ITV must now be a bargain. The current team clearly are an issue but you'd think the big American companies would recognise the bargain.

The yield is also high and can be reinvested. That really does limit the down side. You can even win here if it drops further!

I had a spread bet @199 and closed it @207 a two day trade, am thinking of going long again if it breaks 210

Nice one alders. The only possible fly in the ointment is the possibility that sp may retrace at some stage to close the gap between 195p and 185p we'll see. Either way it's a hold for me owning the shares and trade able with spread bets. Have you considered quarterly bets yet? The spread is slightly higher but eliminates overnight charges that can add up.

Thought you was walking Chris.? Anyway big match today.

Are you getting nervy.????

'Why I’m buying ITV – and you should too'

Although I prefer well-selected smaller companies, now and then I find what I call “an attractive elephant”.

My current favourite is ITV, which is valued at about £8bn at a share price this week of about 203p. It is always easy to deal in the shares, even if you are buying a large amount, and the “spread” – the difference between the buying and selling prices of a share, effectively another cost – is very low at only 0.2p.

In my view ITV has several extra advantages, which distinguish it from the other elephants in the herd.

• Following Liberty Global’s recent purchase of 6.4pc of ITV from Sky, there is a very good chance of a bid for the company during the next two to three years.

• Based on a new report from Nera Economic Consulting, there are growing hopes of establishing substantial extra revenue from retransmission charges by 2017/8.

• ITV programmes developed in recent years have been excellent and wide-ranging, including Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge, and The X Factor. With media companies, increasing quality content is now the name of the game and ITV has been upgrading its own significantly.

• You can never be really sure but on the face of it, and based on performance to date, the company appears to be pointing its efforts in absolutely the right direction and seems to be very well managed.

• Above all for me, the financial statistics tick all of my boxes. The p/e ratio is less than 15, the growth rate in earnings per share over the next year is more than 17pc, giving a p/e to growth or “Peg” ratio of 0.9, the earnings per share growth record is excellent, cash flow is in excess of earnings and the company has a strong net cash position. Also, the current dividend yield is a reasonably satisfactory 2.4pc and is rising fast.


Extract from Jim Slater column in Telegraph 11/10/14

Lower indicators moving up on the chart could see a bounce tomorrow.

Ex-Divi tomorrow 1.4p

What's all this about, it looks like UT trade , but the UT trade next to it looks normal




Recent Share Trades for ITV (ITV)
Date 06-Nov-14
16:26:56
203.30
413
Buy*
216.80
193.60
839.63
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http://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/533320/ITV-advertising-revenue-boosted-by-X-Factor-and-Downton

LATEST BROKER VIEWS

Date Broker New target Recomm.
10 Nov Nomura N/A Buy
7 Nov Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
6 Nov Westhouse... 228.00 Add
28 Oct Nomura N/A Buy
13 Oct Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
10 Oct Credit Suisse 270.00 Outperform
8 Oct Credit Suisse 270.00 Outperform
3 Oct Exane BNP... 225.00 Outperform
29 Sep Credit Suisse 270.00 Outperform
26 Sep Liberum Capital 255.00 Buy
Broker Recommendations for ITV 13th November Q3 Interim Statement.

Tipped by Zac Mir yesterday on a breakout above 206

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Looks like the breakout will be 208 then , like he said before

Zac Mir? wish you hadn't mentioned him alders, kiss of death :0)

We have the results to look forward to, Chris

Am i right in saying we have a gap to fill on the chart ?

On the downside alders yes, but hopefully not yet.

Chris

You were right about Zac Mir , the kiss of death for ITV

Aye, fraid so alders, even if trading statement is good tomorrow no guarantee won't consolidate to close that gap to 185 before picking up again.

Liberum Capital consistant in reiterating their 255p buy recom today. See what happens in the morn.

ITV continues to deliver strong growth

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Glad this as recovered from its opening low's , was worried about my stop loss's@193&196