red = 25dma
green = 50 dma
black = 200 dma


The Telegraph says the banks like Southern Cross Healthcare, and so it seems to have an almost endless supply of new capital. It recently secured �300m to fund acquisition plans. It also develops its own sites and hopes to add 1,000 beds this year. A good operator with a proven model, Southern Cross is well worth buying.

annual reports etc available from www.schealthcare.co.uk


have just bought for myself at 355

WW III here we come :o)

actually i succumbed yesterday and bought back in, albeit at even higher than i could have done when i first posted ...... at least today's Times say "Buy Southern Cross Healthcare"

Yep, the Indy seems quite impressed too.

Well done cynic, wish I had caught this one when you first posted.

wish i had not sold first time around ..... hindsight is great stuff but cannot hold everything and also add to positions elsewhere

according to latest RNS, it's still cheap even after chugging up another pathetic 16p this morning!

chart logic says that sp is well ahead of the game, but the markets and the impetus behind sp contradicts .... as a holder am very happy to continue to do so (at least pro tem), but could not recommend buying at these levels .... nevertheless, suggest putting on your "watchlist" with a view to buying on any weakness.

weakness this morning without any apparent reason .... if sp hits 25 dma (about 470 but rising), then consider buying

glad i followed that advice the other day ..... i c i just about have this thread to myself .... still, as they say, "You can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" ..... company and share go from strength to strength .... my only (slight) concern is that rsi is almost permanently o'bought or thereabouts, but with sp surging into new high ground, it is difficult (or stupid?) to bet against the trend

and still sp tracks strongly upwards ...... volumes are not huge, but not minuscule either ...... puzzling, though i guess it's not impossible that someone has them sighted as a t/o target

RNS yesterday re figures says it all ....

Southern Cross Healthcare Group PLC, Britain's biggest care home operator, posted a 42 pct surge in first-half adjusted earnings on the back of a raft of acquisitions, and signalled the company is still on the look out for further purchases.

In the half year to April 1 adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation climbed 42 pct to 21.8 mln stg from the same period last year.

Adjusted earnings per share swung to 7.72 pence from a loss of 4.55 pence. Revenues jumped 17 pct to 336.3 mln stg.


SP is up from 462 (now 551) on 2nd April and still climbing and climbing ..... oh dear!

if i was not already o'weight here, i would definitely be buying ..... sp neatly on on 25 dma and strengthening and and rsi has dropped back to fairly neutral

With you cynic, picked up a small investment this morning based on your postings and my research---just to dip my toe!

Water feels welcomingly nice.

Have a great day.

don't expect fireworks, but if you look back since i first ramped (lol!!) this share here, you will see how it has just climbed and climbed yet STILL has plenty going for it

This will crash and burn shortly, in my opinion.

URAMIN (UMN) is a much better place to invest.

60p last September - over 300p now !!!

Dump this and buy URAMIN is my advice. Still plenty to go.

the one has nothing to do with the other ..... what is the logic behind your statement? ...... anyway, if you are so convinced, then go short SCHE ..... fyi, i already hold sufficient UMN

As far as profitability goes, in terms of percentage gained, it gas a lot to do with it - because I am making a comparison.

I repeat: dump this one and buy URAMIN.

eggs and baskets come to mind ...... am more than happy to keep running my profit here until there is compelling reason to bank the (large) profit ...... if i did not already hold sufficient UMN and/or was short of funds, there are other stocks in my portfolio which i would dump prior to SCHE

?????????????? Is an orange superior or inferior to a melon? ...... but clearly you can't read either ..... i already hold a sufficiency of UMN