Primary Health raises £16.1m for expansion
12th Apr 2011 13:51
Healthcare property investor Primary Health Properties has raised £16.1m to expand its property portfolio. It has issued nearly 5.3m shares at 50p a time. "The company intends to use the proceeds of the placing to finance selected investment opportunities and expand its property portfolio," it sa
Read moreSunday tips round-up: Barratt Developments, RSA, Greene King...
27th Feb 2011 11:59
There is no doubt that the UK housing market is in trouble. However, an investment in Barratt Developments is not a play on a recovery in the market - it is based on increasing margins. Because the group snapped up land cheaply during the downturn, if prices stay flat then margins will increase. Al
Read moreWednesday tips round-up: Amec, Standard Life, Anglo American...
8th Dec 2010 07:02
Amec, once a workaday building contractor, has spent the past decade retooling itself as a consulting engineer and project manager. About 45% of the workload now comes from oil and gas, mining and nuclear. Amec shares do not come cheap on 17 times 2011 earnings, although this falls to less than 14
Read moreBorrowings rise at Primary Health
9th Nov 2010 16:15
Healthcare property investor Primary Health Properties (PHP) has seen an improvement in rental growth in the second half of the year. The achieved increase in rent on those leases reviewed in the third quarter was a portfolio weighted average rate of 3.23% per annum, up from 3.1% for the first half
Read morePrimary Health Properties: Health White Paper Offers Opportunities
14th Jul 2010 07:41
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Primary Health Properties PLC (PHP.LN), a provider of modern, purpose built primary healthcare facilities, said Wednesday it notes the initiatives announced on July 12 by Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, in the Department of Health's White Paper, 'Equity and Excelle
Read moreUK SMALLCAP ROUNDUP: Mariana Resources Raises GB6.75 Million
23rd Jun 2010 16:00
Dow Jones smallcap news is on Twitter, allowing you to catch up on the news away from your desk. Go to http://twitter.com/DJ_UK_Smallcaps MARIANA RESOURCES LTD. (MARL.LN), a gold, silver and copper explorer, Wednesday said it agreed to raise GBP6.75 million in a share sale to fund drilling at i
Read moreUK SMALLCAP ROUNDUP: ILX Group Eyes Increasing Overseas Sales
23rd Jun 2010 12:30
Dow Jones smallcap news is on Twitter, allowing you to catch up on the news away from your desk. Go to http://twitter.com/DJ_UK_Smallcaps ILX GROUP PLC (ILX.LN) expects the proportion of its revenue coming from international operations to equal or even exceed the U.K. in the next three years, C
Read moreUK SMALLCAP ROUNDUP: Polar Capital Sees Assets Rise In 2H
23rd Jun 2010 09:30
Dow Jones smallcap news is now on Twitter, allowing you to catch up on the news away from your desk. Go to http://twitter.com/DJ_UK_Smallcaps POLAR CAPITAL HOLDINGS PLC (POLR.LN), an asset manager, Wednesday posted a 74% decline in fiscal 2010 pretax profit, but recovered the loss recorded at t
Read morePrimary Health buys Health Investments for £11.7m
23rd Jun 2010 08:18
Healthcare property investor Primary Health Properties said it has agreed to buy Health Investments, a primary care and pharmacy property firm, for around £11.7m. PHP said it would pay around £2.9m of the total payment in 1,005,153 new shares of 50p each at 290p a share, with the remainder to be pa
Read morePrimary Health Properties Buys Health Investments For GBP11.7M
23rd Jun 2010 07:58
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Healthcare property investor Primary Health Properties PLC (PHP.LN) Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire primary care and pharmacy property company Health Investments Ltd. for around GBP11.7 million, in a move that will increase its total portfolio size by more than 10%. H
Read morePrimary Health Props Acquisition
23rd Jun 2010 07:00
TIDMPHP RNS Number : 0872O Primary Health Properties PLC 23 June 2010 ? Primary Health Properties PLC ("PHP" or the "Group") Acquisition of Health Investments Ltd Primary Health Properties PLC, one of the UK's largest providers of modern, purpose built prim
Read moreSunday tips round-up: Standard Chartered, Experian, Primary Health
18th Apr 2010 11:51
The Sunday Telegraph's Questor column says banking group Standard Chartered is well placed for growth thanks to its focus on emerging markets, where the demographics are most favourable. It is in these areas where most of the population growth that is estimated to happen over the next few decades
Read moreIndigoVision boffin spies selling opportunity
9th Oct 2009 16:47
IndigoVision's chief technical officer Barry Keepence has cut his holding in the CCTV group after a sharp spike in the share price since August. It is Keepeace's second sale of a small parcel of shares recently. In June, he sold 10,000 shares at 415p. The group, which uses internet-based digital t
Read moreSunday tips round-up: Vodafone, IndigoVision, Songbird
27th Sep 2009 19:00
Perhaps most pleasing of all for investors of Vodafone is that it appears to have abandoned its aggressive expansion. Instead it is focused on cost savings and grinding out the cash flow, which makes the dividend payouts look that bit safer. The shares are trading on around 10 times forecast earning
Read moreSunday tips round-up: Balfour Beatty, Booker, PHP
20th Sep 2009 11:46
Balfour Beatty has unveiled a major acquisition, funded through a £353m rights issue. Balfour is offering three shares for seven at 180p each, a 48pc discount to the previous closing share price of 344p. The shares are trading on a December 2009 earnings multiple of 9 times and yielding 3.8pc. The s
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