recommended by the fleet street group,it looks promising!

Fundamentalist,

I am just going to send you a test message to make sure all is ok. Can you let me know if you receive it?

Ian

Nothing as yet - strange as Fred1New sent me mail yesterday ok - will keep checking

Fundamentalist,

The mail I sent through the BB has just bounced back to me saying 'invalid recipient' I can see from our records that the address we hold in our database is different from the one you have put in the BB message system. Could you take a look at your profile to check the address and make sure it is correct?

Ian

Ian

profile has the correct email address - i changed my email since i first joined moneyam. as i said, i received an internal mail from fred yesterday. I am happy for you to send amber my email address if that would solve the prob.

Fundametalist,

I will do that for you, but I will also send a mail directly to you to test, because as I said, the mail I sent through came back with the following message from your E mail provider, 'invalid recipient'


Thanks

Ian

Fund,

I have just sent a mail using my own E mail address, which has bounced back to me with the same error message can you E mail me so that I have the correct address and I will try again - ian@moneyam.com

Ian

mail sent

Amber

My details are now up to date if you want to try again.

Cheers

Amber

Ive sent the email - let me know if you dont receive it.

What a pavlova...but received in the end, looks very informative, will digest in the morning with breakfast. Thanks for all the effort, hope your email is working now. (by the way Ian, I never got the return message 'invalid recipient" bit though - strange)

Interesting day for housebuilders, the shares are up on the back of Berkeley results. Havent read them yet - will do later and post my thoughts!

Yes little increase for BVS and others, looked at the spreadsheet, really helpful data, cheers,

Amber

Well, it's flying today!

And again today. Everyone else seems to have lost interest but Bovis is bucking the trend at present and doing very nicely I feel.

Flying today too - whats the news anyone?

News seems to be take over talk in the sector, with Persimmon rumoured to be interested in Westbury. Bovis identified as favourable target as well

A good home for your money at present then!

Hi queen1 and g64946 (whom I very pleased to meet) - all the nicest people on the nicest threads.

Yes BVS has been steaming ahead in recent weeks - long may it continune. I concur with take over theories, but also on fundamentals it is a cheap stock even at this level. P/E of 7.62 and Yield of 3.2% for 2005 - it's one of those long term value growing income shares that recent reports have been stating give you a much higher return over 10years+ than chasing high growth low/no income stocks.

This one will chug away until I retire I hope (many, many years, in case you're asking!)

SD

Stockdog - It's a pleasure to be complimented by you! If BVS were to be targeted (which, let's face it has been part of the attraction for some time now), what price do you think a potential buyer would need to pitch at to ensure success?

queen1 - not a clue, but I assume it's higher than current price by, say, 25%.

The other way is to look at the P/E for the Construction seector and/or the FTSE250 and muliply the SP by this divided by the BVS P/E - a measure of what SP brings the share into line with the prevailing market = plus a small premium on top for the value of good management being acquired?? Sorry, not time to reseach this statistic just now. If you find it let me know - useful guide to when SP becomes fully valued with no takeover materialising.

Do you remember that old TV commercial they used to do - "Bloody long way for a brick!"

SD