Its come along way since these were a pair of old boots,just bought today mid 280s,spent a few pounds in there of late,so why not!

This could be out of favour for a few more days and see further falls, however it will eventually be cheap enough to have people piling back in.

Espirito Santo Execution Noble Neutral 301.70 350.00 305.00 Downgrades

Missed this earlier!

UBS Buy 331.00p 280.00p 375.00p Upgrade

3 Jul Ex-Dividend Date 9.1p.

10 Jul Q1 Interim Management Statement

I wonder if the Tour de France will have the usual effect of temporarily boosting sales this year?

Holding up rather well today taking the dividend into account.

Interim Management Statement

Key Points
· Cycling: all areas up on the year with Cycle Repair increasing 32.1%. A broader offer of Parts, Accessories & Clothing launched online
· Car Maintenance: parts sales up 16.7% driven by the fitting proposition
· Car Enhancement: Car Cleaning sales up strongly, with Technology sales down 3.5%
· Travel Solutions: better Camping sales offset by a further decline in sales of Child Car Seats
· Online Retail: sales up 15.5%, with Cycling making up over half of online revenues. Sat Nav online sales up 9.4%
· Autocentres: total sales up 7.8% with seven centres opened in the period; fleet LfL sales remained in decline

Financial Position
The Group's financial position remains sound.

Yum Yum.

Closed for the dividend and the +41.

N+1 Singer Buy 350.20 318.20 380.00 380.00 Retains

Trully amazing update.

Skinny when is the ex day? any idea?.

This British chap whos doing well at the Tour de France should help going forward.

Lost track of it cos of the Tennis over last week or so.

Last Wednesday 9.1p - see post 190.

Cheers Skinny.

Jul 2013 Halfords Group PLC HFD N+1 Singer Buy 366.00 354.50 380.00 425.00 Retains

TARGET SP 425p

Halfords: Price target upgrades
11th July 2013, 13:23

Analysts at HSBC and N+1 Singer have increased their price targets on Halfords [LON:HFD] in response to the company's first quarter interim management statement, published on Wednesday.

HSBC reaffirmed its ‘neutral’ recommendation and increased its price target to 380 pence per share (from 340 pence), while N+1 Singer stuck with its bullish ‘buy’ call and raised its price target to 425 pence a share (previously 380 pence).

N+1 Singer said: “’Getting into Gear 2016’ was one of the more impressive strategic updates we have seen for some time and tackles the key issues head on. There can be no doubting Matt Davies’s passion and ambition to succeed.

“Expectations and forecasts were rebased after the prelims but upgrade momentum is now returning after a strong Q1.

“The route map for the turnaround is transparent and our analysis of potential share gains in core categories suggest that management’s £1bn sales target in FY’16 is very achievable.”

Separately, Cantor Fitzgerald upgraded its recommendation to ‘hold’ from ‘sell’, in a note to investors yesterday, believing the results highlighted impressive underlying performance.

Broker Forecasts consensus data shows that 36 per cent of brokers rate the shares as a ‘buy’, 50 per cent as a ‘hold’ and 14 per cent as a ‘sell’.

At 1:14pm: Halfords Group share price was up 5.25 pence at 359.75 pence.

Froome Froome! Tour de France: Chris Froome wins 100th edition of race

Interim results 7th November.

Aye in yesterday on a SB skinny @ 367.7

Stop to 382.7 to lock in + 15

Stop moved to 387.7 to lock in + 20