Stanley Gibbons Share Discussion Threads

[bingaxu] 12/5/2014 15:06

Some news about sgi on 6/5/14"Stanley Gibbons is a household name in the philatelic world, and last year, it acquired a long time auction site called bidStart that got its start in 2005 specializing in stamps. Mark Rosenberg, founder of bidStart and Chief Digital Officer of Stanley Gibbons told EcommerceBytes about plans for a new, consolidated marketplace.Rosenberg shared the details with users in a blog post, saying "the time is right to consolidate our online presence into a single entity - the Stanley Gibbons Marketplace. Within the next few months, when it's ready, we will be basing our new version of our marketplace directly on our primary domain name: www.stanleygibbons.com"The company will keep the bidStart site active during the transition and will sync users and listings automatically to prevent disruption.Why the name change? "At Stanley Gibbons, we have hundreds of thousands of customers, and a strong brand that has been synonymous with stamps and collectibles around the world since 1856," Rosenberg explained. "We want to ensure that we can leverage the full potential of our combined brand, and customer base for our next generation of our marketplace."The biggest changes with the new Stanley Gibbons Marketplace, aside from the new name, is its focus on structured data and a new payment option. "We've been hard at work building out a comprehensive online catalog database system which allows us to tie together inventory items with catalog data (regardless of catalog publisher)." The marketplace will utilize the Stanley Gibbons catalogs. "This will mean a faster listing process for sellers and more accurate and relevant results for buyers. Additionally, for most listings, we'll be able to automatically add the relevant catalog information with no extra input needed from the seller."Initially the company will focus on features for stamp buyers and sellers, and then it will add new features for postcards, coins, sports cards, and many other collectible areas.The new payment system will be Stanley Gibbons own proprietary system that lets buyers pay via credit card and will offer competitive rates to PayPal.The new marketplace will launch soon and will run in parallel to bidStart. Catalog data features and the new payment option will launch on the new marketplace in June."

[bingaxu] 26/4/2014 16:30

Invesco LTD had increase their holding from 4.43% to 5.2% on 24/04/2014. Next prelim announcement : approx. 23/06/2014.

[eggbaconandbubble] 24/4/2014 18:55

Robin, Can you please put a bit of 'meat' onto that - brief details of IC content or cut and paste if you can / feel OK to do so.
Cheers

[robinnicolson] 24/4/2014 18:21

Stanley Gibbons has a buy recommendation in the latest issue of Investors Chronicle. They are one of their 'tips of the week'.

[eggbaconandbubble] 24/4/2014 09:19

Have there been any recent stockbroker notes, target prices etc.?

[jeanesy2] 24/4/2014 08:50

Moving strongly up again this am.Perhaps there was a stock overhang that has now been cleared? Theories anyone?

[jeanesy2] 23/4/2014 17:43

I have just seen another delayed trade of 50k of shares sold this morning. Any theories as to what is going on as over a quarter of a million shares sold today and yet the price is up 4% ? !

[jeanesy2] 23/4/2014 16:11

2 lots of 100,100 shares sold today. Price remains strong. Strange ?

[jeanesy2] 23/4/2014 15:28

This has been tipped but more sold than bought today so not sure why it has risen so much.

[jeanesy2] 15/4/2014 18:06

Is this moving towards support levels ?

[superiorshares] 10/4/2014 19:35

near term- sub £2.50 anyone ?

[jadeticl3] 07/4/2014 11:24

I am holding too. I have held for a long time and enjoyed the rise. I am not enjoying the fall but consider it to be limited.

[bingaxu] 07/4/2014 10:17

Ex dividend date: 09/04/1014, In two days. - 4p. It's 1.25%.Sgi is one of three good small cap company which has a good protential in 2014:http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/114631/3-Stable-Small-Cap-Stocks.aspx

[dashton42] 28/3/2014 09:03

As well as digesting the acquisitions, they also have the testing and deployment of the new SGI-branded online collectables marketplace to worry about; there's plenty of scope for unforseen costs or delays here, plus the possibility of reputational damage to the brand from execution issues, but also the prospect of a rich seam of seller and transaction commissions if they get it right and can tempt some of Ebay's business to switch.

I'd imagine there are also some good cross-selling opportunities arising from being a one-stop shop for all things collectable - especially at the high end.

Am staying put for now, but I'm concious that I'm likely to live in "interesting times" with this share...!

[eggbaconandbubble] 28/3/2014 08:33

Munch, munch.....belch! Maybe best to stick on sidelines till they have sorted the aquisitions out. And hope they don't spend the £17m cash pile on more of them!!!

[mikeja] 28/3/2014 08:03

Hmmm,eps down to 16.5

[robinnicolson] 26/3/2014 16:50

The company has confirmed via Twitter that the interim results will be announced on Friday 28 March.

[tom.muir] 26/3/2014 16:39

As the year end is now 31st March I can't see the results being announced on the 28th.
Possibly pro forma results for the year ending 31st Dec?

[eggbaconandbubble] 26/3/2014 14:44

That's if they can chew what they have bitten off. My hunch is they will need to reach for the Rennies!

[dashton42] 24/3/2014 08:58

SGI results due ou on Friday 28th March, according to CityAM. Should make for interesting reading after all the recent acquisitions.

Just a reminder that Simon Thompson, Investors Chronicle, said that "...pre-tax profits from the combined entity are forecast to be around £11.2m this year, rising to £13.3m in 2015".

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[dashton42] 17/3/2014 09:20

"Stamp-selling institution wants to be the Amazon of collectables"

An article dated 16/3 in the FT:

[deuchar] 20/2/2014 08:47

this stock looks cheap

[dashton42] 07/2/2014 13:42

For those with access, Simon Thompson (Investors Chronicle) updates the investment case on SGI today, although this review of the 2013 Bargain Shares Portfolio may get overlooked in all the excitement over the 2014 portfolio. Anyway, he still rates SGI a Buy.

[dashton42] 03/2/2014 07:17

Maybe when they've digested this lot, they can turn their attention to AVR?!