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SVT Severn Trent Plc

2,608.00
13.00 (0.50%)
13 Dec 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Severn Trent Plc LSE:SVT London Ordinary Share GB00B1FH8J72 ORD 97 17/19P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  13.00 0.50% 2,608.00 220,539 16:35:14
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
2,611.00 2,613.00 2,613.00 2,589.00 2,597.00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Water Supply 2.35B 140.2M 0.4671 55.94 7.79B
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
16:35:14 UT 146,299 2,608.00 GBX

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Posted at 15/12/2024 08:20 by Severn Trent Daily Update
Severn Trent Plc is listed in the Water Supply sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker SVT. The last closing price for Severn Trent was 2,595p.
Severn Trent currently has 300,175,103 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Severn Trent is £7,843,575,441.
Severn Trent has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 55.94.
This morning SVT shares opened at 2,597p
Posted at 10/12/2024 11:27 by wreckingball
‘The sores on the fish are nasty’

What’s behind the changes in the River Severn?

Faced with a dearth of data on the impact of local mega farms, volunteers have shown sewage pollution has soared

UK’s intensive farming hotspots have 79 times more chickens than people, data shows

Sandra Laville
Tue 19 Nov 2024 06.00 GMT
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The sores were unlike anything veteran anglers had seen before. Black, swollen and blister-like, they started appearing on fish being caught in the River Severn in early summer.

For anglers who spend many hours on the banks of the Severn around Shrewsbury, the blistering skin was yet another warning that the river, and its wildlife and habitats, are suffering.

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Anglers have been noticing strange blistering on fish in the Severn. Photograph: Handout
Phil O’Callaghan, an angler, noticed the blisters on the first day of the season as he fished the Severn at Bicton Heath, north-west of Shrewsbury, this summer. “I have seen these sores in person and they look really nasty.

An angler fishes on the River Derwent near Bakewell
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“I am not a scientist, I am just someone who has spent my life on the river, as an angler, a canoeist and a swimmer. I have seen it change for the worse; the river doesn’t clear any more, you cannot see the gravel, there is no weed, and at the near margins the bottom is covered in a horrible, black, smelly silt. These sores are just the latest thing we are seeing, and they are another cause for serious concern.”

O’Callaghan is one of an army of anglers, swimmers and river lovers who are working together in an attempt to stop the decline of the Severn. They have seen the devastating decline of the neighbouring Wye and they are trying to stop the same fate happening to the Severn as it, like the Wye, is subjected to excessive nutrient pollution from intensive poultry farming and record levels of raw sewage discharges from Severn Trent facilities.

Over the last two years, O’Callaghan has joined 68 other anglers along the river who dedicate hundreds of hours to monitoring the water. They have taken more than 970 samples from 70 sites to record phosphate, nitrate, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, ammonia and temperature, which they send to Bristol University for analysis. Images of the sores on fish have been sent to the Environment Agency.

Results of the Angling Trust’s 2024 water-quality monitoring report on the Severn have been shared with the Guardian. Glyn Marshall, who coordinates the monitoring, said: “The state of water in the catchment has not improved. If anything, it has got worse.

“My most recent phosphate sample in Worcester was one of the highest I have recorded. When there are periods of dry hot weather, I can see the algae blooms in the river and the bed of the river is still covered in the horrible brown gunge. The biodiversity of all the waterways is being totally compromised and we need to make sure that the health of the rivers and streams in the Severn catchment is improved for future generations.”

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A demonstrator taking part in the March for Clean Water – demanding that Labour delivers legislation that will end pollution of rivers, waterways, seas and reservoirs – on 3 November. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Analysis of the results from 52 sites for the report shows 61.5% had phosphate levels above the upper limit in the EU-derived Water Framework directive, part of Environment Agency regulations, compared with 42% in 2022-23.

Thirty-one areas, or almost 60%, had a mean average for nitrate exceeding 5ppm (parts per million) – considered the acceptable upper limit – an increase from 35% in 2022-23.

A ‘bathing is not advised’ sign by the River Wharfe in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
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High levels of phosphate and nitrate pollute rivers. This triggers eutrophication, where the excessive plant and algal growth creates high levels of bacteria which reduces oxygen levels and kills plants and wildlife. Sewage pollution and agricultural runoff are both causes, their impacts varying from urban to rural areas.

