onewayticket
25 Sep 2017
Mention in Shares Magazine A little mention in last weeks magazine of Manx Telecom being a appealing dividend payer of 6.1% or thereabouts.(Subscription only)One for those looking for an income element of their portfolio and a big tick from me. Not many these days offering 6% or more.Own due diligence.
gamesinvestor
18 Sep 2017
Analysis of Manx [link]
paddington_bear
12 Sep 2017
Running to stand still The rather worrying, steady decline to 170p was a reflection that the CFO was in trouble for criminal activity unrelated to the firm - however no details if /when this vital position will be filled whe he returns or is replaced. Share price headed back to 200p when company suspended him.A weaker half year with debt creeping up as company upgrading plans progress as scheduled, The CEO expects better in next period. Nevertheless dividend up by 0.2 to 3.9p. Market reaction down 3% initially on flat market day.I would hope to see a CFO soon and trimming of debt as promised, plus progress on filling the capacity at the data centres (built at no small cost and under-utilised).PB. Dyor.
swiftbird
11 Sep 2017
Results Interims tomorrow
claude reins
10 Aug 2017
Re: Why the drop? Busy man, Mr Lamb, as well as being very rich. Made a fortune at Trix which he has just brought to the market last Tuesday and intends to stay on for around 9 months as non-exec chairman. He has been CFO at Manx Telecom before becoming CEO recently. He wont be pleased by the recent news about his MT CFO.
NewM0ney
10 Aug 2017
Re: Why the drop? So maybe information leading to the story about the CFO had some impact on the price preceding the announcement today: [link]
NewM0ney
12 Jul 2017
Re: Why the drop? @swiftbird Yes I can see now the price dropped on the ex-div day from 205p to 196p, that's 9p compared to the dividend of 7.2p, so it dropped more than the dividend, and an even bigger drop of 12p from 22nd. However it had started rising significantly on 17th from 200.5p, so taken from 17th May open price the drop was only 4.5p. At the time the drop looked like it exceeded the dividend, I guess the price has been affected to some extent by declines in the rest of the Telecoms sector. Hopefully the trading update will give reassurance and the price will see some recovery.[link]
shareordie
12 Jul 2017
Trading update Looks good,trading in line with expectations,trading still supports the dividend policy.Hopefully the share price will go back up now.No shocks here
swiftbird
26 Jun 2017
Re: Why the drop? Because of ex-divi date 25 May and divi paid 30 June quite common for share price to dip in this period. No adverse news that I'm aware of.
NewM0ney
26 Jun 2017
Why the drop? Any news on the reason for the recent drop in share price?
gamesinvestor
25 May 2017
Ex Divi today Seems to have taken a large post ex-div hit.Games
IOMINVESTCOM
15 Apr 2017
Re: Major Interest in Shares [link]
gamesinvestor
14 Apr 2017
Major Interest in Shares [link] Aberdeen Asset Management over 10%Games
IOMINVESTCOM
15 Mar 2017
Paul Scott's view Manx Telecom (LON:MANX)Share price: 196.5p (+0.5%)No. shares: 113mMarket cap: £222mFinal ResultsFairly stable results at Manx, the main broadband/communications company on the Isle of Man.Revenue up 1.5%, £80.8 million.Underlying EBITDA flat at £27.7 million.Underlying PBT flat at £16.3 million (reported PBT £8.8 million).The profit result is flat on an underlying basis, but on a reported basis, quite a few elements have hit the result: revaluation of interest rate swaps (£1.2 million loss)Transformation programme (£4.3 million)Property revaluation (£1.3 million)Acquisition costs (£0.2 million)Impairment of equipment (£0.5 million).Last year, the company's reported PBT was higher than underlying PBT, lending credibility to the argument that the deductions above are indeed one-off events.The Transformation Programme is "aimed at improving competitiveness and the customer experience" - I can understand why companies internally will set budgets for these sorts of programmes and will want to look at them separately to the underlying profit result for the year. But from an investor point of view, programmes like this do tend to crop up at many companies from time to time, and it's hard to think of them as truly exceptional.Final Dividend: 7.2p, up from 6.9p. Combined with the prior interim divi, the yield is 5.5%.My opinionSeems a very reasonable proposition to me, as far as utilities go.It has 95% market share in the fixed line network, despite having opened its fixed line product on a wholesale basis to competitors.Turnover is gently increasing with a variety of non-core and potentially UK-wide services offering some opportunities for growth and innovation (data centre revenue is declining, but special SIM card revenue is growing and offsetting this).The exceptional costs are worth studying, in particular the Transformation Programme which is set to cost £10 million in total over two years (of which £4.3 million already charged to profits).Utility shares are never going to be 100-baggers, but are just a relatively safe source of income for investors - they have more in common with high-yield bonds and REITs than conventional equities.Heavy investment requirements and predictable revenues make them the perfect borrowers, and indeed Manx has net debt of £52 million, which looks manageable.Possibly worth looking at for long-term income, in my book.[link]
shareordie
23 Feb 2017
Bought here today for a steady income.Looks good to me.
