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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type | Share ISIN | Share Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectris Plc | LSE:SXS | London | Ordinary Share | GB0003308607 | ORD 5P |
| Price Change | % Change | Share Price | Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.00 | 0.38% | 3,178.00 | 3,160.00 | 3,162.00 | 3,166.00 | 3,106.00 | 3,148.00 | 233,630 | 16:35:09 |
| Industry Sector | Turnover | Profit | EPS - Basic | PE Ratio | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Measurement Instr | 1.45B | 145.4M | 1.4407 | 21.93 | 3.19B |
| Date | Subject | Author | Discuss |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/9/2003 12:49 | BUY...BUY...BUY...BU GX NETWORKS,FORMELY KNOWN AS ZIPCOM HAVE BOUGHT COMPANIES WHO HAVE SPENT IN EXCESS OF £150MILLION ON DEVELOPMENT,ALL AT COSTS OF LESS THAN £15 MILLION.... RESULTS OUT SOON, THIS BABY IS A BUY...WILL HIT £1.. CHECKOUT THE B.BOARD EPIC....GXN...ALL INFO ON THERE...HAPPY HUNTING GUYS.. | aixam | |
| 11/9/2003 12:48 | BUY...BUY...BUY...BU GX NETWORKS,FORMELY KNOWN AS ZIPCOM HAVE BOUGHT COMPANIES WHO HAVE SPENT IN EXCESS OF £150MILLION ON DEVELOPMENT,ALL AT COSTS OF LESS THAN £15 MILLION.... RESULTS OUT SOON, THIS BABY IS A BUY...WILL HIT £1.. CHECKOUT THE B.BOARD EPIC....GXN...ALL INFO ON THERE...HAPPY HUNTING GUYS.. | aixam | |
| 11/9/2003 12:48 | BUY...BUY...BUY...BU GX NETWORKS,FORMELY KNOWN AS ZIPCOM HAVE BOUGHT COMPANIES WHO HAVE SPENT IN EXCESS OF £150MILLION ON DEVELOPMENT,ALL AT COSTS OF LESS THAN £15 MILLION.... RESULTS OUT SOON, THIS BABY IS A BUY...WILL HIT £1.. CHECKOUT THE B.BOARD EPIC....GXN...ALL INFO ON THERE...HAPPY HUNTING GUYS.. | aixam | |
| 11/9/2003 12:48 | BUY...BUY...BUY...BU GX NETWORKS,FORMELY KNOWN AS ZIPCOM HAVE BOUGHT COMPANIES WHO HAVE SPENT IN EXCESS OF £150MILLION ON DEVELOPMENT,ALL AT COSTS OF LESS THAN £15 MILLION.... RESULTS OUT SOON, THIS BABY IS A BUY...WILL HIT £1.. CHECKOUT THE B.BOARD EPIC....GXN...ALL INFO ON THERE...HAPPY HUNTING GUYS.. | aixam | |
| 11/9/2003 12:48 | BUY...BUY...BUY...BU GX NETWORKS,FORMELY KNOWN AS ZIPCOM HAVE BOUGHT COMPANIES WHO HAVE SPENT IN EXCESS OF £150MILLION ON DEVELOPMENT,ALL AT COSTS OF LESS THAN £15 MILLION.... RESULTS OUT SOON, THIS BABY IS A BUY...WILL HIT £1.. CHECKOUT THE B.BOARD EPIC....GXN...ALL INFO ON THERE...HAPPY HUNTING GUYS.. | aixam | |
| 11/9/2003 12:48 | BUY...BUY...BUY...BU GX NETWORKS,FORMELY KNOWN AS ZIPCOM HAVE BOUGHT COMPANIES WHO HAVE SPENT IN EXCESS OF £150MILLION ON DEVELOPMENT,ALL AT COSTS OF LESS THAN £15 MILLION.... RESULTS OUT SOON, THIS BABY IS A BUY...WILL HIT £1.. CHECKOUT THE B.BOARD EPIC....GXN...ALL INFO ON THERE...HAPPY HUNTING GUYS.. | aixam | |
| 11/9/2003 12:15 | Calling Campbed from forensics. What do make of the results/ Presentation on the web cast? | ldrcvem | |
| 10/9/2003 22:37 | lobed more 460p MM's delaying sells to dress the buy trades. | huwrayhenry | |
| 09/9/2003 22:01 | got a short off on these yesterday at 485. added some more at 475. after the rns today these look good for a drop. DYOR. HH. | huwrayhenry | |
| 09/9/2003 13:05 | any thoughts campbed? | ldrcvem | |
| 04/9/2003 12:18 | interims to 30 June next Tuesday 9th | campbed | |
| 02/9/2003 18:25 | campbed r u still there. your thoughts please. | ldrcvem | |
| 01/9/2003 23:06 | Point of possible interest: Long term resistance line looks about £5.20. I tried unsuccessfully to cut and paste the chart- have a look at the 10 year chart [and draw a line across the 'peaks'] or click on this link for chart: PS: if you do the same for the 3 year chart, we're at resistance now. See what you think... | appendix | |
| 29/8/2003 09:42 | £5.00 here we come and before the half yearly results. Could we see the hights of a couple of years ago?? I hope so, but I can't see it happening in the short term. What do you guys think, I would be interested to here from someone who understands what is going on, from someone how brought them just because he worked for them. | dolphinspirit | |
