UK 19:59 Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
Stanley Gibbons (SGI) has updated that “it is currently uncertain whether high value sales completed by 30 September 2015 will be at the level required to achieve the group's internal budgets for the first half of the year” but that “the directors continue to believe that the group will achieve market forecasts for the full year ended 31 March 2016”
Yes I know that it has just had a profits warning and that the old adage is that warnings come in threes. But I do not expect that to be the case with Stanley Gibbons (SGI) and so it is my third share tip for Easter at 249p.
Stanley Gibbons (SGI) has disappointingly announced that “because a number of anticipated high value sales within the group's retail business were not completed in the run up to the (31st March) year end… it is expected that results will be materially below current market expectations”. The following updates with the shares now 8.5% lower in response at 241p-246p…
As I explained in my Christmas Day 10 macro themes for 2015 I generally cautious on UK equities – hence my decision to run with 5 buys and 5 sells in my NY selection (three more to come by Sunday night). As such my seventh tip is one you may deem cautious but I see 35% capital upside in it plus dividends and very limited downside. I refer to Stanley Gibbons (SGI), a buy at a 290p offer and at up to 300p with a target of 400p.
Stanley Gibbons (SGI) has announced results for its half year ended 30th September 2014 and that “the board look forward to the second half of the financial year with confidence”. Good News fr our readers at the Nifty Fifty but there is more to come!
Stanley Gibbons (SGI) has announced a recommended £8.6 million (60p per share) cash offer for Mallett plc (MAE) - one of the oldest established antique dealers in the world, specialising in furniture and works of art and with interests also in restoration. Gibbons sees the move as “furthering its ambition to become a global auction house for collectibles” and considers it “a logical and affordable next step for us to acquire a valuable brand and relevant assets. The Mallett business will expand Stanley Gibbons's expertise into an adjacent collectibles area, drive significant cross-selling opportunities across the combined businesses and build a stronger auction platform in the collectibles marketplace”.
Stanley Gibbons (SGI) has announced it has exchanged contracts on a £4.5 million sale of its freehold property at Adelphi Terrace in London, with completion scheduled on or before 17th November. The company added that by this time all of its specialist collectibles trading and auctions divisions will be co-located at its Strand premises.
We tipped Stanley Gibbons (SGI) at a 225p offer price on the Nifty Fifty and with the shares now at 310p we are – dividends included more than 40% ahead but following yesterday’s AGM statement we still see material upside in the shares.
I tipped Stanley Gibbons (SGI) at 225p back in November 2012 on my Nifty Fifty Website. We have picked up a 3% yield along the way and the shares closed Friday at 290p. So not a bad share tip so far. But there is a long way to go. The stock is still a buy.
In the wake of 15 month results out today from stamp and coin retailer Stanley Gibbons (SGI), the house broker Peel Hunt has published a buy note at 278p with a 400p target.
Philately is a pursuit that many view on a par with watching paint dry, but it can involve large sums of money. When it comes to stamp collecting, and other similar investments, Stanley Gibbons (SGI) is probably the best known company in the business, having been established back in 1856.
Ahead of changing its financial year end from 31st December to 31st March (to “provide management with an improved level of visibility of the performance of the enlarged group throughout the financial calendar”), Stanley Gibbons (SGI) has announced 2013 results.
At the end of last month, leading stamps and collectibles group Stanley Gibbons (SGI) announced a £1 million acquisition of Murray Payne Ltd, a leading expert business in British Commonwealth philately. At 375p, shares of Stanley Gibbons are 67% above the 225p offer price at which they were added to the Growth portfolio of the Nifty Fifty in late 2012. The stock has continued its positive momentum into 2014.
Stanley Gibbons (SGI) has been a cracking share tip from myself and Tom but following a trading statement yesterday I reckon that there is more to come.
The cloak of anonymity provided to the Closet Chartist means that within reason one can take pot shots at the hubris of those in the financial markets and beyond. For instance, did anyone really get Gold and mining stocks right since the bubble burst at the end of 2011?
Noble Investments (NBL) has announced that it has received an approach from Stanley Gibbons (SGI) of a possible takeover of 255p per Noble share (circa £42 million) – comprising 192.5p per share in cash and 62.5p in new Stanley Gibbons shares – which, if made, it has indicated it is likely to unanimously recommend to shareholders. Since I have tipped BOTH stocks on my Nifty Fifty website I am celebrating, but what now?
