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Easyjet's new CFO: jumping out of the fire into the...?

2020-09-18 10:28:37

Well good luck to Kenton Jarvis who will be joining easyJet (EZJ) at some point in the next few months as its new CFO.  The budget airline may have raised money recently to strengthen their balance sheet, but you do not need to be an investing geek to know life is just a bit uncertain for any operator in this sector.  I talked about this with Tom W yesterday in a video that will go live later today. And certainly my conclusion is that whilst easyJet is a company with a strong offering and a real link with consumer demand/preferences, it can only buck the cycle for so long.  But...

easyJet (#EZJ) – current CEO of Aviation & Business Improvement Director - Markets, at TUI, Kenton Jarvis, to join as CFO

2020-09-18 07:46:24

easyJet (#EZJ) – “now expects to fly slightly less than the 40% of planned capacity for Q4 2020 which was highlighted at our Q3 trading update”

2020-09-08 07:17:18

easyJet PLC (#EZJ) – conclusion of sale & leaseback programme for a total of 23 aircraft, generating $771m

2020-08-14 07:16:25

easyJet (#EZJ) – Q3 update & July “flew just over 2 million passengers with a load factor of 84%”

2020-08-04 07:30:02

easyJet - the data breach is not in my top three worries (and I own the shares!)

2020-06-28 12:29:01

As the old saying going about air travel, “every takeoff is optional...every landing is mandatory.”  For investors, the sector is certainly always just an option.  I cannot remember when I have ever thought of the space as a mandatory part of my portfolio.  I may be wrong, but I think I have only ever owned two airline stocks across my whole investment life. 

easyJet – could its record data breach cost it £18 billion and sink the airline?

2020-06-26 12:58:21

It seems that some folks with three brains think that with a £450 million fund raise just completed, the worst is behind it for EasyJet (EZJ). But is it? Might its mega data breach referred to only en passant by the company be enough to sink it?. That spectre is raised by accountingweb today. The maths seem straightforward.

easyJet (#EZJ) – £419m placing at 703p per share

2020-06-25 07:56:54

easyJet – CFO says he's off. Shares rise 15%!

2020-05-26 12:49:00

One of the earliest lessons I learnt as a neophyte investor too many years ago to remember is that correlation does not imply causality. The above headline is a good example of this. Both events have happened today and both are worthy of some comment, but I suggest the linkage between the two is nebulous at best...

easyJet (#EZJ) – Stelios' questions for GM

2020-05-22 07:59:59

easyJet (#EZJ) – a “small number” of flights to restart on 15th June

2020-05-21 07:19:46

The Corrupt Deadwood Press: The Sunday Times on NMC and backing Easyjet’s board

2020-04-19 12:53:25

I have flagged up the corrupt nature of the deadwood press, and the Sunday Times in particular, numerous times on this website. The way it blew off Neil Woodford in return for “scoops" and again and again backs boards, who by dint of underperformance, are quite rightly under fire with dirty attacks on their critics is shameful. Babcock (BAB) is a case in point. Today the paper shows its true colours again with its coverage of NMC Health (NMC) and more especially, and shamefully, of EasyJet (EZJ).

BREAKING: Sir Stelios brands Easyjet board scoundrels, wants CFO fired, says chairman plays "dirty trick" tries for EGM a second time

2020-04-08 09:25:18

Easyjet (EZJ) founder and largest shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has hit out at the Easyjet board, terming them scoundrels, and slated Airbus as a bribe giving arms maufacturer in a stinging letter out this morning. As you can see below, he does not mince his words.

easyJet (#EZJ) – GM requisition from easyGroup (Sir Stelios) to remove non-exec Andreas Bierwirth as a director

2020-04-02 07:59:59

Bombshell letter in full: Sir Stelios wants to sack EasyJet NEDS demands to know if executives took bribes from Airbus

2020-03-30 12:50:03

The founder of EasyJet (EZJ) has written to the board demanding it scrap £4.5 billion of planned Airbus orders, asking if any executives took bribes from Airbus and demanding wholesale boardroom change. The letter is dynamite and I reproduce it in full below:

easyJet (#EZJ) – grounded its aircraft, “in ongoing discussions with liquidity providers”

