BT (#BT.A) – agreement to combine respective international operations in a joint venture with Verizon Communications

BT (#BT.A) – Q3 update, “remain on track for our financial outlook and guidance metrics”

BT (#BT.A) – FY adj. EPS slightly up to 18.8p and DPS to 8.16p, raising “full fibre” target while maintaining cash flow guidance

BT Group (#BT.A) – states “look forward to ongoing and positive engagement” with Bharti

BT Group (#BT.A) – Bharti Global agreement to acquire c.24.5% shareholding in the group from Altice

BT Group (#BT.A) – fined £17.5m by Ofcom for 999 call-handling failures

BT (#BT.A) – Q3 adj. revenue +3% YoY, adj. EBITDA +1%, “on track” for FY financial outlook

BT (#BT.A) – H1 adj. EPS +3% to 10.3p, DPS maintained at 2.31p, positive on FY outlook

BT Group announces its new incoming CEO. Such excitement…not!

I observed last Thursday that, “I still remain rather grumpy about the recent decision from the CEO of BT Group (BT.A) to exit the business, given he has still got loads of his promised job to do”. Therefore, is it good news that “BT Group plc today announces the appointment of Allison Kirkby as Chief Executive…she will take over from Philip Jansen as Chief Executive around the end of January 2024 at the latest”?

BT (#BT.A) – President & CEO of Telia and current BT non-exec Allison Kirkby to become CEO

BT (#BT.A) – CEO Philip Jansen “to step down” over the next 12 months, “conducting a formal succession process”

More headlines for BT Group's long-suffering shareholders to think about

I said a couple of months ago, that I was keeping on holding my BT Group (BT.A) shares, but I am even more officially hacked off with them now. It is nothing to with my monthly home phone, broadband, mobile and related bill, which is pretty cheap given the family (and me) access it just a little bit every day. No, what I am disappointed about is the news that “the FTSE-100 telecoms giant is working with head hunters on a search for a successor to Philip Jansen after he was approached about several US-based roles”...

BT Group (#BT.A) – Altice acquires further shares to take shareholding to 24.5%, restates does not intend to make an offer

Why I am keeping on holding my easyJet and BT Group shares (for the time being)

I mentioned a month ago that easyJet (EZJ) was “looking forward to more summer holidays this year”. Today’s formal numbers for its half-year to the end of March are absolutely fine, talking about growing capacity, launching more flights out of Birmingham airport, boosting profit from holiday offers and “mid teen EBITDAR margin…low to mid teen ROCE”. Obviously, the latter two metrics are a bit comical but, as I shared with you at the link above, I think max future holiday hope hype for 2023-24 will occur in the late summer/early autumn period with this one. I think there will be a chance to sell my shares at 550p+ later this year and so continue to hold. So if easyJet is alright, what about BT Group (BT.A)?

BT (#BT.A) – Q3 update, profit down, reaffirms outlook for full-year

The ‘excitable’ world of BT Group

It is not over-egging the pudding to describe today’s interim 2022/23 numbers from BT Group (BT.A) as boring. After all, you do not need to be a financial genius to see its year-on-year adjusted revenue to be up by 1% and its adjusted EBITDA number to be up a massive 2%. And we have not even started to appraise whether the “adjusted” nature of the numbers had boosted them materially or not. However, there are other numbers of far more significance for BT Group and its, down c.6% as I write, share price.

BT (#BT.A) – H1 adj. EPS -2%, DPS maintained, increasing cost savings target

BT (#BT.A) – no further government action re. increase in shareholding by Altice to 18%

Will I ever see my two quid and out BT Group target?

Just under a week ago I wrote about how boring BT Group (BT.A) shares are. However, whilst I was right to buy a bunch of the shares a couple of years ago, when the share price has moved very close to my two quid share price target I have failed to book my profit and run. But what has gone, has gone and what am I going to do with the shares that today are down about 5% to just shy of 168p?

BT (#BT.A) – CMA approval for Warner Bros. Discovery sports joint venture