Tesco Share Discussion Threads

[senden11] 24/5/2016 21:46

A few familiar faces here...may the rising trend continue!

[cocker] 24/5/2016 17:36

Any chartist who can shed a bit of light on direction of share price Many thanks

[james smith] 24/5/2016 16:29

Ah well ! Back to 175p where it belongs.

[andrewbaker] 24/5/2016 15:31

A new 160p support level, significantly more institutional/fund manager buying than selling, and a recovery in both earnings per share and profits, and earnings/share growth too. Being boring, I know, but keep buying under 200p and reap the rewards in time to come. And enjoy a returning and increasing dividend to boot. [I'll have a laugh too, when the shorters are forced out and having to buy back at a higher price to cover! lol :)]

[festario] 24/5/2016 15:28

Steady? This is phenomenal today

[chinese investor] 24/5/2016 14:27

Steady Progress !

[loganair] 24/5/2016 12:39

vaneric - I agree about Lidl and Aldi ´Create a low price image´at first they may have been, then put up their prices. Most companies and their adverts are mainly about image rather then the product itself. As for my dear lady wife she is also too often image, image, image and swayed too much by her emotions when the logic point isn´t sound. When she settles down and starts to use her good intelligence she´ll often say "Sorry, I know what I did was a mistake" the trouble is as a family we can not afford to make these mistakes.

In my opinion, very low price food is often tasteless or even worse very salty in taste and not worth it at even half the price. I prefer, less but better quality.

Do you by any chance remember years ago a company producing washing up liquid at just 11p per bottle, which it´s advertising at the time really emotionally played upon. It was actually found to be one of the most expensive around as one had to use half a bottle to get the washing up done.

[vaneric] 24/5/2016 12:26

I always shop a Tesco myself, they have all I need and at a fair price, on Tuesdays I take a pensioner friend to do her shopping at Lidl, she has fallen for the 'Create a low price image' shopping campaign but cannot see that there is no 'like for like' comparison.

She buys own label stuff and thinks she's getting a better deal because it's cheaper, without considering that if she compared with Tesco's own label products she would see that she's making no saving, add to that the fact that it's an eighteen mile round trip to Lidl and only four to Tesco.

[loganair] 24/5/2016 12:01

Vaneric - Socialists are not true Communists as all they do is to spend other peoples money, taxes on the poor in order to gain their votes and gain power - Brazil a very good example of this. At one point the richest member of the House of Commons was a Labour Socialist. The vast majority of socialist are "believe in what I say, not what I do."

It seems to me your view of Capitalism is more Speculating rather than truely Investing for the future.

The Capitalism we have today, holds the world back from advancement. The world has the resources to do many things, but we don´t because large powerful companies buy up Patents, then sit on them for ever making sure they do not come to fruition.

In my opinion, money in just a figment of the imagination, it produces people getting into debt, once in debt these people can be controlled and kept down.

The 2008, financial meltdown was just a way of transferring wealth from the middle classes to the super wealthy. The only reason to want so much money and wealth is power.

Back to Tesco - What is it doing about Differentiating itself from the other supermarkets???

Take Waitrose it differentiates itself by good and knowledgeable customer service, pleasant shopping environment with its soft green and overal pleasant shopping experience, not a bum fight etc.

Where as Tesco is often very loud and noisy, with its loud noisy bold blue colouring every where, on the whole unknowledgeable staff, overal usually a very unpleasant shopping experience and I can´t wait to get out.

[ladeside] 24/5/2016 11:52

Yes, Britain of course was the blueprint country for where communism was based and how anyone can get annoyed about people sharing the wealth of a country and contributing to make that society work is really beyond me. As usual it's the ultra greedy and arrogant that screw everything up for the rest as it's all me, me, me with them and to hell with everyone else.

It's actually a broken society in which we currently live. Manners are gone, giving up your seat for the elderly and pregnant etc appears to be largely forgotten and basic communication seems a struggle for most in this era of the smartphone and tablet brigade. People have no time for anything or anyone but themselves and it seems to be about racing to the top and standing on as many people as you can en route.

No, it's a grim society in the UK I'm afraid.........

[vaneric] 24/5/2016 11:46

You're wrong, the simple fact is if you have more money than you need to live on and you invest it with a view to making a margin on it you're a Capitalist.

If you have more money than you need to live on and you spread it around among the less well off you're a Socialist.

Socialists quickly run out of funds, and friends then join the less well off and start looking for handouts.

The true philanthropist is the Capitalist who has by luck or hard work become filthy rich and decides to give it all away.

Marx was a philosopher, he talked the talk but he was never in the poor man's shoes.

