Good morning!
I'll be working on this report until about 10.00-10.30, when I'll need to start preparing for a chat with the management at Record (LON:REC). Please let me know if you have any questions you'd like me to ask them!
Alex has asked me to help share the new product release notes: dividend dates and news enhancements.
Spreadsheet accompanying this report: link
Wrapping it up there for today. I'll type up my Record notes next week. Have a great weekend!
Best regards
Graham
Companies Reporting
Name (Mkt Cap) | RNS | Summary | Our view (Author) |
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Berkeley group (LON:BKG) (£4.1bn) | PBT -5% (£529m). ROCE 16.5%. “Well-placed to achieve our FY26 pre-tax profit guidance of £450m.” | ||
Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LON:GKP) (£351m) | Production guidance unchanged (40-45k bopd). Capex & cost guidance unchanged. | ||
Central Asia Metals (LON:CAML) (£286m) | The prior offer was A$0.05/share. Observed a buyer at price above that. New offer: A$0.053/share. In a separate RNS, they announce that they've bought New World shares on the market at A$0.055. | AMBER/GREEN (Graham) [no section below] I have no particular view on this as it's outside my wheelhouse, so I will leave the AMBER/GREEN stance from Mark unchanged (see here). But I do find it interesting that they have been spurred into increasing their offer for New World Resources, after noticing that there was a large buyer of New World shares at a price higher than CAML had offered for the business. Those purchases, predicting that New World was worth more than A$0.05 per share, have turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy! CAML, anticipating some resistance to their initial offer, have now sweetened the deal. CAML have significant cash resources (US$67.6m as of Dec 2024) but their offer values New World at US$128m, so they will need to use their RCF to fund the deal. | |
Integrated Diagnostics Holdings (LON:IDHC) (£155m) | Buys a radiology and radiotherapy facility in East Cairo for EGP 400 million (£6m). | AMBER/RED (Graham) [no section below] The deal sounds great but I have to retain our AMBER/RED on this due to the difficulty of assessing the Egyptian economy and the numbers in the context of a 17% inflation rate. But I have no reason to doubt that IDHC will success in its… |