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SCO Scotty Grp

0.45
0.00 (0.00%)
26 Apr 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Stock Type
Scotty Grp SCO London Ordinary Share
  Price Change Price Change % Share Price Last Trade
0.00 0.00% 0.45 01:00:00
Open Price Low Price High Price Close Price Previous Close
0.45 0.45
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Scotty Group SCO Dividends History

No dividends issued between 28 Apr 2014 and 28 Apr 2024

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Posted at 08/7/2020 19:25 by ladybird1
Apsoo I've been trying to contact SCO to find out what's happening on repayment. Your note suggests you have had definite news from them. Is that so, please?

Thanks.
Posted at 03/1/2016 09:50 by plasybryn
I see Bryan Smart is now involved with a successful automotive engineering Co. called AB Dynamics (ABDP)
Growing strongly with nice balance sheet, lots of cash, dividend and prime mover has lots of skin in the game.
Worth a look IMO.
Posted at 21/8/2015 11:09 by apsoo
Just speaking to Barclays, re: International Traders Account. They are telling me they do not trade on the third tier in Austria & therefore would not deal in SCO.
PS: Minerve...need not comment...I have you on filter!!
Posted at 10/7/2015 10:21 by apsoo
You don't know me or my skills from Adam Minerve!
And by the way I do not need to sell my SCO shares to be able to buy my kids some ice-cream!!!
I can actually afford to use the certificate as bog roll....like I said yesterday, definitely no sleep lost over it....yet I get the distinct impression you are very bitter over Motion Media/Scotty.....wonder why !!!
Posted at 09/7/2015 10:22 by minerve
Re-listing on AIM! LOL

Marconi, Enron and Worldcom have a greater chance.

The fact the website isn't updated tells you all you need to know about how this company views external shareholders. A very easy, cheap means of communicating with the outside world and there we have Scotty who couldn't be bothered. It is a potential avenue for new sales if managed and run properly. I see local family businesses run better websites.

Dividend? Now, this is getting ridiculous.

What is your continual obsession with this pathetic company? If you like industrial, buy something proper like BAE or RR. You are not going to become millionaires through this stock. I really struggle very hard to see what attracts you here. Honestly, it must be an anal OCD type attraction.

IMHO & DYOR
Posted at 09/7/2015 09:02 by moving up
Recent orders seem particularly positive APSOO, and profits means dividend could be not far away!!my broker has told me it has been known if contracts keep coming may well relist back on AIM market at some point!!
moving up
Posted at 05/6/2015 14:30 by apsoo
Minerve, what is it with you ? Why does it concern you how long it has taken me to come to any sort of conclusion ? You're obviously hung up over summat when it comes to SCO. Just do me a favour & mind your own business and refrain from posting to any of my comments.
Posted at 17/2/2015 11:41 by apsoo
Can anyone help ?Need to know which Barclays account trades SCO as when I rang them last week they said they do not trade on the third tier of the Austrian market ?Or is their any other broker who I could use ?Many thanks in anticipation ?
Posted at 16/4/2014 19:55 by blueforce
Was just checking through stocks i once owned and it was 6 years to this very day that i sold out of SCO (at a loss). Had a quick look through a few of the most recent posts and saw a a couple of familiar names: Share Shark and ST2. Hope you are all well and invested in better stocks. But what happened to the likes of: Pork Belly, Golden Goose, uppompeii, Doctor 69 ............... I'm feeling quite nostalgic. Still maybe I get to sound the last post.
Posted at 04/10/2011 15:03 by share_shark
Eurozone crisis presents excellent buying opportunities
This article was produced by our sister publication Money Observer. By Stephanie Butcher | Tue, 04/10/2011 - 12:16

Over the summer the mood of investors changed, driven by economic data coming from the United States; in particular a very weak Philadelphia Fed index followed by soft US ISM manufacturing numbers.

This, in turn, led to a sharp sell-off in European stockmarkets, particularly in the financial and cyclical sectors. The data was unhelpful for a eurozone area desperately in need of growth, and prompted some commentators to speculate we may be heading for a double-dip recession and a return to the financially-induced crisis of 2008-2009.

Slow growth but no 'double dip'

While our outlook is for slow growth, there are several reasons why we do not believe we will return to a recession as severe as 2008-9. Back then, the biggest negative for GDP growth was the running down of surplus inventory levels which reached their peak in 2009. This time, the current level of company inventories is much lower and firms don't have to cut back excess stock levels in the face of weakening demand.

The other clear difference is the huge inroads made by the banking sector in dramatically reducing debt; since in the first quarter of 2008 banks raised the best part of $385 billion (£250 billion) of capital in the euro area.