[loganair] 24/5/2016 11:31

ladeside - I totally agree that both Capitalism and Communism are taken over by the powerful to the detriment to the well being of the ordinary citizens. In true Communism there is nothing about restricting the citizens right to free travel or even setting up a private business.

Has anyone read Carl Marx´s first manifesto, could almost have been written by a Capitalist.

As for Tesco - What Differentiates it from the other supermarkets, until there is sadly in my good opinion Tesco will become a M&S, stagnate and not grow, if anything will slowly fizzle and wither.

[ladeside] 24/5/2016 11:18

As loganair states, this is most definitely NOT capitalism. Capitalism is supposed to be a free market, this is NOT a free market. this is a market and a system which is skewed heavily in favour of the rich and powerful and manipulated and backed by Governments and Central Banks to the detriment of the ordinary citizen, this is not how it was supposed to be.

Many people have a tendency to decry communism often citing the most extreme failures of that system, however corrupt communism and corrupt capitalism are in fact one in the same and it's no coincidence that the multi Billionaire oligarchs from Russia and the new money super rich from China are in fact the previous high ranking elite of the communist parties in their countries.

Corruption I'm afraid is corruption whether it's painted as a leftist socialist pipedream or an elitist entrepreneurial success........

[bigbigdave] 24/5/2016 10:35

25% off all wine again. hic..

[loganair] 24/5/2016 10:14

vaneric - Actually this is not Capitalism, this is about the elite maintaining their power. Capitalism is about putting Capital to work to produce something, it is about investing for the future and not speculating.

[neilyb675] 24/5/2016 09:14

"This is Capitalism and you're part of it."

100% correct.

[vaneric] 24/5/2016 09:04

Show us an alternative that works, I've never seen one.
Why are you here if you don't like Capitalism?
This is Capitalism and you're part of it.

[diku] 24/5/2016 08:43

You have to be in the elite club & capitalism works in your favour!!....

[tenapen] 23/5/2016 20:03

When people are paid so much, a £200 taxi ride is nothing ! he probably thinks he is slumming it in a taxi as when he worked at RBS / HBOS Banks he may have had Limo and driver on call !.


The Rich getting Richer,
The Poor getting Poorer,
Capitalism isn't working.

[ladeside] 23/5/2016 14:59

£18 grand is nothing. Let's face it when people are being paid multi millions each year whether a success or failure, then I think making a big deal about a few grand travelling expenses is pretty pointless. I'd also point out that this is a private company. I could see the sense in the outrage if it was public servants using tax payers money, but it isn't.........

[portside1] 23/5/2016 12:26

Application has been made for the listing of 33,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trade on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities.

These shares are being issued and allotted pursuant to the Tesco PLC Performance Share Plan 2011.

Application has also been made for the admission of these shares to the Official List and to trade on the Main Securities Market of the Irish Stock Exchange.

The shares will rank equally with the existing issued Ordinary Shares of Tesco PLC.

Admission is expected to be effective on 23 May 2016.

it stinks and you have not heard lewis speak about the 2.6b saved by not paying a div or restoring the div . no just directors bonuses via their friends in the remuneration

[portside1] 23/5/2016 12:23

just no notice he has not got rid of the remuneration committee who cost Tesco millions but look after their director friends .

till div is restored their should be no bonuses for the management

[loganair] 23/5/2016 12:11

By Harvey Jones - Remember when grocery chain Tesco was seen as an unstoppable global behemoth destined to consume the world? That was another time. Tesco’s share price is 60% lower than it was five years ago. Incredibly, it’s also 50% lower than it was 10 years ago. That’s right, in May 2006 it traded at 319p. Today you pay around 162p. The last decade has been thoroughly forgettable for Tesco investors, just ask Warren Buffett, who names it as one of his biggest mistakes ever.

Incoming boss Dave Lewis wisely aired all the dirty laundry he could find, so no one can accuse him of having mucky drawers. He’s abandoned misguided turnaround solutions, such as Harris+Hoole coffee shops and Giraffe in-store restaurants. The private jets have gone. Surplus food lines have been axed. Multi-buys put out of their misery. Store expansion plans shelved. Margins slashed in a bid to fight back against the discounters.

So where does he go next? In that respect, we’re all a little in the dark. Lewis has cleared out the dead wood, but how will he deliver fresh growth? Online? Non-food? Who knows? With the stock trading at 48 times earnings and no dividend, I would like to see that the man has a plan before I would consider buying Tesco again.

[nathdani] 23/5/2016 08:33

Tesco now paying cash for turnaround bonus unless you want shares ,they are listening to staff .