Who's it going to be?

[The Dirty One]

Barratts has just lost over 5% TODAY, but with a lowly P/e of just 7.88% and an overall yield of 7.50% backed by a ROC of 16.4%, Op Margin of 18.9% and Roe of 15.7% I might dive in and up my investment

What on earth does this mean in English?

 

[ChalkwellShrimper]

Barratts has just lost over 5% TODAY, but with a lowly P/e of just 7.88% and an overall yield of 7.50% backed by a ROC of 16.4%, Op Margin of 18.9% and Roe of 15.7% I might dive in and up my investment

Consistency please BC... no, 1 or 2dp. But as a Chartered Accountant I understand you. And you make an interesting point!

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Not the fax machine again

They ran out of paper at Roots Hall so are waiting for Martin Dawn to fax some blank sheets over.

 

[The Dirty One]

Consistency please BC... no, 1 or 2dp. But as a Chartered Accountant I understand you. And you make an interesting point!

Can you explain it then?

I feel I'm not alone thinking it may as well be written in Greek.

 

[Callum]

This will be a good appointment once it is all done

 

[Ricey]

This will be a good appointment once it is all done

I take it you’re on about Campbell?

 

[Callum]

I take it you’re on about Campbell?

Yeah I mean did well at Macclesfield

 

[Chairman Trigg]

I think we've found our man.....He's really on the ball

 

[Callum]

I think we've found our man.....He's really on the ball

This might be his last game

 

[RHB]

Can you explain it then?

I feel I'm not alone thinking it may as well be written in Greek.

There ya go

Νομίζω ότι δεν είμαι μόνος που σκέφτομαι ότι μπορεί να είναι γραμμένο στα ελληνικά.

 

[Callum]

 

[Callum]

New Southend manager above lol before they even announced it ha

 

[Ricey]

Anyone can edit Wikipedia.

 

[CC51DAS]

New Southend manager above lol before they even announced it ha

Whoever did the edit didn't do a very thorough job.

Have another go Callum and scroll to the bottom this time :)

 

[Callum]

To g

Whoever did the edit didn't do a very thorough job.

Have another go Callum and scroll to the bottom this time :)

to good to be true lol

 

[tallboyblue]

Someone's jumped the gun on Wikipedia!

View attachment 9365

So it took Campbell 8 years to get a job as Manager. That’s the bit which worries me.

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

So it took Campbell 8 years to get a job as Manager. That’s the bit which worries me.

But when he did get it, he did a great job!

 

[rlb999]

So it took Campbell 8 years to get a job as Manager. That’s the bit which worries me.

Given the job he did at Macclesfield the only question is surely WHY it took 8 years. I think he's the best candidate of those that appear to be being linked.

 

[Supernaut]

Given the job he did at Macclesfield the only question is surely WHY it took 8 years. I think he's the best candidate of those that appear to be being linked.

I get the impression that Sol believed he was worthy of a higher calibre job than those he was being offered, in other words he spent quite a while thinking that Leagues 1 & 2 were beneath him. Someone must have eventually made him accept that with no experience, you have to start at the bottom.

 

[fbm]

Barratts has just lost over 5% TODAY, but with a lowly P/e of just 7.88% and an overall yield of 7.50% backed by a ROC of 16.4%, Op Margin of 18.9% and Roe of 15.7% I might dive in and up my investment

So I'm guessing this is about Barratt Developments PLC shares and means... in financial terms...

The Barratts share price has gone down 5% today

The price/earnings ratio is just 7.88% (a PE of 10 means basically that you would get your money back after 10 years, this would be more like 12 years)

The overall yield is 7.5% (this is how much they pay in a dividend... so £7.50 for every £100 invested which is a monster return when you consider that bank interest would give you about 50p per £100)

This is backed by a return on Capital of 16.4%, i.e. £16.40 for every £100 capital employed by the business

The operating profit margin is 18.9% - very healthy

The return on equity is 15.7% - this is the companies net income divided by the equity and anything between 15 and 20 is considered good.

This doesn't seem to quite correlate with the info I can get on Barratts for today but it's not wildly astray.



Unless of course these figures are somehow made up to apply to Adam Barratt expressed as if he were a company and frankly I can't see how that would be the case!