Van Elle Share Discussion Threads

[citizen_kane] 20/4/2020 21:07

I doubt anyone would be surprised if Van Elle folded by the end of the year.
They were buying work before the Covid Lockdown, they have a man at the helm who is clearly clueless, disgruntled senior management, and a forever changing workforce.
Things will only get worse before they get better and Van Elle are simply too fragile. They are (or certainly were before it was all put on hold) haemorrhaging money due to monies owed on plant.
People mention HS2 being a lifeline. Have they secured any contracts yet? No.
Plastering over the cracks at the moment.

[master rsi] 20/4/2020 16:19

28 trades till 3pm and then gone to sleep, well an 11% rise is good enough on a day of the market going nowhere.

[lammylover] 20/4/2020 12:21

I suspect the increase in volume and hence share price is due to a mention by Simon Thompson in Investors Chronicle on line, last week;

Details As follows

"Gresham House’s value proposition

Aim-traded investment company Gresham House Strategic (GHS:950p) has been a top performer in recent years, but the portfolio has not been immune to the market rout, shedding 22 per cent of its value during March.

This highlights the important point that in significant ‘risk-off̵7; periods the valuations of less liquid small quoted companies are impacted far more than large-caps. That said, a negative shareholder return of 5 per cent for the 12 months to 31 March 2020 still outperformed all bar one of the open-ended UK smaller companies’ funds covered by Trustnet, and was almost 13 percentage points higher than the IMA average return for this universe.

The pull-back in net asset value (NAV) per share from a high of 1,420p on 31 January 2020 to 1,112p now means that GHS’s shares, at 950p, are priced 15.5 per cent below NAV compared with a 3 per cent discount in December. Importantly, almost a fifth of the portfolio is in cash, so GHS has firepower to exploit any attractive buying opportunities.

Latest portfolio additions include ULS Technology(ULS), a digital conveyancing platform for housing transactions which has launched a new product, DigitalMove, to improve the efficiency and speed of the process for consumers and advisers. GHS has taken an initial position in Van Elle(VANL), a piling and ground engineering specialist for the construction industry and a market leader in the rail sector ahead of a likely “tsunami of infrastructure spending in the years ahead”.

Good luck all holders! Rich

[master rsi] 20/4/2020 11:57

February 2020 Company news....

Van Elle undertakes rail ground investigation (GI) at Paris depot with hundreds of unexploded world war bombs potentially buried deep in the ground.

Working closely with STRATA Geotechnics, Van Elle’s ground investigation subsidiary, the Rail Division mobilised an experienced team to work on the very precarious ground investigation project to the North West of Paris. The project was to provide samples and data regarding the ground conditions in preparation for the new development of a rail maintenance and testing building for the SNCF.

The project started with mobilising our unique and specifically engineered road rail GI drilling unit the VE-MOG. Having won various accolades within the ground engineering fraternity, the VE-MOG has the capability to undertake rotary percussive drilling on and off track, with its easy access capability it can manoeuvre between road and rail track within minutes......

[master rsi] 20/4/2020 10:45

The New CEO have strengthen the team since taking over, the latest Placing puts the company in a good shape for the rail line on the go-ahead for HS2 by the Government.

Van Elle Strengthens Leadership Team and Streamlines Divisional Structure.
Van Elle, the UK’s largest independent ground engineering contractor has announced several changes to its leadership team.

These are the first key changes in personnel announced under new Chief Executive Mark Cutler who joined in August.

John Foster joins as Commercial Director from Saint Gobain’s glass and facade installations business. John will be responsible for all commercial activity in the Group as well as business development, estimating and procurement.

Peter Handley returns to Van Elle in the newly created role of Strategy and Business Improvement Director from Cementation. Peter has significant sector experience as a former divisional director in Van Elle prior to joining Cementation where he held various cross-company responsibilities. Peter will lead Van Elle’s strategic development, business improvement and innovation programmes.

John and Peter both commence in early January.

In Van Elle’s largest business unit, the General Piling division, director Steve Johnson leaves the Group at the end of November. He is replaced by Group Construction Director David Warner on an interim basis. This follows the appointment of former Eastern Director Steve Bursnell as Contracts Director last month.

Since joining, Cutler has streamlined the operational structure of the £100m turnover AIM listed Group to five divisions, with the new structure now comprising:

General Piling – open site driven, CFA and rotary piling
Specialist Piling – restricted access, low headroom and ground & slope stabilisation
Housing – residential piling and modular foundation solutions
Rail – foundation and trackbed solutions in the rail environment

Geotechnical Services (trading as STRATA) – geotechnical investigations and testing
Commenting on the changes, Chief Executive Mark Cutler says “I am very pleased to welcome John Foster and Peter Handley to Van Elle at this important stage of our growth and wish to thank Steve Johnson for his contribution.

