Robert Sutherland Smith

GSK is being nursed back to health

Last September in a review of the pharmaceutical industry I concluded that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) shares were discounting too much bad…

Rio Tinto – Playing the long game

Rio Tinto (RIO), the mining company, continues to look an attractive equity investment with a good cash position, from which…

Should you check in to Intercontinental Hotels?

Should you check in to Intercontinental Hotels? The Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) Q3 results looked impressive. But on fuller consideration,…

Unilever still looks overvalued

After the surprisingly good results for the third quarter of this year. The shares still look worryingly overvalued on the…

Out of fashion N.Brown looks attractive

N.Brown, the Manchester based catalogue and internet supplier of fashions for the outsized classes (who are always with us and…

Time to take to the skies – but with which stock?

i) Rolls Royce is at 713p on news that EEC competition authority is looking at aviation engineering support contracts, another potential…

What Jeremy Corbyn and Margaret Thatcher have in common

Politics is the vision of the real world as if viewed through a mirror. The image it reflects back is…

Hold Close Brothers Group (CBG) Tight

Hold Close Brothers Group (CBG) Tight Close Brothers Group (CGB) has just delivered its statement of results for the year…

Is it time to hang up on Dixons Carphone?

Looking at Dixons Carphone at 425p, as we approach the Christmas consumer season and after the share price has fallen…

Will ARM Holdings cash in its chips?

Way back in the early spring, Arm Holdings, the Cambridge ‘chip’ (semiconductor) company met the big ‘OR’ of overhead resistance.…