1,141.30	54.30	7.10	17.1	768

Last Trade Time	Trade Type	Trade Size	Trade Price	Currency
17:20:21	O	10,018	121.10	GBX

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Date	Time	Source	Headline
16/10/2019	08:05	ALNCF	Alliance News Flash Headline
15/10/2019	09:38	ALNC	Marston's Delivers Sales Growth As Strong Drinks Offset Weaker Food
15/10/2019	07:00	UKREG	Marston's PLC Year End Trading Update
01/10/2019	10:05	UKREG	Marston's PLC Total Voting Rights
02/9/2019	14:15	UKREG	Marston's PLC Total Voting Rights
29/7/2019	10:52	ALNC	Marston's Names Two New Board Members As Non-Executive Rowland Leaves
29/7/2019	07:01	UKREG	Marston's PLC Board Changes
24/7/2019	09:23	ALNC	Marston's Posts Modest Growth Year-On-Year But Recent Pub Sales Fall
24/7/2019	07:00	UKREG	Marston's PLC Trading Update
10/7/2019	11:15	UKREG	Marston's PLC Block listing Interim Review

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Date	Time	Title	Posts
17/10/2019	11:00	Marstons...time to buy???	3,222
15/10/2019	15:40	Marstons - Needs Shaking Up !	1,440
21/7/2018	11:24	Is there Life on MARS?	91
16/8/2017	15:56	Is the brewery purchase toxic. Was always a good plodder before?	1
24/5/2008	16:48	MARS - The Iceman Cometh	3

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Trade Time	Trade Price	Trade Size	Trade Value	Trade Type
16:21:19	121.10	10,018	12,131.80	O
16:10:01	121.49	31,806	38,639.84	O
16:03:18	121.11	946	1,145.66	O
15:35:16	121.10	3,264	3,952.70	AT
15:35:15	121.10	707,366	856,620.23	UT