The company has been through a lot of change over the last couple of years but the new strengthened leadership team and streamlined divisional structure allows us to accelerate our improvement, more clearly focus on our customer’s needs and better integrate our specialist capabilities across all the sectors we operate in”.

[master rsi] 20/4/2020 10:24

That's the way, share price improving as there is good trading going on, meaning plenty of buying

[dplewis1] 20/4/2020 09:47

Yep - maybe people making the link between COST and VANL

[master rsi] 20/4/2020 08:43

Strong interest this morning and moving UP accordingly

[dplewis1] 15/4/2020 17:48

As just spotted by babbler on twitter - Gresham just taken a decent lump of VANL.

[brummy_git] 09/4/2020 14:29

Short commentary here on VANL

[diku] 09/4/2020 11:44

Wait for the price to come down to 25p or lower?...as not under written...save on costs...






-- The Placing Shares represent approximately 33 per cent. of the Company's existing issued share capital

-- The Placing Shares have been placed at a price of 25 pence per share (the "Placing Price") which represents a discount of 21 per cent. to the closing price of 31.5 pence per share on 8 April 2020

-- Certain Directors and senior management, including Mark Cutler, Group CEO and Graeme Campbell, CFO intend to participate in the Placing totalling in aggregate GBP92,500

-- The timing of the close of the Bookbuild and allocation of the new ordinary shares shall be at the absolute discretion of Peel Hunt LLP, in consultation with the Company. The Placing is not being underwritten.

[master rsi] 10/3/2020 23:35

Ahead of tomorrow's Budget, BBC today has made a report ...

Budget 2020: Chancellor will promise 'record' infrastructure spend

The government will promise to raise infrastructure spending to its highest in decades in Wednesday's Budget.

It will pledge to triple the average net investment made over the last 40 years into rail and road, affordable housing, broadband and research.

The Treasury told the BBC it would lead to the "highest levels [of investment] in real terms since 1955" - more than £600bn over the five-year Parliament.......

BBC -

[brummy_git] 18/2/2020 17:00

Latest infrastructure services valuation multiples & KPIs can be found here

[onjohn] 17/2/2020 12:32

UPGS looks a beetter one


I see that Paul Scott at stockopedia will be having a chat with the UPGS CEO on thursday . Should be interesting to find out more from the interview.
UPGS could absolutely fly ona PE of 6 from memory

[master rsi] 17/2/2020 12:28

Have started late the buying today but as the day reaches midday the trades are appearing in the ticker and every time the trade is larger 9K and paying full offer 59p

[master rsi] 17/2/2020 11:01

MM decided to move up on the bid 57p after holding it last Friday when the demand was strong

[master rsi] 16/2/2020 20:58

Stock Technical Analysis

Targets Six months: 70.66 One year: 82.54
Supports Support1: 44.74 Support2: 35.00
Resistances Resistance1: 60.50 Resistance2: 70.66
Pivot Point 55.27
Moving Averages MA(5): 55.30 MA(20): 54.53
MA(100): 44.55 MA(250): 47.316
MACD MACD(12,26): 1.39 Signal(12,26,9): 1.48
Stochastic Oscillator %K(14,3): 68.78 %D(3): 58.55
RSI RSI(14): 63.05


Moving Averages analysis
Price and moving averages has closed above its Short term moving average. Short term moving average is currently above mid-term; AND above long term moving averages. From the relationship between price and moving averages; we can see that: This stock is BULLISH in short-term; and BULLISH in mid-long term.

[master rsi] 14/2/2020 13:05

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[master rsi] 14/2/2020 09:49

Starting late wth the buys but a good 8K buy at full offer, is good enough, at this rate something should move as already yesterday were paying full offer 59p

[master rsi] 13/2/2020 12:38

and the spread is closing again as the bid goes to 56p after a couple more buys with the last one paying full offer price

[master rsi] 13/2/2020 12:08

Another large buy appearing 50K @ 58.634p

[master rsi] 13/2/2020 09:14

Early movement UP on the bid side, the buying trades are adding at the ticker as the day goes on.

The share price has bounced from the 50 days MA, bullish as the Indicators are now rising also after the last retracement.

[master rsi] 12/2/2020 23:22

56.50p +3.50p

Parallel UPTREND as RSI is bouncing from 50