If Bt has bought back 2million 5 thousand shares to day. How come it shows on trades as a sell?

Morgan Stanley Overweight 280.30 276.90 290.00 290.00 Reiterates

Liberum Capital Buy 280.30 276.90 300.00 - Reiterates

Espirito Santo Execution Noble Neutral 280.30 276.90 250.00 250.00 Reiterates

JP Morgan Cazenove Overweight 270.80 270.80 280.00 280.00 Retains

Nomura Buy 270.85 266.30 290.00 360.00 Reiterates

6 year high today @283.20p

New high today @284.50p

Multi year high @290.70 just touched.

Deutsche Bank Hold 286.45 277.00 277.00 Reiterates

Liberum Capital Buy 286.45 300.00 315.00 Reiterates

Morgan Stanley Equal weight 286.45 300.00 300.00 Reiterates

Citigroup Neutral 276.50 275.00 250.00 300.00 Reiterates

BT SPORT FREE FOR MILLIONS OF HOMES

BT SPORT FREE FOR MILLIONS OF HOMES

Free with BT broadband

Non-BT broadband customers offered a quick and easy switching process

Available in HD for £15 per month to non-BT broadband customers

BT today promised to return sport to grassroots fans as it revealed BT Sport will be free to any consumer BT broadband customer. This is the first time in more than 20 years that weekly live matches from the Barclays Premier League will be free to watch.

The three channels - BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN - will be packed with world class sport. There will be 38 live and exclusive football matches from the Barclays Premier League - including 18 'first pick' matches - and up to 69 live rugby matches from the Aviva Premiership where BT will be the sole and exclusive broadcaster. There will be live football from several other top leagues around the world including Germany, France, Italy and Brazil. There will also be FA Cup ties, the UEFA Europa League, Scottish Premier League plus WTA women's tennis and action from the UFC.

BT today revealed it has added Moto GP, Women's Super League football, Australian 'A' league soccer and action sport and lifestyle programming from Red Bull Media House. Further commentators and pundits were also announced to boost those already in place (see accompanying release).

BT's aim is to increase the number of customers enjoying high quality sports on TV. Only one in five UK homes currently take a sports channel, possibly due to the high prices that have resulted from there being little real competition.

By offering BT Sport for free with BT broadband, BT hopes to appeal to the vast majority of UK homes - more than 20 million - who already have broadband as well as those who haven't taken it to date. More than five million homes already take their broadband from BT and whilst the company will be rewarding those loyal customers with this great free service, it will also be encouraging customers of other ISPs to switch supplier.

To encourage people to switch, BT is offering new customers BT Infinity, its flagship superfast fibre product, from just £15 per month or copper broadband from just £101.

BT Group plc Final Results


Key points for the fourth quarter:

· Our key revenue measure3 was flat - a significantly improved performance
· Underlying operating costs4 excluding transit down 2%, despite our investments
· EBITDA1 up 4% and earnings per share1 up 22%
· Fibre available to more than half of UK homes and businesses and roll out accelerating in rural areas
· Fibre customer base more than doubled, now at more than 1.5m
· BT Global Services order intake of £2.0bn

Key points for the year:

· Results in line with or better than expectations
· Underlying operating costs1 excluding transit down 6%
· EBITDA2 up 2%
· Normalised free cash flow3 of £2.3bn
· Net debt reduced by £1,285m
· Proposed final dividend of 6.5p, up 14%, giving a full year dividend of 9.5p, also up 14%

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Buy 275.65 275.70 275.00 325.00 Upgrades

Morgan Stanley Equal weight 0.00 285.00 285.00 Reiterates

Exane BNP Paribas Neutral 299.45 250.00 250.00 Reiterates

£3 touched.

Great results.

Wey hey I love these b*ggers :-)

BT Group Management Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Thanks for that Skinny, these have had a cracking run and note that the F. Divi is in Aug. paying about 2% at todays SP. This new BT Sports response to Murdoch's Broadband threat and repercussions may be clearer by then so I will continue to monitor them.

Beaufort Securities Buy 305.80 - - Reiterates

Nomura Buy 305.80 360.00 375.00 Reiterates

JP Morgan Cazenove Overweight 305.80 280.00 280.00 Retains

Morgan Stanley Equal weight 305.80 285.00 310.00 Reiterates

Liberum Capital Buy 305.70 309.50 315.00 - Reiterates

Berenberg Buy 0.00 280.00 375.00 Retains

Are we there yet.