BT pulls dividend as full-year profit, revenue decline
7th May 2020 07:42
(Sharecast News) - BT pulled its dividend on Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic, as it posted a drop in full-year profit and revenue.
Read moreThursday preview: BoE, BT Group in focus
6th May 2020 16:49
(Sharecast News) - Financial markets' focus on Thursday will be on the Bank of England as rate-setters at the Old Lady on Threadneedle Street announce their latest monetary policy decisions.
Read moreTuesday broker round-up
5th May 2020 13:27
(Sharecast News) - Stagecoach Group: Canaccord upgrades to buy with a target price of 110p.
Read moreSunday newspaper round-up: BT Group, Sports Direct, Ocado
3rd May 2020 21:44
(Sharecast News) - The City is braced for a cut to BT's £1.5bn dividend - a move that would send pain through its army of retail shareholders after a wave of blue-chips slashed payouts amid the Covid-19 crisis. The board meets this week to decide whether to keep the dividend, one of the 20 biggest in the FTSE 100 index. More than 40 leading companies have cancelled £16.5bn of payouts this year, according to the broker Peel Hunt, including all the banks. Shell stunned the market by cutting its dividend by two-thirds on Thursday. - Sunday Times
Read moreAlmost a third of FTSE 100 cut or scrap dividends
15th Apr 2020 12:01
(Sharecast News) - Almost one-third of FTSE 100 companies have cut or scrapped their dividends during the coronavirus crisis, leaving investors relying on 10 companies for two-thirds of the index's likely payouts in 2020, research shows.
Read moreBarclays cuts BT, TalkTalk and Vodafone price targets
30th Mar 2020 14:40
(Sharecast News) - Barclays cut its price targets for BT, TalkTalk and Vodafone as the bank reviewed risks to telecoms companies' guidance and dividends from the Covid-19 crisis.
Read moreMonday broker round-up
30th Mar 2020 11:44
(Sharecast News) - Cineworld Group: JP Morgan downgrades to neutral with a target price of 90p.
Read moreBT in talks to sell French domestic business to Computacenter
24th Mar 2020 09:07
(Sharecast News) - BT said it was in talks to sell its French domestic operations to Computacenter as the telecoms group seeks to focus on services for international organisations.
Read moreBT CEO tests positive for coronavirus
13th Mar 2020 07:02
(Sharecast News) - BT chief executive Philip Jansen said he had tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus and self-isolated.
Read moreFTSE 100 movers: Budget throws BT a line, airlines facing grim times
11th Mar 2020 15:27
(Sharecast News) - BT Group topped gainers on the top-flight index after the Chancellor confirmed plans to invest ?5bn on rolling out full-fibre broadband across Britain - a major plank of the Conservative election manifesto.
Read moreExpect BT dividend cut in 2021, Jefferies says
25th Feb 2020 13:02
(Sharecast News) - BT is likely to cut its dividend by 30% from 2021 to reduce debt and help clinch favourable full-fibre broadband (FTTP) regulation, Jefferies analysts said.
Read more'Brexit is done but UK equities are not,' says Jefferies
10th Feb 2020 14:40
(Sharecast News) - Analysts at Jefferies sounded a 'bullish' note on UK equities, telling clients that "Brexit is done but UK equities are not".
Read moreMonday broker round-up
10th Feb 2020 12:52
(Sharecast News) - Consort Medical: RBC Capital Markets upgrades to sector performer with a target price of 1,010p.
Read moreHSBC downgrades BT Group following 'underwhelming' Q3 and guidance
31st Jan 2020 13:13
(Sharecast News) - HSBC took an axe to its target price for shares of BT Group and downgraded its recommendation on the stock following what it labelled an "underwhelming" set of third quarter financials.
Read moreBT third-quarter results 'slightly below' its expectations
30th Jan 2020 07:38
(Sharecast News) - BT said on Thursday that its third-quarter results were "slightly below" its expectations, as it reported a 3% decline in revenue and a 4% fall in core earnings and warned that the government's decision to cap Huawei's involvement in 5G will cost the telecoms company around £500m.
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