rimmy2000

closed today. position closed and thread can close. on next look out for next stock with a good chunk of cash. total return was 38.7% and a total of £731 in income.

LOOKS LIKE WE MAY HAVE GOT THERE IN THE END GUYS. CASH OFFERS SO LOOKS PROMISING. RIMMY2000

dear all, it's been a while. We are now in new highs territory. And the buys are flooding in. Today reached £3 and that target will likely be breached in the next few days, as new highs is often a buying criteria/strategy. An 18,000 share trade for example was recorded today at 16:38. I have been buying on the rise. And the company is still modestly rated. Which, if strategy continues to execute as planned, bodes well. ATB rimmy2000

The only other thing i'll add is that this sells off in the morning, and gets bought in the afternoon. Easy to trade during day if you are into that style. But more importantly, for me it indicates a likelihood of US buying as the US markets open in the afternoon UK time. Crudely indicated below on 15 min intervals.

Struggling to find time to compose posts right now, so anyone following this story consider this post as borrowed news from other sources. NEW CEO in post (with a background in digital at a gaming co) and was head of digital at WMH I believe. The Existing CEO (Bowcock) goes immediately, whihc is not surprising. Summary here: https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/shares/2019/09/05/news-tips-william-hill-melrose-redrow-more/ "William Hill (WMH) announced that its chief executive Philip Bowcock will step down from the position and as a director of the company from 30 September. Ulrik Bengtsson, previously William Hill's chief digital officer, has been appointed chief executive officer designate and a director of the company with immediate effect, and will assume full chief executive responsibilities once Mr Bowcock steps down. The company stated that this change is part of its succession planning and consistent with the group's strategy of becoming a digitally led and internationally diverse gambling company. Shares fell more than 1 per cent in early trading. Buy." Note: IC also have this tipped as a buy.

yes, could do with some guidance on this, @JamesIG, or someone, as it is starting to cause issues. Chrome now defaults to blocking Flash. Which is annoying, and not everyone uses machines with admin permissions so unable to download alternative browsers. Just tried Opera and Firefox but machine permissions restrict ability to install alternatives.

another US Casino opening a WMH sports book https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/affinity-gamings-lakeside-hotel--casino-announces-opening-of-william-hill-sports-book-300898748.html Market announcement in interims for tomorrow. https://www.investegate.co.uk/Index.aspx?searchtype=3&words=wmh Anecdotal evidence says the group are now closing shops and tidying up the operation for a US suitor to swoop. Of course the depreciation of GBP will make this a more appealing prospect than before. We wait.. Hope everyone is surviving the turmoil of late.

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Hi! Today we are *hopefully* seeing a trend reveral. Currently about 17% up intraday and this time the fundamentals are playing out. Today results were released and you can see the shareholder letter for 2019 Q1 here >> https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2019/q1/Q1-2019-Shareholder-Letter.pdf So what have we got: mDAU (monetisable daily average users) eg, real users, not 'bots' up 11% - growing user base. Revenue up 18% Op Mgn 12% and operating income $94m Total US revenue was $432M, an increase of 25%. Total international revenue was $355M Total advertising revenue was $679M, +18%. Y/Y growth accelerated in the US relative to Q4, with ad revenue up 26%. So we are finally getting traction. Currently looking at $30bn valuation. Some sources (not me) are saying $100bn, or three fold increase. Who knows really, but short term this looks to be finally getting noticed. My most recent purchase was to add more on 11 feb at $31. Not huge but increased by what cash I had available. Finally I almost opened a dfb today at $36 but didn't get the price I was after. Never mind. Not much more to say here except keep an eye on the growth story. I continue to hold.

this is really relevant to me, see 15:20 min onwards https://www.piworld.co.uk/2017/01/02/conkers-corner-edward-roskill-interview/ "trying to be really disciplined is very important" "trying to be distinguish between fundamentals and the stock price which can be completely different" 18:00 "prices can behave peculiarly" "price is an irrelevance" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/eldorado-resorts-caesars-explore-merger-sources.html we wait.

It is quite tricky for me to write here in the interim. Obviously hindsight is a wonderful vantage, and looking back I could have sold, taken a chunky profit, then bought back in. But hey-ho, would not have known that at the time. Additionally, this brings up an interesting point that was written about in a Jesse Livermore book I am slowly reading. And that being that we must, must, consider that one aspect of our trading, or one dimension of our trading (as JL calls it) is time. Time is the dimension that allows us to consider Opportunity Cost: what am I foregoing by holding this position. I am holding out for the consolidation but this may take months or even years to realise. And in that time there are other shares ticking along that I cannot be invested in because of the holding here. This is an important lesson to bear in mind. But we have had signs that industry consolidation is ongoing, (driven even more so by regulatory changes in the UK that will exacerbate this, imo) WMH bought a smaller european company called Mr Green* which it is using to broaden their reach further. So we know the industry is still fragmented and the economies are coming by buying up and achieving synergies through overhead reductions. *never heard of them before! Ladbrokes went through a similar 'pit of dispair' before it was bought by Coral, the price continued to slide until it got opportunistically cheap and was pounced on. I expect something like this will still be the end game for WMH - the CEO mentioned it himself(!) although I expect given the changes in the US then the suitor may be from the US. We have had a trading update today which I need to digest, and also today sees a Capital Markets day which will inform the city of its plans https://www.investegate.co.uk/william-hill-plc--wmh-/rns/capital-markets-day/201811060700134151G/ and its three priorities: · Driving digital growth in the UK and internationally; · Growing a business of scale in the US; and · Remodelling UK Retail. We continue to wait, and in the meantime we receive dividends "As previously stated, the Group's dividend policy is to pay out c50% of underlying earnings and as communicated at the 2018 half-year results the Board is committed that, for 2018, this will be calculated excluding US Expansion."

yes, that would have been worth buying into, ahead of results. Seen similar with BT today, when you get a few profit warnings in a row the marked revises down its estimates, and eventually you get a beat/ahead of expectations ? personally I just ignore these in my portfolio as they are medium term holding, but starting to get traction back.

I think it was an earnings beat. WIll have to come abck with more info, (unless anyone else can kindly summarize?) Up 13% IN A DOWN MARKET

Yes its a fairly humdrum company and I suppose diversification could help, or indeed it could fit as part of a portfolio for a wider group. I definitely think it is a safe bet, albeit boring, but should be fine over time. And pays a decent dividend in the meantime. Perfect for a SIPP or somewhere for a long term hold, imo.

11 Oct TU was inline. https://www.investegate.co.uk/norcros-plc--nxr-/rns/trading-update/201810110700056598D/ Clearly a boring co, so no excitement here, but I continue to hold. Yield 4%+, PE less than 7, "Group revenue for the first half is expected to be approximately £162.5m (2017: £145.0m), 12.1% higher than the prior year on a reported basis," growth coming from acquisitions but the strategy is cross-selling so happy wit The attempts to break out earlier have failed but who knows in the short term. Continue to hold