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Even a few of our detractors have now come around
It is hard to find anything positive to say about the interims from Centrica (CNA) this morning. Perhaps the most positive thing is that the dividend hasn’t been stopped altogether, but given the big slide in the share price the new target of 5p per share in dividend means a yield of 7.5%, suggesting that the market still doesn’t believe that is sustainable and thus might get chopped again...
I commented HERE some three months ago that fully-listed Centrica (CNA) bosses seemed to be helping themselves to big piggy pay-rises and bonuses ahead of chopping the dividend. Well here we are: the papers are full of stories that the payout it indeed now to be hacked.
Maybe I’m just a blinkered old fool, but I just cannot believe that Jeremy Corbyn will get his feet into Number 10. As such, the biggest part (for me) of the case to sell Centrica (CNA) falls apart in my view. Here is why.
Centrica (CNA) has been a head in hands investment for the last couple of years...but I do hope that Gary is correct with his assertion the other week about the medium-term recovery potential given i am a (modest) holder.
The past couple of years haven’t been great for FTSE100 stock Centrica (CNA), including the share price having halved during that time, but it could have recovery prospects from the current share price...
I am a patient investor and Centrica has had its fair share of problems. Some have been self-inflicted (losing customers), some imposed on it (the government price-cap) and some hark back to the previous regime and others are just a difficult market. As a shareholder, I’m sure the board will do what is necessary to get things back on track. Yet in the face of falling profits and the dividend under serious threat I see monster pay rises. That, in my view, is totally unacceptable.