On the Severn, sewage pollution has soared. In the three years to 2023, there were 53,072 discharges of raw sewage into the river, more than 48 each day, according to data compiled by the trust. Their duration was 429,365 hours, more than 392 hours a day.

In more rural areas, it is agricultural runoff from intensive farming that is considered to make up 70% of the excess phosphate going into the river.

Alison Caffyn, who lives in Shropshire, is a member of the volunteer army attempting to protect the Severn. She has become an expert in intensive poultry units (IPUs) after discovering a dearth of data on the impact of mega farms in the Severn valley.

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“Over the years, intensive poultry units were cropping up all over Herefordshire and Shropshire and I realised there was nothing known about the issue and indeed very little research had been done, in the UK at least, about the wider impacts of intensive livestock units,” she said.

Caffyn spent years researching the units for a PhD, which saw her trawling back through Shropshire council planning records and then doing the same to track the scale of IPUs in Herefordshire, cross-referencing with satellite imagery and Environment Agency permit data.

When she turned to examine documents held by Powys council – to create a dataset for the main three counties in the Severn and Wye valleys – she discovered other researchers were doing similar work. Dr Christine Hugh-Jones and Margaret Tregear, both members of the council for the protection of rural Wales, had also been head down in planning records going back several years.


When the three women combined their research, they created an unprecedented and comprehensive dataset on the number of chickens being housed in industrial-style units in the three counties across the Severn and Wye valleys, which they update regularly. The latest data, shared with the Guardian, reveals more than 51m chickens are housed at any one time in intensive poultry units in Powys, Herefordshire and Shropshire.

Caffyn is using her research to bring a judicial review against Shropshire council’s decision to grant planning permission to another intensive poultry unit, housing 230,000 birds on nine hectares of land at Felton Butler, north of Shrewsbury.

The new intensive unit is 400 metres from an existing IPU, which appears to be in breach of Defra biosecurity regulations that there should be a 3km buffer zone between high-density poultry units.

Shropshire council approved the planning permission after the applicants promised they would transfer the manure to a third-party anaerobic digestion unit. But Caffyn says the processing of manure at an off-site anaerobic digestion unit will not cut nitrate and phosphate groundwater pollution. She points to research which says the digestate still contains all the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium which was in the manure, and will have a negative impact when it is spread on farmland.

“We feel enough is enough. We simply cannot allow the creation of more of these giant clusters of polluting poultry units or, before we know it, the River Severn will be suffering the same pollution load as the neighbouring Wye,” she said.

Severn Trent said it had started a £450m programme to cut spills from storm overflows into the river, which was progressing at pace.

Neerja Upadhyay, head of river health enhancement at Severn Trent, said: “Since kicking off only a few months ago, our teams have been making some radical improvements that we’re already seeing benefits from.

“Increased storage on sites, repurposing existing parts of the network, installing valves and making network enhancements is all helping us make progress to reduce spills and improve river health, which is exactly what we and our customers want.”
Posted at 10/12/2024 10:27 by yump
Whatever you think of SVT, that program was amateurish at best, pandering to populist ignorance.

The balance sheet stuff is accounting and nothing to do with dividends, which are a cashflow item.

Yet again shareholders are presented as some sort of greedy problem, by people who presumably benefit from pensions, but have no clue about how their pension savings earn income.

That is not unique to SVT - “billions given to shareholders” is a populist mantra.

I wonder if Sharkey knows.
Posted at 10/12/2024 09:58 by wreckingball
In one moment saying the Panorama report puts a lens over what is already in the public domain. In the next breath stating SVT takes legal action for it.

You're not the brightest spark are you?
Posted at 10/12/2024 09:23 by pander45
Could it be the BBC has revealed a supposed scandal that was actually completely transparent and investors knew existed? Shock horror! Reporting at its finest. Embarrassing. I hope SVT take legal action.
Posted at 09/12/2024 18:23 by wreckingball
Time to hack this companies share price back down.

You've been warned.
Posted at 08/10/2024 19:33 by pander45
Not SVT, top performer.
Posted at 23/7/2024 07:43 by wreckingball
growthpotential - you have already shown this thread that you are completely out of your depth and more than likely swimming with open wounds.

I suggest you look at continental Europe and make comparisons as to privately owned vs state owned water companies and the gulf in environmental standards.

