Not arty farty trendy shares or quick bucks, but sensible solid companies to buy into.

I did think about HMV as with Zavvi and Woolies closing HMV always seems busy. But i looked at the chart and they are on a high. Too expensive?

Hmv Share Chart. HMV Historical Graphs. Technical analysis for Hmv Group Plc Ord 1P.

 

Banks!

 

Northern Rock?

Barings Bank???

 

Try and start a sensible discussion, only brings out the numpties

 

TW - Taylor Wimpey

heavily into them - should double by March - possible x10 in 2/3years

Funding deal due late feb/early march

These were £5 2 years ago - 18p now
current share price values company at just under £200million.
It has 1.55billion of debt but 3.5 billion worth of land

It has heavily cut its overheads and will be at the front of any recovery later in 2009. Also will benefit from the government push on bank/BoE lending

This is my holiday home fund in 5 years time

 

Interesting...
The debt I can believe, but when was the land valued, and by whom?

 

You beat me to it! If thats land valued in 2007 then you could probably say its now worth more like 2.8 billion (house prices down 20% since then, so assuming link with land prices), and give it a couple of years that could be looking more like 1.4billion...

IMO shares in general still have some way to fall as there is no light at the end of the tunnel in terms of the economy. The only shares I hold are British Energy, which got bought out, so I got the money for those recently, and RBS which I had an all-or-nothing poke at just for fun! (currently up over 100% on what I paid a couple of wks back, but could still easily fall to nothing!)

Only things I would go back into really are energy, gold (Randgold etc) and banks (for a high-risk punt!)

 

Banks are high risk i had shares in B&B from when they converted to a bank and all that went when they got taken over by the Government and my shares in TSB got devalued when they printed loads more to sell to the governement effectively diluting my stake.

 

Bt shares are at their lowest ever at the moment and i have a lot of brass tied up in bt shares that i purchased at over £2 a share and they currently aroud £1 a share now and i cant see them going much lower...fingers crossed

 

good luck on that one..

 

I think RBS shares are worth speculating on (speculating not investing - there is a difference).

20p - could easily be worth a £1 in two or three years; £5 in five years. Or nothing.

When they were 11p it was definately worth buying 10,000, even at 20p if you have £2k to spare.

 

argos shares have dropped of too, pretty low at the moment, maybe worth a shot

 

just looked, too late

 

BP - 8% yield. Savers looking for a better income from high yielding shares should see them flocking to BP - helping move the share price upwards.

As long as oil stays $40+ they should be able to maintain this level of divi.

 

Argos, i hardly go there. Havent supermarkets taken their share.

 

Alarm bells, thats some fall. Too risky.

As forbanks if they get nationalised then its curtains for shareholders.

 

What about Amazon.
Where can i find company data, ie debt, sales etc.

 

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To answer question further up page.

Stated land values have been re-adjusted by between 20-30% already.

TW now 20p - doubled my money already in the last 3 months.
Enough to buy me a nice toy with 4 wheels, but staying in for the long term.

Want a safer bet - Balfour Beatty - good order book as they deal with long term PFI work (3-5 years work)
Share price has come down with whole market, but they are very well placed in the construction world.

Not all construction shares - risky look at GOO (gold oil)

 

Quite a few people I know have invested in TW shares.
I'm considering buying a few myself, got a few Tescos shares as well.

 

Ok then, how about Woolies?

 

Thats shares in house building. My only concern is why have they fallen so much, its a huge,huge drop.

 

Amazon is Wall-Mart online i read somewhere. Developing a great brand name. If you want small electrical items online, where else do you go.