Wpp Share Discussion Threads

[ygor705] 01/3/2021 15:20

Very quiet Board considering the steady progress in the share price Results are due soon and it will be good to see how the reorganisation and cost cutting is progressing. Off topic I notice that Martin Sorrel is a big critic of moves by the Government to make Directors personally responsible for the accounting conventions that their companies adopt. I wonder why!

[essentialinvestor] 27/1/2021 16:14

No need to wrap this in culture war terms.

WPP had arguably become unwieldy. It needed simplification.

Martin has enjoyed exceptional success since so good on him.

[togglebrush] 27/1/2021 15:57

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Three years ago the founder of the company, Martin Sorrel was back stabbed, and forced out of the company he had Built over 39 years into the world leading company in its sector.

Pale and Stale man made of the right stuff, who worked his PA's too hard, then founded a new company S4 Capital whose share price is rocketing whilst WPP share price has been steadily falling.

[essentialinvestor] 09/1/2021 19:07

WPP is a global business, it has SFA to do with Brexit.

It's largely a play on global growth and whether the organisation can successfully

navigate a rapidly changing ad market with migration to digital.

Their remaining majority stake in Kantar may be worth circa £3 bn alone.

[porsche1945] 09/1/2021 16:40

Desperate for this pile of steaming sxxt to get to my break even so I can unload and continue exiting all covid brexit basket case U.K. investments, switch to US dollars and stick to the S&P and developed Asia. The next meltdown for U.K. as Scots leave union to rejoin EU, who can blame them, more currency and stock market trashing and can’t see dire tories surviving much longer, who needs the grief, invest elsewhere like the intelligent money does.

[ygor705] 07/1/2021 08:57

Not much news from the company lately but press mentions of a large scale move to home working saving millions in costs may be helping the share price Much firmer feel to things here.

[suetballs] 14/12/2020 12:24

Chart looking healthier now.
I need £10+ to be breakeven in my ISA.
Not sure what I paid for my original holding.
suet

[ygor705] 11/11/2020 08:02

Good share price movement here over the past few days and we are now higher than at any time since the March crash. Encouraging!

[trikytree] 08/10/2020 10:27

Ex div and up? 😃

[ygor705] 07/10/2020 07:25

The share price has recovered well over the past week or so and is close to breaking into new territory. Have the MMS got a sniff of something?

[ygor705] 02/10/2020 14:49

See the share price relative against SFOR has improved a lot over the last week. I also note that Saatchi's shares have been suspended for dodgy accounting. Interesting times!

[boozey] 16/9/2020 19:47

Ygor, that is like asking why all tech companies that were vapourware in the dotcom era had soaring share prices while those that made profits went sideways. I remember a Microsoft conference in 1999 when Bill Gates made exactly this point and joking he was trying to figure how he could make Microsoft lose money so the share price would go up. The point is there is no logic in your market - but the trend is your friend however. I absolutely agree with your point. But I am sitting on over 100% profit on SFOR and less than 10% here. Given the former is in the digital space I would back SFOR to get to £5 before WPP is at £7. I hold both.

[ygor705] 16/9/2020 10:03

With SFOR powering ahead on the back of dodgy looking accounting, I am at a slight loss to see so little reaction at WPP - especially with Martin Sorrell still holding 2% of it. Surely it is reasonable to assume that the market leader (itself well on with an internal reorganisation) should be enjoying at least some of the recovery being ascribed to the wide diversity of businesses being stitched together by SFOR. The share price is showing some signs of life but little sign of having a following.

[discodave45] 09/9/2020 10:14

S4 - not exactly easy to decipher the underlying performance IMO, on the face of it they look good as you say but what else would you expect.

[ygor705] 09/9/2020 08:34

S4 Capital results look good this morning but then they would wouldn't they? We are, after all, being seduced by a master of PR who needs to keep his share price moving forward to feed his acquisition frenzy. I do wonder about the bottom line earnings adjustments at S4 and given the meteoric rise in its share price its on my watch list for the time being. Hopefully, the good results being produced by MS and his crew should feed into WPP but it may take time for it to reflect in the share price.

[nortic 007] 06/9/2020 16:01

Any thoughts DD45 ?

[nortic 007] 06/9/2020 16:00

I might just hedge my bets then and buy into the opposition....I was fortunate enough to buy some cheap ones(WPP) so I've got a cushion for now....

[ygor705] 06/9/2020 13:04

Sorry, I should have mentioned that the PR profile was in the business section of the Times. To my mind, Sorrell must be a man driven by revenge. I suspect that he'd love to grow a company big enough to bid for WPP. Unfortunately, he's got a fair way to go, the businesses that he's buying will need to be properly organised, Covid is still a problem for the sector and at 75 he's getting a bit long in the tooth to run high pressure businesses on a hands-on basis. Nevertheless, his personal intensity might persuade me to take a stake in S4 as well as WPP.

[discodave45] 06/9/2020 11:10

He also said WPP is no longer fit for purpose.......what would you expect him to say!.Their H1 will be interesting though.

[nortic 007] 06/9/2020 09:37

Thanks for your thoughts ygor705

[ygor705] 06/9/2020 09:13

The PR for S4's results this week started this morning with a lengthy profile on Martin Sorrell. Obvious side swipes at WPP but perhaps less than I would have expected from a supposed bitter enemy. Surprisingly (for me at least) he still holds a 2% stake in WPP and believes that there is still value in the company. Praise indeed from a major competitor!

[discodave45] 04/9/2020 17:24

Anybody got any earnings forecasts?

[nortic 007] 04/9/2020 06:11

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