Do you know how many countries across Europe have privately owned water companies, with remote, disinterested, foreign shareholders vs state owned ones. Practically all are state owned you moron....and practically all do not suffer the level of pollution we see being wrought on UK waterways. You are amongst the most hoodwinked posters I've seen trying to defend SVT. You have been utterly conned. I suggest you expose yourself to the facts and give your world view a proper shake up.

The rivers trust in the UK recently found that there is NOT ONE river in England or Wales that can be considered to be in 'good health'. I suggest you research as to how 'we' have got to this place.

I myself have witnessed the collapse of the River Wye (not SVT territory, granted) in the past 6 years alone. It was one of the UK's most celebrated rivers and it is now a dead space. It has been ruined.

Severn Trent are serial river polluters who have cynically 'built in' fines for their environmental harm into their business model imho.....meanwhile, they have along with other water companies syphoned off c. 90 billion in the form of dividends and grossly excessive wage and bonus packages. It is clear to see it has been a free for all.....at YOUR expense...and your children's expense.

Wake up.

SVT will continue to be SHORTED and further falls will come.
Posted at 06/7/2024 19:36 by yump
“ FYI we are in complete control of this b*tch of a company.”

Thats the funniest thing I’ve seen for a while.

Have you actually looked at the share price when you started the thread and the share price now ?

You’ve accomplished nothing there and probably have done nothing in the real world, that helps any sort of reduction in pollution or awareness of it.

All mouth and no trousers by the look of it.
Posted at 10/4/2024 13:27 by yump
Perhaps you’d like to point out where you think I’m defending SVT ?

My issue is with your ranting posts full of foul mouthing, which accomplish nothing other than cluttering up a public discussion thread, so that no discussion can take place.

That is not doing your apparent cause any good.

Shorting SVT will not do any good either.

You have no idea what I think about SVT and thats the problem with people like you. You just stick anyone into the “opposition221; camp as soon as they show any different view to yours.

Perhaps I should put it very simply for you: If someone doesn't agree with your approach or attitude or endless ranting, it doesn't mean they support SVT.

Similarly if someone doesn't agree with a Labour policy, it doesn't make them a Tory.

Are you waving placards and protesting outside chicken farms ? I hope so.
Posted at 29/6/2023 09:53 by wreckingball
Yump, are you still here?

I'm deliberately talking about the environment because it's something I care deeply about and SVT have robbed the health of that environment from me and left a loved one traumatised.

I am also a market participant and market commentator.

It's potentially a potent combination and once again, SVT have sluced their sh*t on the wrong doorstep. I am free to make a call on this company. Market forces. Market sentiment.

Do not moralise with me little man.

In my opinion, pressure on the share price is exactly what is needed here and it is the only thing 'the tooth-whitened ones' will understand. If you are invested and slurping the divis and remain invested after SVT's woeful track record (in my opinion) on environmental damage....then YOU are complicit.

I didn't encourage the funds to buy into this.

It's their choice to park their clients money here.

The predicted upcoming pressure on the share price should bring some much needed and solid focus to those both running the company and those who have parked their money there.

Funnily enough the likes of BlackRock don't take much notice of hand-painted placards and letters to the local gazette from a brave and distraught granddaughter.

A quarterized share price will be more effective.

I am more than happy to roll up my sleeves and embrace the power of the markets.

It will bring focus. And in time it should bring clarity to what is in my opinion a very dirty investment.

All imo. nai.
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What is the current Severn Trent share price?
The current share price of Severn Trent is 2608p.
How many Severn Trent shares are in issue?
Severn Trent has 300,175,103 shares in issue.
What is the market cap of Severn Trent?
The market capitalisation of Severn Trent is GBP 7.79 B.
What is the 1 year trading range for Severn Trent share price?
Severn Trent has traded in the range of 2,310.00p to 2,807.00p during the past year.
What is the PE ratio of Severn Trent?
The price to earnings ratio of Severn Trent is 55.94.
What is the cash to sales ratio of Severn Trent?
The cash to sales ratio of Severn Trent is 3.34.
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Severn Trent reports financial results in GBP.
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The latest annual turnover of Severn Trent is GBP 2.35B.
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The latest annual profit of Severn Trent is GBP 140.2M.
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The registered address for Severn Trent is SEVERN TRENT CENTRE, 2 ST JOHN’S STREET, COVENTRY, CV1 2LZ.
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Severn Trent operates in the WATER SUPPLY sector.