2020-03-30 07:16:37

easyJet (#EZJ) – “further significant cancellations… taking every action to remove cost and non-critical expenditure”

2020-03-16 07:50:36

easyJet (#EZJ) – notes some slower demand, delivering “operational efficiency and cost savings… to help mitigate”

2020-02-28 07:21:54

Disembarking from my easyJet trade

2019-11-22 09:45:38

Given I have undertaken a return trip to Dubai in the last three days (technically between Tuesday and Thursday - don't ask!) you would have thought I would have had enough thinking or talking about the airline sector. But musing about numbers from easyJet (EZJ) from Tuesday is no chore, because it is time to sell up and take some profits…

easyJet (#EZJ) – FY adj. EPS -25%, DPS -25%, argues “forward bookings for the first half of the 2020 financial year are reassuring”

2019-11-19 07:36:52

A Bevy of Headwinds Could Outweigh the Tailwinds for this Budget Airline

2019-10-10 08:18:39

Hello Share Twiddlers. Airlines are a difficult area for me. Not since I ditched my old British Airways shares yonks ago have I dabbled in the sector. As a pilot might say: there seem to be more headwinds than tailwinds. The budget operator easyJet (EZJ) is a company which currently performs above City expectations. But for how long?...

easyJet (#EZJ) – expects FY profit in upper half of previous guidance range, Q1 forward bookings “currently in line with the same time last year”

2019-10-08 07:10:42

easyJet: 'Desire for leisure travel continues to be important'

2019-05-17 09:37:14

easyJet (EZJ) shares have been under the cosh in recent weeks due to the rum mixture of consumer spending being under pressure and the inevitable Brexit uncertainty. I know the latter is a bit of a 'go to' for many corporate names, but for a company such as easyJet it actually matters if any new impediments occur to travel or restrictions on ownership. The latter has been a real hassle for the company because of a need to show majority control by European Union-centric investors in order to keep maximum corporate flexibility...

easyJet (#EZJ) – H1 increased loss, argues FY profit expectations remain unchanged

2019-05-17 07:23:51

easyJet slides again but time to pull back on the share purchasing throttle?

2019-04-01 02:50:52

So another week of Brexit-related excitement awaits. I have almost given up trying to predict the next twists and turns but there is always a practical impact and we have seen this from easyJet (EZJ) this morning…

easyJet (#EZJ) – updates on expected H1 loss, “outlook for H2 is now more cautious”

2019-03-31 23:18:50

easyJet (#EZJ) – update on EU ownership and control requirements & contingency plan

2019-03-22 00:16:24

easyJet (#EZJ) – in discussions with Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and Delta Air Lines re. Alitalia

2019-02-14 00:24:32

Trading Update Review: EasyJet, GVC Holdings and Just Eat

2019-01-26 02:16:09

EasyJet (EZJ), GVC Holdings (GVC) and Just Eat (JE.) all released eagerly-anticipated trading updates within the last week, so it’s no surprise that they’ve been attracting the most attention from brokers and tipsters amongst LSE-listed companies over the last seven days. In this week’s article, we take a look at how brokers and tipsters have interpreted the most recent numbers, and what sentiment towards these three firms has looked like over the last seven days.

easyJet's correlation with the Brexit fear factor

2018-11-21 02:30:25

easyJet (EZJ) shares lost a bit of altitude yesterday and it was not really clear why, with profits growth of 41% aided by a revenue expansion of 17% and helped by the company pushing up ancillary seat revenue and continuing to push out an ongoing cost saving programme. Meanwhile income investors were well served with the ordinary dividend being pushed up 43%. The share is now yielding basically 5%. However, and despite dubbing itself the ‘best performing airline in Europe in 2018’, shares in the company fell back around 5% due seemingly to the ‘B’ word...

Chris Bailey, Farm Animals, Airlines, Nuclear Energy and the Big Dilemma.

