Sector Specific Share Prices 18/03/13

March 15, 2013 Leave a comment

This weeks share price table for your viewing pleasure. I have corrected mistakes in Support Services from last week – sorry about that.

House builders and Industrial Suppliers are looking good this week with strong increases so far this year. Very interesting to see how different Heavy Construction and Support Services companies are coping given the continuation of tough market conditions. We may take a closer look at May Gurney next week.

If you would like any companies added please let me know by leaving a comment. Feedback is also very welcome.

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Sector Specific Share Prices

March 11, 2013 Leave a comment

As promised my table of construction and related company share prices…..

CE Prices 080313(click to enlarge)

In future I will upload an updated version each Friday afternoon and normally some specific company analysis mid-week.

If you would like any companies adding to the list please let me know in the comments section below.

Also, if you would like me to email you a copy of my full spreadsheet (which has lots more functionality than just this output table)  just let me know via the comments section.

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Balfour Beatty – Brief Share Price Analysis

November 29, 2012 Leave a comment

So, my web coding skills are gradually progressing and I hope to make some progress with the company tables (mentioned in previous posts) over the next few weeks. In the meantime, and as Balfour Beatty have been prevalent in the trade press over the last few months, I thought it may be useful to have a quick look at some historical share prices.

Recently, BB have undertaken a major restructure (a realignment which is likely to yield substantial savings at the loss of around 650 jobs), and a supply chain consolidation exercise. Earlier this month they released a profit warning after reporting a lower profit forecast for 2012. As one would expect, this caused a steep decline in share price, but not below the key support zone of around the 245 level. More recently, contract wins in mid-November have set the bulls back in motion, although, BB’s price seems to be struggling to break through the resistance zone at around 253. BB’s average share price so far this year comes in lower than that of 2011 but the lowest price in 2012 has not sunk below the 2 year low of 214.6 posted last November.

You can read BBs Q3 Interim Management Statement here:

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail.html?announcementId=11389501

We are hoping to undertake lots more analysis of performance over in the future. Once per month, we will have a detailed look at the performance a chosen company, including:

–          History

–          Fundamental analysis

–          Technical analysis

–          Recent and noteworthy news such as contract wins, restructuring, etc.

–          Speculation on future developments

We will also be home to tables of high-level statistics on all listed construction, support services, and real estate companies, updated weekly.

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New look Constructioneconomics.org – Coming Soon

September 27, 2012 1 Comment

The change in seasons has invigorated me to make undertake a more structured (and ultimately more useful) approach to Constructioneconimics.org, as I shall expound below:

To start with, you will soon notice some pleasing (and much needed) aesthetic modifications to the site including a new logo (which may or may not look something like the one below that I have just whipped up on Excel in an attempt to generate some interest!), new colours, and an updated theme.

More importantly, I am starting some new mini-projects that will warrant systematic weekly and monthly uploads, namely:

–          Tabulated and visualised share price data relating to UK listed Construction & Materials, Support Services, and Real Estate companies. This will include weekly fluctuation in share price and some nifty visuals. I hope this table will eventually become interactive once I have gained sufficient web coding power!

–          Weekly share price heat maps of the above companies. Again, this will hopefully become interactive after a few months.

–          Company Click – a detailed monthly insight into a selected company, which will include a bio, some visualisations and charts of historic stock performance, speculation on future price and investment ideas.  

–          Interactive map of UK construction – more on this to follow in the coming months (this is rather ambitious undertaking and may take a bit longer to galvanise).

So there you have it. The new features will of course be interposed with the usual visualisations and commentary on interesting construction data and the like. I will tweet about new posts as and when they happen (@guy_beaumont). Any questions or comments are, or course, very welcome.

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UK Constuction Industry Market Analysis Sources

September 17, 2012 Leave a comment

These headlines have become commonplace and reflect the current shabby state of the wider economy and the sentiment of many construction firms. Indeed, many of us can feel the diminution of positive sentiment in our everyday roles but for many firms it seems to be business as usual. The turmoil of the economy means different things to different companies. For some it may even provide business opportunity. So how do we measure the economic health of the whole construction industry with any accuracy?

To answer my own question…..we use the best data available to us.

This post documents some of the sources of data that I use every week to keep track of construction industry trend and sentiment. Much like an investment analyst or trader tracks key data and news feeds relating to the wider economy, particular company performance, or a specific currency pair, I like to keep up to date on the economic health of the industry within which I practice the most. I don’t have multiple screens running stochastic simulations on construction indices but I do take the occasional look at some of data provided by the following sources.

As you will see, I have listed some pros and cons of each source and attempted to assign each a crude score. Comparison is a tricky one – each medium is very different and often serves a unique purpose (how do you compare the ONS to Construction News?) so I have scored them based on four common criteria in an attempt to demonstrate usefulness by highlighting strengths and weaknesses.

These are subjective views and comments are, of course, very welcome.

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Mouchel Share Performance and Rescue Package

August 2, 2012 1 Comment

Struggling infrastructure and business services group Mouchel recently announced that banks will exchange £87 million of liabilities for a majority stake in the firm as a form of equity swap. This will potentially help to evade insolvency action although, as a result, the group are likely to be delisted from the London Stock Exchange.

Mouchel floated on the Stock Exchange in 2002 and are listed in the FTSE Fledgling. Since spring 2011 share price has consistently fallen as shown the below charts illustrate.  If approved later this month, investors are set to receive a special dividend of just 1 pence per share.

Mouchel Shares August 2010 - August 2012

Mouchel Shares August 2010 – August 2012

 

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