Norman Broadbent Share Discussion Threads

[battlebus2] 25/5/2021 10:42

Yes, thought it was a misprint?

[twodegrees] 25/5/2021 10:15

Good posts battlebus2 and gleach23. Hopefully the excellent work the company did to keep things stable during the past year will bear fruit as we move along....many many years have I waited and held on....with a huge loss on paper, maybe the turning point is upon us.

Did either of you notice the strange small buy yesterday at 7.8p

[gleach23] 25/5/2021 09:51

Hopefully this doesn't put the mockers on it but it is pleasing to note such an apparent shortage of stock available to buy. Hopefully the overhang that has seen us below 10p for the last 2 years may have cleared which should mean a swift move back over 10p imo.

Just 1k available to buy online all day yesterday and it's the same today despite the market quoted share price having improved to 6.5-7.5. Meanwhile there's good demand on the Bid for decent quantity well inside the spread @ 6.78p currently.

[battlebus2] 24/5/2021 13:13

A commendable performance from #NBB in 2020 as they negotiated through Covid. NFI down 18% though they managed to keep EBITDA positive. Hopefully they can begin to scale up over the rest of 2021 alongside the economy reopening

[twodegrees] 13/5/2021 15:17

Did Norman Broadbent not open an office in Manchester.

[twodegrees] 13/5/2021 15:16

Recruitment platform, Hiring Hub, has appointed industry veteren Peter Searle as Chairman.

With over 30 years’ experience in the recruitment sector, Searle was the CEO of Adecco (UK & Ireland) for more than ten years, and Spring Group in between 2006 and 2009.

In addition to Hiring Hub, Searle is the Executive Chairman of Airswift and a Non-Executive Director of fellow Manchester-based recruitment tech company, Broadstone.

Hiring Hub is ranked among the UK’s top companies in the recruitment sector by independent review site Trustpilot. The marketplace is used by over 500 employers, including Deliveroo, Dyson and SSE, who use Hiring Hub’s network of vetted, rated and reviewed recruitment agencies to find quality candidates for hard-to-fill roles.

Based in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, Hiring Hub raised a further round of investment from existing investors Maven Capital Partners, VentureFounders, and Manchester Tech Trust Angels late last year, and is led by Founder and CEO, Simon Swan.

Swan said: “Peter is excited by our vision to place transparency and trust at the heart of recruitment. Our goal has always been to champion the value of recruitment agencies while using technology to facilitate better relationships between them and employers. Peter is right behind our mission, validating Hiring Hub’s ambition to make people feel good about recruitment.”

“Peter’s knowledge of both the recruitment industry and scaling companies is exceptional,” continued Swan. “He joins Hiring Hub at an exciting time. It has weathered the pandemic well and Peter supports the company’s plan to expand its products and services to further grow what is an enviable client base and recruiter community, capitalising on employers’ shift to web-based platforms.”

Searle, joins former N Brown boss Angela Luger and the ex-MD of Lorien PLC, Ian Brookes, on Hiring Hub’s Board as the company looks to use the recruitment sector’s Covid-accelerated transition to cloud-based recruitment platforms to its advantage.

[battlebus2] 13/5/2021 12:25

Yep. 👍

[gleach23] 13/5/2021 11:06

More positive today twodegrees...'industry veteran' Peter Searle has picked up 6%

[twodegrees] 12/5/2021 11:26

2 RNS in one morning and both reporting %age sells....not looking good.

[twodegrees] 23/4/2021 19:01

battlebus2, are you a director in disguise.

[battlebus2] 22/4/2021 09:11

I think Mike has this company on a good path and if it wasn’t for Covid we would be a lot higher today. Im expecting news on M&A or atleast increasing teams for the creation of new hubs in the not too distant future.

[twodegrees] 21/4/2021 20:12

battlebus2, I love your optimism, but buyers get sucked in everytime as it rises and just as quick the mm's walk it back down, been doing this for years, nothing seems to be able to sustain the share price. Not even the past good results.

[battlebus2] 19/4/2021 08:21

A bit of interest this morning with a 100k buy at 6.35.

[battlebus2] 14/4/2021 14:08

It’s on the right trajectory and should continue higher.

[twodegrees] 14/4/2021 13:12

Typical, a few more buys, then as usual , next day...down it goes.

[battlebus2] 14/4/2021 08:48

Haha. Maybe 🤔

[twodegrees] 13/4/2021 16:49

still need 21p to break even. :

[battlebus2] 13/4/2021 15:45

Yes a good day, really no reason why we aren’t trading at 10p again imv.

[escapetohome] 13/4/2021 14:48

Nice movement up today.

Very pleasing

[gleach23] 12/4/2021 13:53

Agree twodegrees. I noticed there were just 50k available to buy @ 6.25 earlier. Although not intending to top up I was very tempted but talked myself out of it due to the underlying spread which at the time was 5.15-6.25 IIRC.

I also figured results are due in April so would wait for those before any top up.

[twodegrees] 12/4/2021 12:43

The market spread is far too wide. Why do the market makers not close the gap to encourage trading.

[battlebus2] 29/3/2021 22:04

FY20E forecast today incorporates recent RNS guidance re NFI. We also look at potential scenarios for FY21E in the £0.3-£0.5m EBITDA range, always subject to the Covid / lockdown backdrop, and for FY2022E of around £0.8 to £1.2m.

So we have a market cap of 3 million and a potential EBITDA of 1 million.

[twodegrees] 29/3/2021 12:19

battlebus2 do you have a link just in case i have missed it, thinking of averaging down a bit more

[battlebus2] 27/3/2021 10:31

Hopefully you will have read the latest broker note, makes these look incredible value going forward if their scenarios ( not forecasts) are anything to go buy.