Unilever (#ULVR) – FY2020 adj. EPS -2.4%, +4.1% at constant exchange & DPS up

Unilever (#ULVR) – Q3 “underlying sales” +4.4%, currency negative impact, DPS maintained

Go woke go broke - photo article from Wales: Ben & Jerry's

Okay, this is only one store in a medium sized Welsh village. The one I live in. Perhaps, unbeknown to me, absolutely all of my fellow villagers spend their nights re-reading the works of Ayn Rand, brushing up on Austrian economics or on the greatest 100 quotes of Ronald Reagan and we are somehow atypical. My instincts are that this is not an unusually enlightened place. And thus in light of my article earlier in the week on #BoycottBenandJerrys and the woke hypocrisy of Unilever (ULVR) I bring you a photo from the village store.

Go woke Go Broke – Ben and Jerry’s, Unilever, Priti Patel, and the stench of hypocrisy

Yesterday, I noted how the woke revolution sweeping listed companies was making the 1% richer at the expense of we plebs who just own shares. But big corporate is not only alienating shareholders with such antics but, in many cases, its customers too. Nowhere is the stench of this virtue signalling more apparent than at Ben and Jerry’s. But this saga is far worse.

Even if you panic-bought PG Tips & Domestos recently…Unilever shares are still borrrrrrrrrring

I have not been a fan of consumer staples behemoth Unilever (ULVR) for a long time, most recently in December noting 'still a sell...and wake me up at/around 40 quid a share'. Funnily enough, a quid or so below this mooted share price level was the price at which Unilever shares bottomed at a month or so ago. Anyhow I’ve been thinking about the company today following the publication of its first quarter initiatives...

Unilever (#ULVR) – 2019 adj. EPS +6%, quarterly DPS maintained, cautions H1 2020 “underlying sales growth will be below 3%”

In shares and life what matters is how you react

The next couple of weeks or so is peak earnings season for people such as myself who busy themselves with looking for opportunities across global equity markets.  Whilst many UK corporate names issue only a couple of meaty earnings updates a year, the average American, European or Asian company has a quarterly earnings cycle.  Thanks to the passage of time, I am less than two years away from racking up my one hundredth quarterly reporting period in what passes for my professional life and - during the last twenty three odd years - I have learnt that the key is how you react to numbers and not to focus on what they might say or even nominally if they have 'beaten' or 'missed'. 

This Great British Giant Holds Its Own, but Much Bigger Profits Seem Uncertain

Merry Christmas Share Smirkers, but I’m not really overjoyed at the prospects of the massive household goods supplier Unilever (ULVR). The company is truly huge and should withstand any big shocks, but sales are not rocketing...

Unilever (#ULVR) – “expects underlying sales growth for 2019 to be slightly below its guidance of the lower half of its 3-5% multi-year range”

Unilever's Chair tells you where value/opportunity is...

There are a lot of numbers out today but the regulatory disclosure that struck me the most was the comment from consumer staple behemoth Unilever (ULVR) that 'Marijn Dekkers has decided to step down as Chairman of the Board with immediate effect. Nils Andersen, Non-Executive Director, has been appointed by the Board to succeed Marijn as Chairman of Unilever'. Now at face value this appears rather boring but let us dig a little bit deeper…

Unilever (#ULVR) – H1 adj. EPS +5%, DPS +6%, FY “expect underlying sales growth to be in the lower half of our multi-year 3-5% range”

This Famous Brand-Owner May Not Be Spurred by Christmas Spending, but Neither should its Shares Fall in January

Hello, Share Rascals. For a change, let me steer away from my topical suggestions on which shares to buy and sell in the run-up to Christmas. Because there are still big companies which are not really affected by any Yule rush to buy. One of them is Unilever (ULVR).

Unilever (#ULVR) – CEO Paul Polman “to retire”, current President, Beauty & Personal Care Alan Jope appointed as successor

Unilever (#ULVR) – Q3 ‘underlying sales’ +3.8%, “remain on track”

Unilever (#ULVR) – following ‘shareholder engagement’, withdraws redomiciliation proposal

Unilever (#ULVR) – publishes documentation for “simplification” to single Netherlands holding company

Unilever - buy a Magnum, not the shares

Back in the dim and distant past, when the issue of the prevailing weather and the stock market came up the stock that would be uppermost in the minds of institutional fund managers was that consumer behemoth Unilever (ULVR) and its significant - and volatile - ice cream division. Unilever still does ice creams (Carte D'Or, Cornetto, Magnum, Solero, Twister, Choc Ice, Super Split, Fat Frog, Feast, Brunch, Viennetta...take your pick) and no doubt it is coining it in today on the hottest day of the year so far, but that is not as influential as it used to be.

Unilever (#ULVR) – Q1 underlying sales +2.9%, DPS +12%, “on track”

Unilever (#ULVR) – announces strategic review outcomes

The Unilever Kraft Marriage is Off - but for How Long?

Hello Share Trouncers. We’ve already discussed the likelihood of take-overs of big British firms now that we have a low pound following the Brexit vote. An example is Unilever (ULVR) and Kraft Heinz. So now let’s look at the Unilever situation more closely.