2018-10-06 07:06:38

Hello, Share Scrimpers. Some of us consider ourselves ethical investors. We do not buy shares in companies with products and services which we think may harm people or the environment. But some of us have different views on what is ‘ethical. Now my colleague on this beautiful site Chris Bailey is an enlightened man. 

Getting sleazy with easyJet

2018-09-29 06:03:27

We all love to hate the low cost airline carriers but at least easyJet (EZJ) has not completely shot itself in the foot like its great peer Ryanair (RYA) which appears incapable of having even half reasonable internal labour relations.  EasyJet has also been smart in taking advantage of some airline sector developments by hiring staff from the failed UK airline Monarch and buying assets in Germany following the Air Berlin bankruptcy.  

easyJet (#EZJ) – expects FY in upper half of previous profit guidance; at ‘headline’ PBT of £570m-£580m

2018-09-28 06:10:23

Easyjet and the nasty food currency scam it inflicts on its customers

2018-07-20 09:42:14

I travel Easyjet (EZY) often. In the winter it is Bristol to Athens and back, in the summer it is Gatwick to Kalamata and back.  Usually it is no worse and no better than any other budget airline. Not that I really care but I just want to point out a quite obvious scam it inflicts on its passengers.

Why EasyJet May Not Find It Quite As Easy in the Future

2018-07-20 07:04:28

Hello Share Pickers. I've ventured to suggest recently that airline shares may be a bit too risky at the mo. It's the headwind of the rising oil price that puts me off. You'd be amazed at the huge volumes of the ebony nectar they devour to keep a million passengers aloft at any one time.

Hat Tip to Easyjet CEO Johan Lundgren for taking me seriously as a customer

2018-03-13 04:06:08

You may remember that in a podcast (HERE) on 4th March I recalled a horrific 22 hour trip from Kalamata, via Athens Airport, to Bristol made hellish not just by snow but by the behaviour of EasyJet (EZJ) staff who repeatedly lied to me and fellow passengers. last night I sent that podcast to EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren with a note:

As Airports Fill Up for Christmas, EasyJet Could Fly Up and Away

2017-12-21 01:16:17

Hello, Share Smoothers. There's no point in my knocking the service given by the budget airline Easyjet (EZJ). For one thing, it would be hypocritical as I use the service more than any other flyer. This will no doubt apply to many of the other passengers swelling the airports for Christmas. And at last I am able to commend your further research into the company, as things are looking up.

easyJet (#EZJ) – confirms acquisition of part of operations of Air Berlin

2017-12-18 00:38:43

easyJet (#EZJ) – €40m acquisition of part of operations of Air Berlin

2017-10-30 00:34:43

Like Yorkshire Airlines, This Avation Giant's Shares May Go Hey Up! - and Away

2017-10-09 00:08:19

Hello, Share Scoopers. We all know that investing in airlines is one of the riskier areas of share shifting. What with the Ryanair (RYA) situation and the end of good old Monarch. But the more speculative among us should not, given a huge surge in air travel, give up on the flying sector altogether. So may I suggest that you look at another British-based budget airline.

easyJet (#EZJ) – FY “headline” PBT “expected to be at the upper end of guidance range”

2017-10-05 23:40:45

EasyJet 2 big takeaways and one is SELL

2017-07-24 02:32:40

Before he became a resource guru, Andrew Monk of VSA Resources was a transport analyst for many years. As such his comments today about Easyjet (EZJ). The point about executive greed, oops I meant incentivisation, is a very valid general one. The other point is ...SELL. Over to the Monkey who writes...  

EasyJet's Income Has Taken Off, but I'm Not Sure the Share Prospects Are Flying High

2017-07-21 00:01:17

Hello, Share Pingers. Budget airline EasyJet (EZJ) has issued a trading statement to say that passengers in its third quarter were up by more than nearly 11% to 22 million. Revenues improved by 16% to £1.4 billion.

Easyjet's big challenge: not Brexit but who's the new captain?

