BEST SUPRATRADE STOCK PREDICT: LONDON Tips Watcher Alert (UK)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

LONDON Tips Watcher Alert (UK)

Date: Tuesday 01 Dec 2009

Annual results from Thomas Cook beat consensus expectations and also included an upbeat outlook for the coming year. With a price to earnings ratio of just 10.7 times, a considerable discount to rival TUI Travel, Thomas Cook is still a buy says the Independent.

Power station Drax supplies about 7% of the UK's power needs. Itsshare price has been hit hard by the low price of gas over the past year. This has made generating electricity using gas cheaper than using coal-fired power stations. If a real gas glut materialises the group's earnings will suffer. However, next year's impressive dividend seems underpinned and the shares are trading close to a historical low rating. Trading on a December 2009 earnings multiple of 7.8 falling to 6.4 next year and yielding almost 8%, shares in Drax are a buy says the Telegraph.

HSBC's listed infrastructure fund currently yields 5.4pc and it plans to increase its full-year dividend to 7p by 2013. At today's price, that implies a future yield of 6.2%. The stance remains buys says the Telegraph.

Fund manager Aberdeen is in good shape, especially after buying Credit Suisse's asset management arm earlier in the year, but there is a concern that a genuine market recovery could be some way off. It is not clear that markets have finished tying themselves in knots, however, and so hang fire for now. Hold says the Independent.

Aberdeen now boasts an extensive distribution network and is well placed to capture the rising sums of cash flowing into emerging markets equities, particularly Asia. At 140p, or less than 14 times current-year earnings, they have farther to go. Hold on adds the Times.

Shares in Lamprell fell nearly 12% last week, partly on concerns over the oil services group’s exposure to Dubai. Until its pipeline starts to produce firm orders, the discount of Lamprell’s shares to their sector — eight times forecasts earnings, against its peers’s 11 times when adjusted for cash — is unlikely to close. At 177½p, pass says the Times.

Resilient trading has taken pressure of marketing services groupCreston’s £35m of net borrowings, meaning that it should be able to repay its £20m of loan notes next year without recourse to a rights issue. It also plans to resume dividend payments. At 85p, or five times forecast earnings, hold says the Times.

First Property, the property investment company which has 80% of its money tied up in Poland, has recovered its confidence and is in the process of raising two new funds. The stock can be found in the bargain basement at the stock exchange. Buy says the Independent.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

LONDON Tips Watcher Alert (UK)

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