Tesco is one of the worlds leading international retailers. Since the company first the trading name of Tesco, in the mid 1920s, the group has expanded into different formats, different markets and different sectors. The UKs leading retailer Tesco was floated on the stock exchange in 1947 and in 1995 took over rival Sainsburys position as the UK number one. The principal activity of the group is food retailing, with over 2,000 stores worldwide. Tesco has a long term strategy for growth, based on four key parts: growth in the Core UK business, to expand by growing internationally, to be as strong in non-food as in food and to follow customers into new retailing services. The company launched a home shopping service in 2000, allowing customers to order their shopping online. Tesco is now expanding its convenience stores and overseas into areas such as Taiwan, Malaysia, Poland, the US and Ireland.

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Is Tesco overvalued? City heavyweight says share needs to fall 20%
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15:43 06 Oct 2016
Tesco shares are trading at the higher end of an optimistic guidance, according to JP Morgan Cazenove.

JPM has an 'underweight' rating on Tesco, with a 135p target.
A heavyweight City broker reckons shares in Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO) would have to fall by 20% before it represents decent value.
JP Morgan Cazenove, in a note to clients, made the call following the grocer’s interim results.
Detailed analysis revealed the quality of the earnings “beat” was “rather low”, it said.
“We separately believe [chief executive] Dave Lewis has set himself challenging targets in the context of a very difficult industry backdrop, where all the different moving parts are not within his own control,” the American bank added in a note to clients.
“We believe the shares price in the higher end of an optimistic guidance.”
JPMC reiterated its ‘underweight’ recommendation on the stock and its 135p a share valuation of the stock.
At 8.40am, Tesco was changing hands for 203p, down 2%.
On Wednesday Tesco said the all-important UK like-for-like revenues grew by 0.6% in the six months to August 27. That represented the third straight quarter of growth.
Volumes were up 2.1% and transactions were ahead 1.6%, which means Tesco cut prices to kick-start growth. In fact Tesco said prices had fallen 6% over the last two years.
The improvements leave the grocer “well placed” to achieve £1.2bn of operating profit for the full-year. In the six months the figure was £596mln on turnover of £24.4bn.
CEO Lewis and the team wants to rebuild operating margins to 3.5-4% by 2019/20 by implementing £1.5bn of further cost cuts.
"We have made further strong progress in the first half, with positive like-for-like sales growth across all parts of the group as we re-invest in our customer offer whilst rebuilding profitability in a sustainable way,” the Tesco boss added.
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Ian Lyall

Article is interesting. May be JPM on wrong side of the trade!!!!!!!

Shorts being gently squeezed.!!!!!!

i know the chart is good, but i really cannot get myself to even consider s'market stocks

Perhaps just a short lived rally. What about the 5.9 BILLION pension deficit ?

Yes its a conundrum. The FTSE 350 Food & Drug Retail Sector is one of the best performing overall recently.

A company should never be allowed to dip into a pension scheme or under pay, utter madness. The law needs changing. Mind you the Tesco deficit is just a drop in the ocean to BT's. I think it is 7bn.

Correction 14.2 billion pounds

I remember several years ago many companies including BT were taking pension 'holidays' because they were overfunded, now that they have deficits they should be topping them up. I realise this will have to be at the expense of shareholders (me included) but it is only right that it should be done.
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There are talks of of switching pension payments to the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation, rather than the higher Retail Prices Index rate. This will save a company billions AND COST RETIRING WORKERS BILLIONS.

52 week high.

Chart is looking good.

Even with the PENSION deficit.

News 6-Nov.2016 - "...Tesco bank hacked, customers claim to have lost money..."
IMHO it's unlikely this isn't true . . . however we don't really know the extent of the problem - fortunately Tesco close their banking system to prevent anything further - good for those that were not hacked, but not good if you need Money to return from a journey and can't buy fuel, etc.

Thank goodness the UK-Gov is to start ( a bit late, eh?) funding Anti-cyber-crime although it's anyone's guess if this will involve wallpaper and a defunct computer system . . . . meanwhile our youngest Hackers are being shipped off the USA to spend years behind bars ( I mean Prison -).
Oh dear.

Doesn't look good for TSCO sp - currently ( as of Friday) ~£2.02
So that's a default in TO, then a Pensions Issue and now a Hacking Bank - that's three by my counting . . . Do these events come (in 3's) like Profit warnings...or does the first item ( =A profit warning ) not count perhaps?
Maybe we should expect another Tesco failure any time soon . . . a bad Christmas period? . . . . no, that will be general amongst retailers - so Tesco can't count that.... we need some "Breakdown event" to really count as their No3.

Any TSCO predictions?

-Ditto - for sp say by week-4 =.January,2017?
=£1.55 for me...FWIW...

time to BUY BUY BUY BUY THEY HAVE HAD A VERY GOOD XMAS .

I see Tesco senior director Richard Cousins has made a shock departure from the grocer, days before it reveals Christmas trading figures.

its lewis who needs to go the man is a silent dumbo

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Recent data from Kantar has suggested momentum building up at Morrison and fading at Tesco, while Sainsbury's remained the worst performer among the three listed names.

well they ave git it wrong Tesco have had a good xmas

Your local may have. lol

It's all about PROFIT. At the end of the day are they making any money after the overheads?

my hundred thousand I put in Tesco says I am correct