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22/10/2019 09:20	Marston's Daily Update: Marston's Plc is listed in the Travel & Leisure sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker MARS. The last closing price for Marston's was 121.50p. Marston's Plc has a 4 week average price of 109.20p and a 12 week average price of 103.10p. The 1 year high share price is 131.70p while the 1 year low share price is currently 89.70p. There are currently 633,991,930 shares in issue and the average daily traded volume is 3,568,450 shares. The market capitalisation of Marston's Plc is £767,764,227.23. Read Full Thread Reply
21/8/2019 14:53	cc2014: #1426 MARS have said their profitability is largely independent of Brexit. However, if Brexit is sorted currencies will rally 15% at least so it's 15% cheaper to buy it now than wait. Of course it could all go the other way. I have been mulling over what to do this morning and have concluded a share price of 122p is not enough to incentivise me to sell part of my holding. It's about a 25% rise on my entry point and I'm getting the dividends as well but I believe the share price was bashed down below a reasonable level and should never have reached 100p. To make me sell I'm going to need something better as I'm happy enough holding and MARS helps me diversify my portfolio. We'll see what happens from here. I'm inclined to think it will consolidate in this area and may spend some time trying to break free of the chart point of 125p. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
20/8/2019 15:48	lindowcross: Take overs provide an electric jolt of short-term satisfaction, and an attractive capital gain. But the predator offers a premium for a reason: most likely that there is long-term value in the company which is not reflected its market price. So with a company like this although I might inwardly grumble about the share price, I'd prefer it to remain a quoted company paying a decent dividend rather than succumb to a takeover by a private purchaser. That way one hopes the true value will eventually become reflected in the market price so that share holders benefit, not the predator. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
20/8/2019 15:29	cc2014: I am little surprised this hasn't risen further given GNK and previously EI. and FST. We haven't even managed to claw our way to 125 which was the share price before the results. The results to remind did show slow progress in profitabililty the directors committed to a re-phasing of the debt repayments to make progress quicker from the outset. To be sure Marstons estate doesn't have the potential in inner London for re-use that GNK's does but I would have thought the takeover potential puts further support under the share price in addition to the yield and longer term plans to pay down the debt. I guess I'm happy to be patient, collect the dividend and wait. But I'm much rather a takeout at a higher price. Fingers crossed. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
27/6/2019 13:04	cc2014: I'm staying in. The updates from the sectors and GNK's results today suggest to me the sector in general is doing well and it's alot easier to make money when your competitors are making money. I understand no more today why the share price is now 117 than it was when the share price was sub 100. Nothing seems to have fundamentally changed other than interest rates are going to stay lower for lower which of course assists with getting debt down. Increasing profits would also suggest no more NAV writedowns. Perhaps the city boys have realised running the food menu in a pub is completely different than Jamie's or Bryon and the suggested collpase in custom isn't occurring. I dunno, but what I do know is to run you winners and stay on the trend. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
10/6/2019 06:25	lukmanpatel: Another troll by the username lsehotdealz haha, share price is stagnant and there’s talks of fundraise at 10p on that board lol desperation has lead to going round posting on different board to prevent share price from dropping, usually ud stay quiet and average down and accumulate if you see huge potential lmaoo he’s spamming all the boards Read Full Thread Follow Reply
22/2/2019 12:46	illiswilgig: Hmm. Fullers. Yes, good points. As a (very small) shareholder in Fuller's for many years I see that Fuller trapped themselves on the Griffin Brewery site. Fullers London estate of pubs and hotels has prospered and grown - alongside a lot of London based businesses. Fullers shares are highly rated - historically between 15x and 18x earnings. That rating expects a lot of growth. The growth can be attained through investing in the pubs and hotels - but the brewery also needs investment to grow. It's a masterpiece of efficiency on its 1845 Chiswick site but it can't expand. Fuller's can't afford to invest in both their London estate and a new brewery site. Continuing to try to do both will result in a share price fall as sufficient growth fails to materialise. They must have been under a lot of pressure to find a way out. Sad but true. Also Fullers have a great reputation as brewers - but they have only ever operated one brewery. They have no experience in operating or building other breweries. So that would be quite a big risk. Asahi have offered them a great way out. A sky-high price which reflects the location and value of the site rather than that of the brewery by brewing the London Pride brand globally - and Asahi take on the risks and investment associated with brewing at other sites for expansion. What this means for the griffin brewery in the long term - who knows? But I doubt you could hope for a better longterm owner than Asahi? If somebody offered Marston's £250m (or more given the size and capacity of their breweries in comparison) for the Burton or Bedford sites maybe they would take it? But nobody will, the Bedford brewery and business only cost Marston's £55m, and the Marstons estate with it's outside of London and the Southeast locations don't have the same growth prospects as Fullers London Estate. Marstons is a very different business, in location, scale and prospects. There is a reason why Marstons is on a multiple of 7x and Fullers on 17x. Marstons pays a dividend of 8% and Fullers 2%. Very different businesses with very different markets and opportunities. Selling Marstons breweries won't rerate it to 17x earnings. Sadly. My crystal ball is currently not operational so I can't say which one is the better investment. I have a larger holding in MARS than I do in FSTA partly due to topping up at recent lows. Neither holding is large in my portfolio. It will be interesting to see how it works out, apologies for the long ramble, cheers Read Full Thread Follow Reply
