It’s a long running joke that no one has ever bought a full priced sofa. With 50% mark downs, mega discount deals and snap sales the furniture retailers always seem to have promotional offers on the go to attract the punters. Nevertheless, there is still money to be made in the sector for investors. The…
Lloyds Bank at 72p after the annual results for the year to December 31st 2015. The shares are essentially now an investment in the end of PPI claims and provisions leading to big annual dividend payouts this year and next. Lloyds Bank shares: are they cheap or dear now that the share price has burst…
HSBC (HSBA) was one hundred and fifty years old in 2015. It has celebrated its birthday by putting in place capital rejuvenation plans through a restructuring, which last year produced an extra $11.3 billion of capital with which to improve capital ratios and increase the dividend. This year will see more restructuring costs, and bumps…
James Faulkner: Thanks for taking the time to speak with Master Investor. Can you begin by giving our readers a bit of background information on PulseFlow and its recent history? Les Lindsay (CEO): PulseFlow Technologies (PFT) is the trading name for The Diabetic Boot Company Ltd (DBC). DBC was founded in February 2010 after we…
Trains and Planes and Automobiles and Paint, and Kits, and Glue put together the way Hornby thought was That the Thing to Do ? A modern day nursery rhyme or a business school case study in the making? Hornby (AIM: HRN), with a market cap of £20m now (versus a peak of £100m) and annual…
Back in mid October 2015 I penned a piece in which I posed the question of whether it was then better to buy the users of the engines that Rolls-Royce (I selected AIG to represent the airlines) made or Rolls-Royce itself. Its share price had by then already come down from 1,046p last May to…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But this one must be worth at least a million. This glorious image was created by technology owned by an interesting AIM listed company, Scientific Digital Imaging (SDI), which after several years of plodding along now looks like it might be about to take off. The…
AstraZeneca at 4,109p, after the annual report for last year to 31st December 2015. The shares tick a sufficient number of boxes for to make an attractive investment at this level, including maintenance of the dividend and the fact that the share price is towards the bottom of its recent trading range. The big attractions…
The Prudential Corporation (PRU), 1,277p last seen, has a growing long-term global life assurance business with its largest contribution to premium income and profits coming from the Far East and the US. With the Far East under a Chinese black cloud, the previously highly rated shares have taken a relative and absolute tumble. It looks…
British Land shares at 727p (last seen) after the third-quarter results. The latest balance sheet asset position along with a meaningful and progressive dividend yield make British Land Shares look attractive. British Land (BLND) shares were unable to resist the gravitational downswing of the market as a whole. This is an unsurprising fact given that the…
