Quadrise Share Discussion Threads

[owenski] 19/9/2011 16:18

Strange company Standard Life, always seem to buy at the higher points and then sell lower.

[targatarga] 19/9/2011 11:19

Feels like everybodies on holiday...

[wendsworth] 18/9/2011 11:54

Friday's trades are interesting diverging from the norm of 100k'ish to 17.4million. The various tranches appear to indicate someone is hoovering up and either taking or consilidating their position.

Interestingly in the case of the six takeover situations mentioned at my previous post there was an apparently inexplicable fall-back in the share price in the period prior followed by stock movements not dissimilar to that exhibited on Friday by QED.

Whatever...in my limited experience anything that diverges from the norm does so for a reason .

[wendsworth] 18/9/2011 11:54

Friday's trades are interesting diverging from the norm of 100k'ish to 17.4million. The various tranches appear to indicate someone is hoovering up and either taking or consilidating their position.

Interestingly in the case of the six takeover situations mentioned at my previous post there was an apparently inexplicable fall-back in the share price in the period prior followed by stock movements not dissimilar to that exhibited on Friday by QED.

Whatever...in my limited experience anything that diverges from the norm does so for a reason .

[wendsworth] 16/9/2011 16:19

RNS to follow?

I kept faith with albright and wilson, pilkington, abbey national , exel, xansa and c.saleveson...all of whom were undervalued companies that eventually succumbed to a bid.

QED is in the same vein and Laxey regard their stake in the company as one of their most sound investment opportunities. Who am I to doubt the quality of their research?

[targatarga] 16/9/2011 14:13

all the big trades are at 43.5... usually theres a small spread between buys and sells....

[cockneyrebel] 16/9/2011 13:18

the large trades going through are the sells to fill that 6m buy imo.

Interesting that there's such a large buyer about with a week or so to the pre-close trading update.

CR

[cockneyrebel] 16/9/2011 11:54

Pre-close trading update at th end of September last year.

CR

[targatarga] 16/9/2011 11:54

wendsworth - looks like someones rearranging the deckchairs...

[cockneyrebel] 16/9/2011 11:39

6m buy.

Laxey Partners buying again?

CR

[targatarga] 16/9/2011 11:11

slight blip on the volume chart.... imho

[scburbs] 15/9/2011 20:52

He would have cleaned up if he'd had his Rentokil earnings on State of Play each way! Rather better than City Link by all accounts.

[quepassa] 15/9/2011 16:28

Don't forget the £50,445 prize-moneys as well when Mr.Rucker's 28-1 outsider race-horse State of Play romped home 4th in the April 2011 Aintree Grand National.

Probably more fun than a Rentokil Board directorship though!!

ALL IMO. DYOR.

QP

[scburbs] 15/9/2011 15:24

He has to make do with a mere bagatelle at Rentokil (£55,000), hardly worth struggling in for the 10 board meetings at £5,500 a pop.

Edit: My mistake he went to 6 audit committee meetings as well, so really is starting to look cheap at just under £3,500 per meeting.

His only other current appointments (excluding the Crest one just announced) are 4 Lazard companies.

Main Lazard company (of which he is a director) is Lazard & Co Holdings Ltd in which he is CEO. Highest paid director got £4.87m in 2010 (£1.92m in 2009) this included an exceptional payment on an incentive scheme. Not certain whether the he was the highest paid director or not.

[davidosh] 15/9/2011 15:01

Any ideas how much the other two part time roles pay out ?

[scburbs] 15/9/2011 14:58

QED only give him £200k a year for a part time role, he has to make a living!!

[davidosh] 15/9/2011 14:49

How many of these non exec roles does he have ?

Rentokil
Quintain
Crest Nicholson

What about the day job at Lazards ? William Rucker (46) is Chief Executive of Lazard London. He is also Deputy Chief Executive of European Investment Banking and a Deputy Chairman of the worldwide firm. (from his appointment RNS)

[targatarga] 15/9/2011 14:37

wendsworth - feels exactly the same at cad... Huge potential but few trades... gla

[wendsworth] 15/9/2011 14:33

A bid is coming!

[quepassa] 15/9/2011 13:11

You'd think Rucker would have enough on his plate as chairman of one property company like Quintain without taking on another chairmanship at Crest Nicholson:-




ALL IMO. DYOR.

QP

[targatarga] 15/9/2011 12:09

this is getting tiresome, nearly all of my stocks today are down or going sideways......

[wendsworth] 14/9/2011 11:54

Looks like the share price is going to move back to the 45 to 50p range pretty quickly.