shovelier
28 Mar 2018
Re: Time to go Does the level at which they have set the price for this rights issue indicate that £5.68 is what he management consider to be fair value for these shares?
Ochs
27 Mar 2018
Re: Rights issue details announced Many thanks for your clear confirmation
Poleaxe
27 Mar 2018
Re: Rights issue details announced Ochs, forget the record date. It starts trading ex-rights from tomorrow. That's all you need to know about. As long as you hold at close tonight, you're entitled to the rights, even if you buy today.
tejo
27 Mar 2018
Time to go Having held Galliford for years, I have decided that it is time to go. It is clear that the final cost of these legacy contracts is still not certain but will very likely increase. The mismanagement cost has been huge, requiring the rights issue. Construction and house building do not seem to work due a blurred focus
Ochs
27 Mar 2018
Re: Rights issue details announced When is the ex-rights date? I think from the announcement it's tomorrow but it also talks about 23 March as being "Record Date for entitlement under the Rights Issue". Thanks
malj1
27 Mar 2018
Re: Rights issue details announced Rights or no rights, the only thing here delivering profit is the housebuilding arm. Why not just buy a house builder, without the overhang of marginally profitable & still high risk massive construction contracts? Plenty pure housebuilders around or no worse & some arguably better prices.
pearlsasinger
27 Mar 2018
Rights issue details announced One for three at 568p.And the SP is holding up at c. 950pLooking a little more optimistic now.(holder)
Bloodshot
16 Mar 2018
Not a good idea to hold onto failing or failed shares. It's a better strategy sell them and put the money into something with more promise. Out with the old, in with the new. If its going nowhere whats the point of keeping it. I sold the dogs and bought sirius minerals SXX at .23 and theyre now at .28 and rising. L8ng term hold hoping for a big profit on this. Worth putting some pennies into imo dyor etc.
Norman Barrington
15 Mar 2018
PS Galliford's SP is holding up surpisingly well, considering it went xd today! There is surely SOMETHING going on, that we dont know about. I would tick 'Hold' if only IIII hadn't wrecked the layout making the button hidden behind the menu line - !diots?
Norman Barrington
15 Mar 2018
Re: A Short position increased....... I have 25 shares in an isa. And another 'portfolio' of about the same number that I am just keeping an eye on. That's almost too much to keep tabs on. I also have trouble disposing of the dogs. Hence the is a lot of red in my current holding, but since I have sold a number of successes, it looks worse than it really is.The annoying thing is that the ones I have an eye on always seem to do better than my actual holding. I too have been investing for about 40 years, but still get it wrong often. My bottom line is good profit, but it could have always been much better.Apparently the human mind hurts twice as much at a loss compared to the equivalent gain. For example, you have to profit £10,0000 to counter the sadness of losing £5,000. This is well illustrated by the behavior of contestants on the show "Deal or no deal" It is ironic that it is reported that Noel Edmunds was suicidal after massive losses and he was in the hands HBOS! That is definately attaching too much importance to money.
shovelier
15 Mar 2018
Re: A Short position increased....... Rhigos,I sympathise. I have a small handful of shares that are worth very little in total and I hold them in a portfolio labelled 'junk'. Not worth the selling fees and all others are held in isa so no CGT offset benefit to be gained on the losses.
Rhigos
15 Mar 2018
Re: A Short position increased....... tommy talent, you have misunderstood me. I have 43 share holdings that are worth MORE than £1,000 each (so obviously a minimum of £43K, very bad form if I gave any more detail). I have shares in three companies (EXI, GKP and AGQ) that the holding I have are each worth £913, £36 and £4. I should sell EXI shares and give to charity GKP and AGQ so I can forget about them and move on.
Rhigos
15 Mar 2018
Re: A Short position increased....... wheebz, "Crikey 43 holdings. Ever thought you may be too diversified?!!"Yes. I am a bit of a hoarder, never intended to have that many but over the 41 years since my first share purchase, number of holdings has crept up. I used to have trouble selling at a loss. Got over that in the last 10 years or so but have a legacy of shares like Tullow Oil showing a loss now of 65.8% on average purchase price (in an ISA) that I cannot bear to realise the eye watering loss on. However in my spread sheet of trades if I select EPIC "TLW", accounts "ALL", I note overall I am showing a modest profit with my TLW trades (this ignores dividends, which in the case of TLW are negligible anyway).In fact I have 46 liquid share holdings plus an Octopus VCT and a few miss sold worthless unlisted shares (for which the FSCS have fully compensated me for). Three of the listed share holdings I have are worth so little (i.e. <£1,000) that I ignore them, e.g. my AGQ shares show a huge loss and sadly for me, now worth only £3.80 so no sense in me spending £11.50 on commission to sell them!! In the good old days when I had the problem of CGT I could use losses to eliminate CGT but now such gains harder to come by and anyway majority of my shares now in an ISA wrapper so CGT no longer an issue. You win some you lose some. As a pensioner I am now more risk adverse so very unlikely to make mistake of getting bitten by dogs like AGQ again, e.g. I sold out of Carillion in Dec 2015 at 303.28p and overall only made a small loss, unlike a friend of mine who ignored stop loss trigger and has now learnt the hard way that some shares never recover!Sorry to be a bore and ramble on 
pearlsasinger
15 Mar 2018
Re: A Short position increased.......again further increases in short positions reported 12th March-WorldQuant now .81%. -x-div 28p. today but sp trades at 1020 as I write.Interesting! -(even if a little scary)
shovelier
14 Mar 2018
Re: A Short position increased....... I read that as Rhigos has 43 different shares in his portfolio (quite a lot) that are each valued over £1000.(presumably there are also some tiddlers where his holding is worth less than £1000). The value of his Galliford shares makes up 2.5% of his total portfolio. Am I right?
