Not sure if there are any holders on here but here go's.



Johnson Matthey is a speciality chemicals company focused on its core skills in catalysis, precious metals, fine chemicals and process technology. Johnson Matthey's principal activities are the manufacture of autocatalysts, heavy duty diesel catalysts and pollution control systems, catalysts and components for fuel cells, catalysts and technologies for chemical processes, fine chemicals, chemical catalysts and active pharmaceutical ingredients and the marketing, refining, and fabrication of precious metals. Johnson Matthey has continued to develop its technology for almost 200 years, demonstrating the company's ability to maintain world leadership by adapting constantly to rapidly changing customer needs. Rigorous in its own environmental policies, many of Johnson Matthey's products have a major beneficial impact on the environment and enhance the quality of life for millions of people around the world. Johnson Matthey has operations in over 30 countries and employs around 9,000 people. Its products are sold across the world to a wide range of advanced technology industries. The group is organised into three global divisions: Environmental Technologies; Precious Metal Products and Fine Chemicals.

I looked at this one as a possible divi play but put off because of share conciliation at the same time.. Silly me! look at it go:
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The Lonmin incident and the price of Platinum playing a significant roll in SP hike no doubt.

Shares in Johnson Matthey continued their rebound today, putting on 62p for a 3% rise to £23.49. The price hit a peak of £25.79 recently, before falling back. But the firm, which produces speciality metals and chemicals, has been working with a number of partners in developing fuel-cell technology, and that is almost sure to be a big earner in the not-too-distant future.

The share price is up around 35% on the year, and with a forward P/E of 14 with dividends of 2.7% forecast, there isn't a lot of technology-led growth factored in.

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4488587 News not going down well so far. SP -6%!

Johnson Matthey gives gloomy outlook for second half
By Benjamin Chiou

Wed 21 Nov 2012

JMAT - Johnson Matthey

Latest Prices
Name Price %
Johnson Matthey 2,325.00p 0.00%

FTSE 100 5,744 -0.08%
FTSE 350 3,066 -0.07%
FTSE All-Share 3,002 -0.07%
Chemicals 8,676 -0.02%

LONDON (SHARECAST) - FTSE 100 platinum refiner Johnson Matthey reported a six per cent drop in profits in the first half and said that it doesn't expect things to pick up in the latter part of the fiscal year.

The company, which is a world leader in emissions control technologies, said that pre-tax profits declined from £195.1m to £183.4m year-on-year in the six months to September 30th.

This was on revenues that declined by 17% from £5,900bn to £4,892bn, owing mainly to a large fall in sales in the Precious Metals Products division. Group revenue excluding previous metals sales increased by 1% to £1,310m but missed the consensus forecast of £1,343m.

"Against a difficult market environment, particularly the impact of lower average precious metal prices, Johnson Matthey delivered growth in operating profit from Environmental Technologies and Fine Chemicals, although this was more than offset by the weaker performance of Precious Metal Products. Underlying earnings per share were maintained at 72.9p," said Chief Executive Neil Carson.

"Whilst precious metal prices have improved from their lows during the summer, largely due to the labour unrest in South Africa, the outlook in some of our other markets has weakened and visibility remains limited. We therefore expect that the group's performance in the second half will be similar to the first half of the year."

Well well, what a recovery today up just over 4.5%!

L&G go above 3% on these as well.

Final results: http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4609069 Market likes them, Up 8% so far!

Johnson Matthey (JMAT) has posted an 11 per cent reduction in full year revenues and a 13 per cent dip in profits to £354.9m with the precious metals division a particular weak spot. But a confident longer term outlook has helped its shares add 7 per cent in early trading.

Ceo cashes some in on Friday, SP dips a bit http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4610304 Going Ex. divi paying 41.5p this week.

NPH Garner dumps shares as well.. 6 to be exact -):

Black Rock go above 10% http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4641881

Black Rock go below 10% http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4651410

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Buy 2,792.00 2,792.00 2,950.00 2,950.00 Reiterates

Black Rock go above 10% http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4655131

Johnson Matthey topped the early leaderboard, climbing 126.5p to 2,947.5p after JP Morgan Cazenove upgraded the precious metals processor to overweight from neutral and hiked its target price to 4,000p from 2,800p.

Interims out today and up over 3.5% so far http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4710150

Goldman Sachs Buy 3,210.00 3,210.00 3,400.00 3,550.00 Reiterates

Citigroup Neutral 3,210.00 3,210.00 2,700.00 3,100.00 Retains

Deutsche Bank Buy 3,210.00 3,210.00 3,050.00 3,650.00 Retains

Johnson Matthey (JMAT), the chemicals group, announced a 31% increase in revenues to 6.4 billion pounds for the 6 months ended 30th September while underlying pre-tax profits were up by 13% at 213 million pounds. Management explained that the main driver of the improvement was a good performance from its Emerging Control Technologies division which benefitted from increased demand in Europe for heavy duty diesel vehicle catalysts ahead of the new European legislation which comes into effect at the start of 2014. The shares swelled by 116p to 3,210p.

Final Results http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4824150

Despite a number of headwinds, Johnson Matthey should be able to deliver double-digit underlying growth this year, according to Numis Securities which upgraded its rating on the stock on Thursday from 'hold' to 'add'.