Robert Sutherland Smith

Is Morrisons worth bagging ahead of the half-year results?

With the half-year to end July now over, the Wm. Morrison share price (192p last seen) has behaved robustly. The company which…

AstraZeneca: Back in the Takeover Crosshairs?

Bad news at Phase III: a potential buy on share price weakness. Following Post Brexit sterling weakness, foreign takeover prospects…

Centrica: Out of the Woods?

Centrica’s cash position has improved markedly suggesting that the current prospective dividend yield at an estimated 5.3% looks sustainable. There…

VAT Cut to Buoy Next?

Next (LON:NXT) at 5,250p, after the second-quarter trading statement, looks lowly rated, both absolutely and historically, and provides an excellent vehicle…

GKN Is Geared for Growth

GKN at 290p have pulled back a little on the half-year results. If they were to move down towards 260p…

HSBC: A Brexit Beneficiary?

HSBC (HSBA) at 492p: investors can now buy HSBC shares at half the price they were seven or eight years ago on a…

Lloyds Banking: A Brexit Bargain?

Bank shares await the verdict of post-Brexit economic history. The share price chart for Lloyds at 54p gives little guidance.…

British Land Has Income Attractions

Property company shares, like British Land (BLND), are about location, quality of covenant (i.e. are the leaseholders good for the rent?) and…

Burberry’s Brexit Bounce

On recent consensus estimated prospective PER of 16 and an estimated forecast annual dividend yield of 3.4% the shares have…

M&S – on the cusp of an exciting speculation

Marks & Spencer at 315p post Brexit and post Q1 Trading statement (Pre Brexit.)  How Brexit might radically change things?…