| 22/7/2003 21:37 | please join rgu thread campbed. we're having lots of fun there. | ldrcvem | |
| 10/7/2003 18:24 | Glad to see that Dr DarkStar has disappeared - hopefully to another galaxy never to return. Today's half year update from SXS was terse as usual & I thought slightly negative but market seemed happy enough that full year earnings forecast maintained even if H1 will be below target. I'm underperform on SXS and certainly not buying. Will be interesting to see level of cash generation in H1. | campbed | |
| 02/7/2003 22:33 | and yet again today ... do I remember that Evil was short here a while ago because of concerns about their accounts ? Target 200 | dr darkstar | |
| 01/7/2003 21:20 | down today and a lot further to fall imo ... Poulter obviously thought so too | dr darkstar | |
| 16/6/2003 17:43 | Poulter (chairman, ex CEO) sells 20k shares per RNS today and couple of brokers (not Caz or Merrills)revise price target to 400p. Looks as though recent rise from 300p has found its resistance point around 400p. Might fall back more, no reason to buy. | campbed | |
| 12/6/2003 10:39 | mattharop – I think you're wise to abandon your short on SXS for the time being dolphinspirit- SXS' share price could in my view easily go to £4.50 if markets continue to look for recovery and warm noises keep emanating from management as I’m told they did at last week's institutional meeting. £5 would be pushing it but, as we saw in the last few days with M&B, Cazenove can often be particularly effective at gaining “recognition&# ldrcvem - glad your T+20 sell (or whatever) on Marconi worked. As to Regus, there is not a normal market in its shares at the moment because Indigo has gone long on CFD's through Cantor on most of the free float. GNI has a disclosable holding. They are squeezing the bears. This is not a market for “country” inside bulls & bears tussle. Jeffian on the Advfn bb is right IMO that Regus' shares on fundamental analysis is worth very little. As to why Indigo is doing this is a matter for conjecture but, as Maxwell showed, if a company is fundamentally bust then the value of its shares can only be supported for so long before the inevitable happens. LMC just appears to be a fashion frenzy and/or hopes of a US acquirer -- it was up another 12.5p today to 162.5p and up another 7p today in a sea of blue following New York. As to Spectris (SXS), although it is a FTSE 250 share it does not have much retail following. Hence no attendees at the recent AGM of SXS; though the company secretary does not seem to be disappointed by this. It makes me think about buying a token share in certificated form just to attend next year’s AGM to give them a surprise. I think company secretaries/director Advfn BB's for retail feedback and believe that happens more often than you'd expect. However they cannot say much, if anything. It was therefore good to see Roger Stephens, SXS company secretary, break cover at post #19 and wittily pull me up for being allegorical. However I note that JeremyL who posted as an employee of a trading company within the Spectris group on the last thread has not been heard from recently and has presumably been told not to post by the good Mr Stephens. Go on JeremyL prove me wrong!! In summary, there are currently shares other than SXS on which with more assurance one can go either long or short: hence I’ve no position. | campbed | |
