Guinness Peat Group(GPG)

Sector:

General Financial

Market Cap

£715.57m

Change Today

Price Down-0.50p

Share Price

50.50p

Guinness Peat to raise stake in Tower

Date: Friday 02 May 2008

LONDON (ShareCast) - Investment firm Guinness Peat has made a partial cash offer for New Zealand risk insurance firm Tower Limited in order to raise its stake to 35%.

Guinness Peat will offer NZ$2.30p (90p) per share to purchase up to 29m shares, or 15.30% of the firm. It already holds 19.7% of Tower’s issued shares.

Gross assets of Tower at 30 September 2007 were NZ$1.54bn (£606m) with pre-tax profits at $55m (£22m).

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GPG Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 50.50p Price Down
Change Today -0.50p
52 Week High 65.91
52 Week Low 49.50
Volume 20,120
Shares Issued 1,416.98m
Market Cap £715.57m
Beta 0.05
RiskGrade 109

Performance Indicators

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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
90.86% above the market average90.86% above the market average90.86% above the market average90.86% above the market average90.86% above the market average
78.35% above the sector average78.35% above the sector average78.35% above the sector average78.35% above the sector average78.35% above the sector average
Price Trend
0.75% above the market average0.75% above the market average0.75% above the market average0.75% above the market average0.75% above the market average
16.21% above the sector average16.21% above the sector average16.21% above the sector average16.21% above the sector average16.21% above the sector average
Income
64.92% above the market average64.92% above the market average64.92% above the market average64.92% above the market average64.92% above the market average
25.53% above the sector average25.53% above the sector average25.53% above the sector average25.53% above the sector average25.53% above the sector average
Growth
85.89% above the market average85.89% above the market average85.89% above the market average85.89% above the market average85.89% above the market average
81.72% above the sector average81.72% above the sector average81.72% above the sector average81.72% above the sector average81.72% above the sector average
Price Chg 6m
5.05% above the market average5.05% above the market average5.05% above the market average5.05% above the market average5.05% above the market average
14.62% above the sector average14.62% above the sector average14.62% above the sector average14.62% above the sector average14.62% above the sector average
P/E
64.31% above the market average64.31% above the market average64.31% above the market average64.31% above the market average64.31% above the market average
47.45% above the sector average47.45% above the sector average47.45% above the sector average47.45% above the sector average47.45% above the sector average
PEG
92.61% above the market average92.61% above the market average92.61% above the market average92.61% above the market average92.61% above the market average
83.78% above the sector average83.78% above the sector average83.78% above the sector average83.78% above the sector average83.78% above the sector average
Dividend Yield
52.57% below the market average52.57% below the market average52.57% below the market average52.57% below the market average52.57% below the market average
80.43% below the sector average80.43% below the sector average80.43% below the sector average80.43% below the sector average80.43% below the sector average
EPS Growth
94.74% above the market average94.74% above the market average94.74% above the market average94.74% above the market average94.74% above the market average
94.55% above the sector average94.55% above the sector average94.55% above the sector average94.55% above the sector average94.55% above the sector average
Operating Margin
22.11% above the market average22.11% above the market average22.11% above the market average22.11% above the market average22.11% above the market average
8.74% above the sector average8.74% above the sector average8.74% above the sector average8.74% above the sector average8.74% above the sector average

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 2
Buy 1
Neutral 1
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0
Total 4
buy
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GPG Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Final Final
Ex-Div 05-Mar-08 07-Mar-07
Paid 19-May-08 21-May-07
Amount 1.00p 1.00p

Trades for 05-Sep-2008

Time Volume / Share Price
11:59 20,120 @ 48.00p

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