2017-07-20 01:57:33

I really do commend to you the search capability on the ShareProphets website because it provides a great short-cut to who-said-what-when. It was last August when I last mentioned Easyjet (EZJ) and since then the stock has been volatile but positive. Ok, it certainly did take a bit longer than I thought AND there were a couple of sub 1000p/share diversions...but you know what it is like with these low-cost airlines: take-off is not always precisely on time...but you get there eventually.

EasyJet Is No Easy Bet while the Pound Flies Low

2016-10-11 00:14:16

Hello Share Plinkers. The old memory is not what it was, but I think I may have commended Easyjet (EZJ) to your further researches not so long ago. But stories change all the time, as Uncle Tom often reminds us, and circumstances have altered over the budget airliner.

easyJet (#EZJ) – FY pre-tax profit expected to be in the range of £490m-£495m

2016-10-05 23:20:52

French strikes, Brexit, Egypt terror, weather = Easyjet (#EZJ) profits warning

2016-06-26 23:44:12

easyJet will continue to see strong growth in the future

2016-05-25 00:20:15

Shares in a number of companies in the airlines sector are looking quite appealing at the current levels that they are trading at, and for me EasyJet (EZJ) falls into that category.

Ryanair’s comments tell me to buy EasyJet

2016-05-23 02:18:57

I have an idea what Ryanair (RYA) supremo Michael O’Leary might say to this idea but reading through his company’s full year update today I could not help but think that it is time to buy EasyJet (EZJ).

Willie obsessed Easyjet - An Apology that just does not wash

2016-03-25 03:54:14

Back at Easyjet (EZJ), as CEO Carolyn McCall agonises about how she can get more women flying her planes, her Customer (lack of) Services Teams has emailed a apology to those folks whose Cretan holidays it trashed on Wednesday, including me. The apology is vague and does not wash. I Fiske it below.

Airlines Should Fly in 2016 - and the Best Flyer of All could be Easyjet.

2015-12-23 01:40:15

Hello Share Scrapers. Shares dropped in value by 10% this year. Which means if you had a portfolio of £1m, then you are down £100,000. Ouchipoo! I expect your holding is a lot less than that. And any road up, we should always remember that a 10% loss is nothing in the great scheme of things. One year, I recall shares rose by 137%. (Or was it even more?)

It’s Hey Up and Away! as this Yorkshire Lad Suggests We Look at Airlines.

2015-11-24 05:51:24

Hello Share Muddlers: In an earlier piece this week, I opined that we should not be fearful of investing in airlines, just because murderous terrorists are at large. The argument was that there are so few airline incidents that the chances of being embroiled in one are more or less nil. And yet airline shares have suffered in the last few weeks. Ever since that crash of the flight from Egypt to Russia, to be exact. 

Don’t Let Empty Fear Put You Off Investing in Airlines.

2015-11-23 06:52:35

When the Paris massacre happened, I’m ashamed to tell you what one of my first thoughts was. Am I safe attending the Gold Bears and Traders Show at Westminster, London, this Saturday?

Easyjet (#EZJ) - Significant profit upgrade

2015-09-02 23:05:16

Easyjet (#EZJ) - July passenger stats, up 9.4% on a year ago

2015-08-05 23:10:16

Only buy EasyJet when its shares lose a bit of altitude

2015-03-27 02:21:24

I was on an EasyJet (EZJ) plane yesterday and a generally fairly pleasant experience it was too.  Admittedly there were not free drinks or nibbles, I had to print out my own boarding card (in a personal technological first I actually downloaded it to my phone – who said you cannot teach an old dog new tricks!) and there were attempts to cross-sell me all sorts of things I did not want but as an overall A-to-B travel experience it was absolutely fine and did what it said on the tin without being too minimalist or crude. 

EasyJet (#EZJ) says H1 metrics will be ahead of forecast

2015-03-26 00:23:49

There Could Be More Easy Money in EasyJet

2015-03-24 01:17:46

Hello Share Fiends. I've never been a fan of airlines as an investment. It always seemed to me that the risks of everyday running were too high.