Apart from fears of a 'double dip' recession, markets are concerned about the state of public sector finances. The levels of government debt in Spain, Italy and France have come under the spotlight recently, while the UK and Germany seem to have come under less scrutiny. This to us is an anomaly, especially if debt as a percentage of GDP in the UK and US is compared with that of Spain.

As a result, we feel the valuation discrepancy between eurozone markets and some of the other Western developed markets is overdone. In terms of lending growth, this is already at very low levels so given the slow growth environment we would not expect to see a repeat of what happened in 2008.

What are equity markets discounting?

While free cashflow remains strong and returns on equity (RoE) are looking healthy, amongst the key valuation measures we use - price earnings (p/e) and price to book (p/b) ratios - these are returning to 2008/2009 levels.

The key question is: are these valuations low enough? Clearly, there is a risk of more earnings downgrades to come. Looking at consensus numbers, while analysts have cut their current year estimates, some are still resolutely holding earnings growth forecasts at around 12% for 2012, which assumes quite a 'normal' environment.

That being said, recent work by Morgan Stanley states that if the right p/e for a market is around 10 times, that would imply negative earnings growth of around 6% which may be realistic but, we believe, is already discounted in valuations. Our view is the stockmarket does not need to take another lurch downwards to take account of the lower earnings growth.

At a stock level, we have studied the enterprise value to sales ratio which is a good way of ironing out market volatility and compared this measure with 2008 levels. LVMH, Atlas Copco and SKF - consumer or industrial cyclicals - are well above their 2008 levels which, to us, feels risky. Even with a company like Nestlé in the food and beverage sector, investors are paying 40% more on an EV/sales basis than in 2008.

On the other hand UPM-Kymmene, Ahold, Ericsson, Vivendi and Novartis are those companies where, if anything, fundamentals have improved over the last few years, and yet are trading at, or below, 2008 levels in terms of enterprise value versus sales. As a result, we feel very comfortable owning these types of companies.

The other measure we pay close attention to is the difference between dividend yields and corporate bond yields which, if anything has become more extreme. Like us, our bond team believes the current gap looks like an anomaly and is really suggesting dividends are stressed.

When we meet companies, however, particularly in some of the sectors where we are very overweight, such as healthcare, it feels as though the dividend stories are getting stronger. In terms of both cashflow and payout ratios, free cashflow remains very strong and payout ratios are generally low compared with historical levels. The discussions we are currently having with companies are more about whether it is time to be upping those payout ratios - certainly amongst the big-dividend stocks.

How is the fund positioned? Our likes and dislikes

To us, healthcare is still the standout value sector. Recent results from Novartis and Roche came in above forecasts and, in our view, free cashflow, dividend yields and payout ratios are moving higher. We remain very comfortable with both companies which are by far our largest individual stock holdings and sector weights.

This is still a sector where we are paying ten times in terms of p/e for dividend yields that are in excess of five% and, in the case of Roche and Novartis, these companies are funding themselves much more cheaply than most governments. We also hold Sanofi and recently added Bayer in the same sector.

At the moment, it looks controversial to be overweight in financials and it is important to make a distinction between the banking sector where we are still underweight and the insurance sector where we feel much more comfortable, particularly in those companies involved in home and motor insurance.

Companies which we hold and which have done well on an absolute not just a relative basis include Trygg-Hansa and FBD Group. We have also been adding to insurers hit hard by banking sentiment such as Zurich Insurance, which is currently yielding 8-9% in Swiss francs. This looks anomalous to us.

Just to reiterate, we are avoiding food and beverage producers, which look expensive in our opinion, and companies which have missed their profit forecasts recently such as Carlsberg and Heineken and where there have been quite sharp sell-offs, reinforce our view.

Another area we are avoiding is the utility sector. We keep an eye on utilities because, historically, they have always been a good source of dividend income.

This has not been the case this time round however.

Free cash flow barely covers dividend yield, which to us is always something of a warning. E.ON and RWE have clearly not been helped by the nuclear tragedy in Japan and the decision of the German government to close its nuclear capability. Having said that, share prices have fallen a long way and are worth keeping an eye on in our view. If we see any evidence where dividend yields might be better covered, we might reconsider our position but the time is not yet right.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we feel that European equities as an asset class are offering historically low valuations which are rarely seen. The evidence that we have is that corporate Europe is in very good shape. The quality of management is extremely high, and many companies have good exposure to global growth, for example Asia and Latin America.

If we can steer ourselves away from media hype, the valuations being offered today are a 'one-off', in our view. To that end, we remain very supportive of equities and of European equities in particular.

Stephanie Butcher is European equity income fund manager at Invesco Perpetual.

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