All Analysts articles – Page 37

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    Collyer raises Spirit TP following 'cunning plan' on debt

    2013-10-30T07:48:00Z

    Spirit Pub Company’s “cunning plan” to announce a debt re-profiling could and should free up much needed cash for investment before a probable refinancing in 2018, according to a leading analyst

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    Field open for TRG to accelerate expansion

    2013-10-25T16:19:00Z

    A leading analyst has suggested that The Restaurant Group (TRG) can take advantage of issues surrounding its peers to follow through with an accelerated openings programme and double the size of its estate over the next eight years

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    2013-10-25T16:19:00Z

    Sahill Shan at N+1 Singer looks at Greene King and says that he sees 2014 being a busy year strategically for the brewer and pub operator, as it builds on the underlying trading momentum across its key managed pub formats

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    Collyer downgrades Whitbread but sets out growth path

    2013-10-24T07:51:00Z

    A leading analyst has downgraded his recommendation on Whitbread from Buy to Hold, but laid out a path of how the company’s shares could rise by 85% more than their current value through its growth plan

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    French downgrades Spirit EPS estimates; upbeat on debt move

    2013-10-24T07:51:00Z

    Leading analyst Simon French has downgraded predictions for Spirit Pub Company’s earnings per share during this year and next following the group’s full-year results on Tuesday, although he was upbeat about the potential impact of its proposed debt reprofilingspirit

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    Whitbread: economy, coffee saturation, restaurant performance, analysts

    2013-10-22T14:28:00Z

    M&C Report takes a closer look at the H1 results for Whitbread for the six months to 29 August, reports from a media conference call with chief executive Andy Harrison, and rounds up the views of analysts

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    2013-10-18T16:28:00Z

    Simon French at Panmure Gordon looks ahead to Spirit Pub Company’s full-year results on Tuesday 22 October, forecasting 1% like-for-like sales growth in the managed estate and 0.5% like-for-like net income growth in its leased pubs

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    M&C20 'posts' and increase in Royal Mail bonanza week

    2013-10-18T16:25:00Z

    The M&C20 index enjoyed a bounce this week after four consecutive weeks of decline, rising 2.9% to end on 1,152

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    French: Costa reaching saturation in UK

    2013-10-18T16:24:00Z

    A leading analyst has said that he believes Costa is approaching saturation in the UK whilst the international business is being deprived of the investment needed to capitalise on the growth opportunity

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    Growing confidence represents investment opportunities

    2013-10-17T07:52:00Z

    A leading analyst has said that growing consumer confidence and an improving sector profile is presenting investment opportunities and names The Restaurant Group aned Greene King as his two conviction plays on relative outperformance versus the rest of the sector

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    Jack: Spirit is undervalued

    2013-10-15T07:50:00Z

    Leading sector analyst Douglas Jack has said the time is right to buy shares in Spirit Pub Company, which he says are “undervalued”

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    2013-10-11T16:17:00Z

    Leading analyst Jamie Rollo looks ahead to JD Wetherspoon’s Q1 interim management statement on 6 November, predicting a “solid” trading update “with few surprises”

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    Collyer downgrades forecast for Marston's

    2013-10-10T07:03:00Z

    Leading analyst Geof Collyer has downgraded his forecast for Marston’s after its update yesterday, saying the company has a “dull medium term outlook relative to most peers”

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    2013-10-04T16:17:00Z

    Simon French, analyst at Panmure Gordon, looks ahead to Marstons’ pre-close interim management statement next Wednesday (9 October)

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    M&C20 suffers third consecutive decline

    2013-10-04T16:16:00Z

    The M&C20 suffered its third consecutive decline this week, down 2.3% to 1,122 - a fall that wiped £240m off the value of the 20 companies represented in the index

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    Domino's showed 'decent progress'

    2013-10-03T07:52:00Z

    A leading analyst has issued a Hold recommendation for Domino’s Pizza after its Q3 results yesterday, predicting 11% profit growth this year and saying the UK business appears to be in good shape, although he expressed disappointment about the reduced UK openings target

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    Collyer plots Enterprise equity 'rehabilitation'

    2013-10-02T08:13:00Z

    Leading analyst Geof Collyer has raised his Target Price for Enterprise Inns to 205p, predicting a return to absolute EBITDA growth - the “final step” in the story of its equity rehabilitation - earlier than expected in FY2016

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    Jack: Domino's lfls ahead of expectations

    2013-10-02T08:00:00Z

    Leading analyst Douglas Jack of Numis has issued a Buy recommendation for Domino’s after its trading update this morning, saying that its Q3 like-for-likes were ahead of his expectations

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    Jack cuts Marston’s forecast

    2013-10-01T07:59:00Z

    A leading analyst has cut his 2013E forecast for Marston’s by 3% following Mitchells & Butlers’ (M&B) poor September update and the pick-up in disposal activity

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    Collyer: M&B needs to deliver on its business re-engineering

    2013-10-01T07:55:00Z

    A leading analyst has said there is now now a lot riding on the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) chief executive Alastair Darby’s commitment at the company’s final results in November to some harder targets now that he has been in situ for over a year