| 11/6/2003 18:11 | Campbed Good to find you again on this thread which I have revisited as the price of sxs has broken thru my target short level. Most intrigued by the post from R Stephens (if it is indeed he of the unfortunate appearance on the far right of the "experienced management" page of the 2001 accounts) He certainly raises a few questions: 1 Why did no one show up to the AGM?(how many biscuits had they budgeted on for shareholders?) 2 What is the co sec of a company doing on the ADVFN bulletin board checking out company gossip? Has he not got work to do? 3 What is a company secretary doing with a sense of humour ? (his post was quite witty as I am sure you , Campbed will concede.) They are mostly chosen for their dourness and willingness to do or say what they are told In my view the only measure on which SXS can possibly look attractive is that of PE ratio which,as all your earlier posts have lucidly demonstrated can be a meaningless measure for an aquisitive company with aggressive accounting practises.(Interesti I agree totally with you on Lastminute. It is a matter of being patient and waiting till the penny drops My Marconi Bear worked like clockwork. I would be very interested in your views on Regus, surely the most obviously overvalued co in the market at the moment. Like SXS the BB thread is good stuff the Campbed of the thread being a cove named Jeffian. | ldrcvem | |
| 11/6/2003 16:32 | Any one perpared to predict how far this share is going to go before the next major drop. As I am long on this share I would like to see +£5.00 though I think £4.50 is more likely. (I have nothing to back this up with) D. | dolphinspirit | |
| 10/6/2003 13:23 | Campbed - agree with you. Closed short on the move through £4, bit annoying. See no reason to reenter short at this moment, but remains on my watchlist (as does LMC that you mention). Market seems to have calmed down a bit now, and fairly bad news out the states yesterday, although this was more company specific than the economy in general. | mattharrop | |
| 03/6/2003 17:55 | mattharrop -- pain for you shorters yesterday as SXS' price spiked over 400p, supposedly on research note from non house broker which I still have to look at (now done so but it said nothing new). No position on SXS. Mkt strong, looking for good news & SXS pitching their story so is a high risk short. Accept they'll do better on adjusted profits reported this year than many in electronics sector but IMO is very fully priced on cash generation. More generally on shorting, this market is starting to show some excess valuation blindspots. For example internet merchandising stocks are back in fashion and are rising like a phoenix. For example, look at Last minute.com LMC at 140p/share which is now valued at £400m. Why anybody should think a loss- making agent for primary suppliers' distressed travel offerings is worth £400m (with only something like £25m net cash and minimal tangible net assets) totally escapes me. In the US mainstream full-price travel distributors are attracting even crazier valuations and so their acquisition of LMC could be enterprise value enhancing to them -- aka the greater fool theory. However LMC cannot grow its mainstream travel offering without losing its USP of selling excess stock at distress prices. That USP puts a cap on its share of the travel market as primary suppliers don't want too much stock going thru electronic bucket shops. Hence move to red letter day "experiences" and car hire but low barriers to entry on those. Just because LMC and other low margin internet peddlers survived the internet crash as a result of how much cash they raised at flotation and more recently seems to the the rationale to justify current valuations for these. PS 4 June: LMC enjoyed another 10p rise today - so I've retired hurt on that short for the moment & closed it. Rather like SXS in April 02, the valuation of LMC will come back to a sane level IMO later on but its in fashion now. Talking of which mass market fashion retailers have had a horrible time since Easter and so I am shorting a couple of stocks in that sector e.g. see Next (NXT) board for why it is a popular short currently. | campbed | |
| 13/5/2003 16:04 | Opened a new short on this today. I'm not a technician (or i'd probably wait for £4) but just feel it has come too far in too short a space of time. Massively overvalued on a b/s basis, but it's earnings that seem to count until you disappoint, otherwise BSY and IMT would also be worthless. | mattharrop |
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