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On the days the FTSE indexes fall, ITV will match those losses and often be amongst the biggest fallers on the day
On the days the FTSE indexes rise, ITV will underperform and only regain half the ground that other shares recover.
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Well at least it is no longer at 62p and falling........
Look at the rest of the FTSE. It is not caving in as ITV is. Losses elsewhere are minimal. This is now a good 12% and more in the last month and the real panic sell off has not even commenced. Starting to look like 40-50p might be the real depths to which this share will fall.
I checked with Carolyn's PA and she is watching cricket in Berkhamsted today. She is contactable on her personal whatsapp only. She cares more for the cricket score than share price right now.
I think the BOD are all at their second homes or Caribbean retreats. It is bad enough that they have to be in London for the financial results at the end of the month. They are sat in the gardens, sipping Pimms and watching Wimbledon for the rest of this week. I doubt the Dame has even glanced at the share price. She needs those centre court tickets for this weekend.
Nobody wants ITV. It already visited 50p and nobody bid.
If anything the media companies will just let ITV lose viewers and revenue and then come in and take the areas they want such as studios or even the iTV name once it goes into administration. It saves them all the headache of having to keep ITN going and Public service broadcasting.
ITV is going the way of Debenhams unless somebody with more dynamism comes in. The Dame just clocks in on her laptop from beach front home and collects her salary. 3.5 million a year and she gets to host the best parties with all the celebs on ITV payroll invited.
It is a great summer. Only at ITV the share price has fallen from 72p to 63p in the last month. Axe the useless board members and lets get some changes made here. CFO should have foreseen this share price drop and should have done things to avert it. Show him the door.
Yes yes the same message the oldguard has repeated for years. ITV is win/win. You cannot lose. It is so cheap and making huge profit.
Problem is that the real financial guys and the people who understand media do not share the same belief. They have all been selling here since the Dame was announced.
Got to love Jed. In his fantasy world his investments can only go up.
The Dame has dithered since arriving. No direction no new ideas. Nothing makes me think she will change at this results. She is a well paid blagger who has seized on luck and other peoples good decisions to get promoted way beyond her ability.
We needed her out at the AGM. The longer she stays the more ITV slides and the more ITV looks like it is doomed to fade away into obscurity.
Vote Ant and Dec!!!!!!!
I would from a personal perspective love to see a show where the ITV BOD are put through SAS training. Whip some of those flabby has beens into shape and get them energised. The CFO needs to start earning his money.
Department of media culture and sports would have to vett any takeover. ITV status as a Public service broadcaster would put many bidders off. ITN would also not be allowed to fall into overtly political ownership.
Very few buyers out their would fit all the necessary criteria to be allowed to own ITV.
Keep on dreaming.
The BID????????The Goldfinger bid????????? Today????????? I jolly hope so. £1.70 and my best mate will finally break even after 5 years here.
Everything here is cool. 5 years time this will be good. Pain in the short term. I am sold up elsewhere looking to buy back into oil when it slumps again. The people I worry about are the ones still buying first properties. They will be saddled with negative equity for years. Flats and apartments are finished. Too many and the high end stuff just does not sell now the Russians are gone. Flash sales on Battersea properties where foreign investors try to claw back money. I always wanted Thames view pad.
Anyway a nice night out in Edinburgh. Sipping rum at the George street Wetherspoons (I like cheap as chips) and it is still daylight at 22.00. Easy life on 6 figures for next 20 years. Golf is a terrible waste of life. Plant over and reforest all of those dead spaces.
Sorry Anger some of us actually hold down jobs and are in demand. Travel and expenses all paid for by clients. Nice earner. 20 years more of travelling the world on corporate $
Still mad at the world? I am in Edinburgh. Nice hotel suite. Premium Queen. Will go out on Rose street tonight drinking with colleague. White nights up here are quite something. Easy day tomorrow. WFT. Work from train.
Living the Dream
What does it make me? 90% of my investments piled into Shell at sub £10 at the height of covid panic. Sold at £23.
Lucky Bar steward?
Jed I kind of agree. Long term this is over £1. No point dwelling on todays losses. Buying opportunities are not here. We have months of bad news to come down in the world economy. Could be 12 months before people start seeing a growing economy and everyone dives back in to undervalued companies. Really not the time to be investing heavily in another digital platform that may go the way of Britbox.
I get no pleasure from making others feel bad. I just hate all the positive vibes and back slapping that goes on amongst the long term holders when the SP is falling. I worry that casual readers of this forum are duped into buying, for example yesterday where some self appointed expert announced that 67p was the bottom.
Try being more balanced Jed. I am a holder too. In the same boat. I know that now is not a good time to buy. There is no magic bid coming down. The buyers are all sitting these next few weeks out looking for a sub 59p bottom. DesFos is calling it right sadly.
Jed I want this to go up to £1. Unlike the rampers I am not going to lie here when it is obvious to all sane followers of this share that the pain is about to get worse. I will not buy any more ITV. If anything I am going back into oil once that bottoms out.
Contrarian is the best fact checker we have here. The rampers put up the directors buys as evidence that confidence is being restored only for the smartest of commentators to point out that the directors are contractually obliged and it is done as part of their overall package.
Rampers and their lies..... Do not trust a word that Robs/Nige, Solley or Jed post.
You spoke too soon. The legions of buyers that Jed and Solley know about have turned the share price! It is heading up. Goldfinger and Nigella prophecies are now all coming into play. Goldfinger is not just a naughty boy
Panic over.
Solley I am not your missus!!!!