05/10/2018 06:41	janekane: O yes it is Marstons Key Figures (at previous day's close) Market Cap. 627.30 m Shares In Issue 633.96 m Prev. Close 100.10 PE Ratio 6.97 Dividend Yield 7.58 % EPS - basic 14.20 p Dividend PS 7.50 p Dividend Cover 1.89 Cash Flow PS 33.69 p Return On Equity (ROE) 9.09 % Operating Margin 10.11 % PEG Factor 0.59 EPS Growth Rate 11.81 % Dividends PS Growth Rate 2.74 % Net Debt 1,889.40 m Gross Gearing 68.91 % Quick Assets 286.30 m Net Working Capital -113.90 m Intangibles / Fixed Assets 11.16 % Turnover PS 156.51 p Pre-Tax Profit PS 15.82 p Retained Profit PS 6.40 p Cash PS 27.54 p Net Cash PS -41.93 p Net Tangible Asset Value PS * 99.93 p Net Asset Value PS 146.92 p Spread 0.20 (0.20%) * Calculation based on Ordinary Capital figure as contained in last annual report, and the most recent shares in issue figure. Therefore the ratio might be exposed to inaccuracies. Marstons Balance Sheet LSE:MARS:Liabilities+EQLSE:MARS:Assets For Sector Balance Sheet comparisons Click here Share Price Performance Sample Period † High Low 1 week 101.00 98.25 4 weeks 102.60 90.10 12 weeks 102.60 89.20 1 year 121.30 89.20 Share Price Chart (5 years) Marstons Historic Returns Period † Open Change % Open Avg. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
06/8/2018 21:58	quady: Jeffian - you've been on this share since the dawn of time, but I disagree so please enlighten me. The five year chart has Marstons hovering around the 140p up to the equity placing at just over 130p after costs. In the four years to the placing EPS rose sluggishly but reasonably. I doubt Mars was seen as a growth share in that time. In that period debt:eps remained roughly flat no? So far I can't see reason for a share price slump. Charles Wells has been EPS flat but improved debt:profit. I just can't see anything Marstons has done in the last 18 months which should've knocked off a third of the share price. I agree with Janekane that the franchise model makes the books more difficult to follow, but Mars is (IMHO) not cooking the books. The only thing I've noticed over the last year is Mars falls with GNK but either doesn't or only slightly rises with it. From where I'm sitting GNK has had a bad aquistition and Marstons a probably slightly helpful one. That is said drinking a bottle of McEwans Champion. I disagree that Marstons can't compete on price. Hobgoblin at £1.25, Banks is sold for under a quid. This Champion gets hit my minimum pricing in Scotland. One of the positives I see is Mars being able to raise margin in supermarkets over time a bit. I think the brand portfolio can be better used. Try the American Pale Mars does for Sainsbury's Taste the Difference on contract. They can do the quality for craft, just needs sticking in a can. The main fail of the CW acquisition, the failed canning line.... yet the market didn't react when that was made public. Odd. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
04/7/2018 23:07	quady: QP - I have checked and Marstons peaked at about 330p in Feb 2007 on a rebated basic given the share split and rights issue, but that's not so material to your point. In short, I don't know why the slump, I wasn't invested then. But I can give some clues which others may pick up on to save me going into the accounts. By Nov 2008 the share price was at 60p. Between those two dates Marstons put in place their long term debt financing. Turnover is now about 40% higher than it was at peak share price, but profit flat between now and then. The dividend at the share price peak was about 2.7%, but payments in pence per share terms a bit higher than today. From the looks of it, it was misspriced in 2007. I think it's misspriced today, which is why I hold it. Beer might be in decline as a category, doesn't mean there isn't profit to be had. I also invest in BrewDog who's share valuation tragectory looks more like Amazon than Marstons. I doubt that in my lifetime beer will stop being sold, people stop going to restaunts and hotels. What I do doubt are FANG valuations being realistic. Anyway, Marstons is more of a bet on real estate and finance as it is beer. I'd be interested in others on here wisedom on why the share price fell so hard and hasn't bounced back. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
04/7/2018 20:23	illiswilgig: Hello QP, you make some very valid points. I've not checked that far back - but I assume you are correct and MARS share price in 2007 was 470p! Sad for anyone who has held since then. So to answer your question I expect that MARS is making a lot less profit today than it was 10 years ago. Hence the shareprice is a lot lower. It is also possible, indeed probable, that MARS is rated much lower today than a decade ago, perhaps in the expectation that profits will continue to fall. Probably a bit of both, less profit and lower rating = 100p shareprice today. The question is not what happened in the last decade - it's what will happen in the next decade. At least that is the basis upon which I invest. You are certainly correct about the macrotrends of online versus highstreet retailing and about the rate of closures of pubs. Though the next decade leading to all pubs being closed is about as likely as MARS shareprice falling by another 370p? But everything has a value - even if its a very low one? So after Amazon's meteoric shareprice rise and Marston's shareprice plummet which shareprice is closer the companies intrinsic value? It's interesting to note that Amazons profitability is actually quite low. It makes a 3% margin, 51bn sales and 1.6bn profit (Q1 2018) whereas Marston's has a 10% margin, 1080M sales 107M profit. Expectations of future profitability at Amazon are incredibly high the shareprice is 250 times current earnings - whereas Marstons is only 7. So Marstons is certainly valued very low - is it low enough? You are right about the rate of pub closures. But I think its very healthy, if only the restaurant sector had been shutting as many restaurants they might not be going bust quite so often! Over the last 6 years or so 60800 pubs in the UK have reduced by 10000, about an 18% decline? If Marstons is an average estate I'd expect to see a similar rate of decline of a few percent annually? So I've had a look and the answer is not simple. It appears that Marstons had an estate of around 2000 pubs a few years ago and now its 1568. But they sold 388 pubs for £144million and another 'portfolio' of 202 pubs. So as well as selling pubs they've also been opening pubs to end up with 1568 today. Of course selling pubs is about as good as closing them down if you don't get much cash for them. But I notice in the results to October 2014 they actually booked a surplus against the disposals of £37.5m ie they disposed of the pubs for more than their asset value on the books. That's a really key point. As well as a lowly rating on its profits and a reasonable margin it appears that Marstons pubs might actually be worth more disposed of than they are held on the balance sheet. So although pubs are shutting down - it appears that it might be because the pubs are worth more closed and sold on than operating as pubs? Not that I am promoting Marstons should sell off all its pubs and return the profits to shareholders, although others might do - but if they did so in an orderly fashion the likelihood is that I'd get back more than my shares are currently worth. (IMHO) The net asset value of the estate and the dividend cover make it likely that Martsons shareprice will not fall significantly in the future, so its a low risk investment for me - with a 7% return and the possibility of capital appreciation. I will leave my take on the new build pubs, lodges the 4000 room target and the breweries for another day. I think I will be reaching for the buy button again tomorrow, If you were hoping to convince me not to buy MARS then I am afraid you've been counterproductive QP - but thanks all the same, Cheers indeed, Illis Read Full Thread Follow Reply

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