Floorcoverings distributor group Headlam (HEAD) has issued an AGM trading update including that it “continues to be comfortable with profit expectations for the year”. So what of a current 338p share price?
Europe's leading floorcoverings distributor group Headlam Group (HEAD) has announced its results for the 2021 calendar year and said “trading in January and February 2022 in line with plan, with the strong margin performance in 2021 maintained into 2022”.
I am sure that almost everyone is feeling more comfortable about the stock market today…except anyone who sold all their positions a day or two ago. Of course one day of positive performance means very little, but that is the markets for you. Nearly fifty percent of days will be up…and nearly fifty percent will be down and the real key - apart from finding some innovative and sensible corporate names - is to buy when others are fearful and sell when others are greedy. So I do hope you bought some more of a share or two you like late last week or early this week. As for today, I’ve been looking at latest corporate numbers and, like the complete sad sack I am, so far have racked up three corporate conference calls...
Just under a week ago I talked about Headlam Group (HEAD), noting I have been a bit of a fanboy after doubling my holding during 2020 but I had a couple of questions for the company at an upcoming planned conference call (despite last week’s update observing “profit slightly ahead of expectations, with strong cash generation…Early trading in 2022 has been encouraging…has continued to be able to largely mitigate the persisting industry wide supply issues and associated inflationary pressures”). However because it was the first day of February and hence I was a bit busy, I did not make the live call. However - thanks to the power of the internet - I caught up with it earlier today. So what did I think?
I have been a bit of a fanboy of Headlam Group (HEAD) - Europe's leading floorcoverings distributor, providing the channel between suppliers and trade customers of floorcoverings - for a while now. So what did its ‘trading and ESG update’ say today?
Floorcoverings distributor Headlam (HEAD) has announced that Steve Wilson has “stepped down” as Chief Executive and from the company having “been instrumental in the company's success throughout his 30 years with Headlam, the last five years as Chief Executive”. Bad news or time for a change?
There is typically always lots of corporate reporting on a Thursday. I am not surprised to see Shell (RDSB) shares down today, despite talking about a boost to its cashflow in the third quarter. Alternatively on the share price rise of Mondi (MNDI), which might have chatted about a 'strong performance in the third quarter with higher average prices across the business and strong volume growth year-on-year’, but also ‘a backdrop of sharply higher input costs’. As always with shares, you have to try and work out what is already factored in (and what is not). Anyhow, I thought I would talk about Headlam (HEAD), Europe's ‘leading floorcoverings distributor, providing the channel between suppliers and trade customers of floorcoverings’.
