Universe Share Discussion Threads

[papalpower] 08/4/2005 14:14

I would agree with you verynervy, an upward climb is due now on continuous buying.

[verynervy] 06/4/2005 07:56

Hopefully we have now ditched the disbelievers and stability followed by an upward climb might now ensue.

:-)

[papalpower] 01/4/2005 19:36

Been discussing on the CCN thread the chance of them being a VCT target, UNG could well fit that bill too with a market cap of 10.75M and a PTB of less than one with excellent mid term prospects. Keep a watch for any large trades ;-)

[papalpower] 01/4/2005 09:46

As and when it comes in, good or bad, it will be added on to here. If you have any views and data jakknife, please add.

[papalpower] 01/4/2005 08:57

Corporate Synergy new rating :

24th March - BUY

2005 Est PTP of 1.96M
2005 Est EPS of 3.1p
2005 Est Div of 1.6p

[papalpower] 01/4/2005 08:47

verynervy, your quite safe in UNG and over time you will be rewarded. The targets for the coming year are 1.6M PTP with earnings per share of about 2.5p. All being well that should give a 1p divended next time around. The 0.75p div this time is the bottom level, of which UNG will do incremental increases in the div year on year. HTEC up front order book is good, its like the crown jewel of UNG and easily worth 20M minimum if they decided to sell it, but they possibly will not as this has the potential in 2008/9 onwards of pulling in multiple millions in profits.

The market at the moment is for risky punts (exploration, telecoms and the like) , and when the market goes back to value stocks and income stocks, UNG is pretty well up with there. UNG may be a little un-exciting now, but for sure its got very exciting prospects. The forward looking targets of 1.6M PTP and 2.5p EPS are based cautiously, if the summer proves good for First Remit and Master Charge, these could easily be beaten.

If you take a two year period from now, you will easily get 100% up on the SP, so do not be nervy.

[verynervy] 01/4/2005 08:03

High papal power

just to let you know that although I dont post here I do read regularly and your words and utmost faith have kept me invested in this company.

I did double my holding recently on the price dip/
.

do keep up your posts - the best of luck!

[papalpower] 31/3/2005 15:02

Nice to see it rising up now, lets hope we can sustain a blue period to take us, well, much higher.

[papalpower] 31/3/2005 11:42

Thats why the director buying yesterday, we really should be over 30p now, just have to wait a little, keep holding and adding.

[papalpower] 31/3/2005 11:22

Some hints perhaps, expecting circa 1.6M Pre Tax profits this year, good.

Potential to sell HTEC for 20M, leaving UNG with 16M in cash in the bank and no debt and still have a 30M per year business thats presently break even less HTEC but growing - 17p only reflects a value of 10M for the whole company, better.

Its in growth - keeping it all the same within 2 years you could see operating profits over 5M, excellent too.

Very exciting prospects.

[juju43] 30/3/2005 21:46

can u post

[papalpower] 30/3/2005 20:59

Strong write up on t1ps.com - stating an absolute bargain at 17p.

Three very good reasons to buy this and why its very much undervalued !!

Makes interesting reading and yet more reasons to keep adding.

[papalpower] 30/3/2005 16:22

Universe Group PLC
30 March 2005

30 March 2005

Universe Group plc

Directors' Shareholding

Universe Group plc (the 'Company') announces that two of its directors, Ray
Mackie and Catherine Wines have today each purchased 25,000 shares in the
Company at 151/2 pence per share.

Following these transactions Ray Mackie is beneficially interested in 6,974,658
shares representing 11.4 per cent. of the issued share capital and Catherine
Wines is beneficially interested in 191,942 shares representing 0.31 per cent.
of the issued share capital.


Enquiries:

Universe Group plc
Ray Mackie, Executive Chairman 020 7287 0888

Charles Stanley & Co Limited
Russell Cook 020 7739 8200


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

[papalpower] 30/3/2005 12:01

Standard tactics, drop the bid a lot, get the stop losses, not many, then have to raise the bid, get out some more as you have paniced people, still only got 100K sells, but they had to raise the offer too as too many buys. All positive things for a strong share price later, definite watch for MM tactics over the coming days and weeks, this could, IMI, get some strong buys when not suspected too.

[papalpower] 30/3/2005 11:06

More buys than sells now. IMI they will not drop the bid any further, they will now raise it to try to coax people out on worry.

For me this is still a hold and add, and I will.

The results were cunningly good.

[papalpower] 30/3/2005 10:59

Not many though, the MM's pulled the stop losses with a massive drop in the bid, and got about 50K shares back so far. This will worry them, if you cannot get sellers dropping the bid, you then have to raise it. Watch for a very blue day soon, maybe next week.

[gubinz] 30/3/2005 10:52

I can't believe some people are dumping these for 13p

[papalpower] 30/3/2005 10:13

I take this as good, they know that UNG will be looked over in the press at the weekend, and you cannot deny the positive outlook. Better to trip the stop losses now and pick up cheap stock ready for next week.

Notice the offer is still high and now spread high, they only want a lower bid to drop people out on the cheap.

Hold and add, we will see a much higher share price this year IMI.

[ningram] 30/3/2005 10:09

Looking at the price today it isn't good!

[papalpower] 30/3/2005 01:56

A webcast today with UNG chairman Mackie on t1ps.com, will be very interesting to see what he says.

[papalpower] 29/3/2005 15:53

Yes, and they lowered the bid to 17 from 18, and keep buying back at 18.

These results comfirm that the hard work is done and now its going to be good from here, however, it will take some time for this to fly, but it will and not so many months away. IMI.

[gubinz] 29/3/2005 15:39

Well what an underwhelming response to what is in my view a good set of results. All sells so far - mind you with this spread I'm not that surprised!

[papalpower] 29/3/2005 09:24

I agree there, we should see in the coming months insitutions adding. The future is much clearer now and with HTEC coming on strong it looks potentially very rosy. I think they have made the decision to take maximum goodwill and write off's now, such that the next interim and prelim will have maximum positive potential. The 0.5p div is a nice little give back in the short term.