London-based content and media services Dods (Group) Plc (LON:DODS) issued a rather bleak profit warning today, citing challenging macroeconomic pressures and reducing their profit forecasts, with the expectation of a loss before tax for FY19. Market reaction was fairly predictable, with the price down 40% in early trade: The share price has been gradually declining… Read More »
Today’s RNS from Patisserie Valerie (LON:CAKE) appears to be just the latest in the long line of bad news stories for investors. Sadly, this might be the worst of them all, as it turns out that further misstatements were made on its accounts and that there is still no timescale for their shares to become… Read More »
Five-a-side operator Goals Soccer Centre (LON:GOAL) today issued a second profit warning in the space of half a year, guiding adjusted profits for the year lower ahead of the publication of results. This has been a tough, but not disastrous year for shareholders: the company seems to have put out bad news setting out a… Read More »
Revolutions Bars Group (LON:RBG), the operator of bars such as Revolution and Revolution Cuba bars today guided profits lower for FY19 as it reported increased costs and lower like-for-like sales in the first half of the year. To be quite truthful this is a rather mild event for the company in the past few years,… Read More »
Quiz (LON:QUIZ) shares sank by another 30% today as it updated the market on its Christmas sales. This has been an extremely poor period for Quiz as it’s last profit warning was back in October, which we wrote about here. Back then, the share price to 93p, a drop of 36.72%. Today another similar fall… Read More »
Plastic components manufacturer Carclo (LON:CAR) today suffered a share price fall of over 30% as it released a trading update warning that full year results would be significantly be below expectations. As in common with many small-caps issuing profit warnings, longer term investors are likely to be heavily disappointed. Some five years ago at its… Read More »
Halfords Group (LON:HFD) today put out a trading statement which painted a picture of future flat profits, which on closer reading actually constitutes a profit warning without referencing the term. The market was not impressed, with the share price falling 25% in early trading. This doesn’t tell the full story, and 2018 has been an… Read More »
Beleaguered footwear specialist Footasylum (LON:FOOT) today re-iterated the profit warning it gave way back in September. We wrote about the profit warning back then, when it took off 50% the share price. Today’s fresh warning had a more muted effect: in initial trading down 25%, but the share price has recovered somewhat since then: One… Read More »
A rather peculiar profit warning came out today from Gear4Music (LON:G4M). If you wanted to read a warning, you would have thought this would been it: profits and margins hit due to capacity constraints – it’s products have been selling well, too well in fact. The markets seem to have heavily disagreed with this assessment… Read More »
Agriculture specialist Plant Health Care (LON:PHC) today issued a new profit warning guiding profits materially below expectations despite bullish sounds over the past quarter regarding the development of its new patented-protected technology. Share prices reacted as expected, lopping off 30% the value of the company: This doesn’t reveal the full story. PHC has been a… Read More »