Hi Glenn,
Jumbo Interactive (JIN) – is trading down more than 15% on Thursday afternoon, its largest drop in 16-weeks, after being downgraded by Morgan Stanley with the investment bank seeing limited scope to rerate until organic growth improves and key overhangs improve. Analysts are concerned around how the U.K. taxes prize draws from the lottery ticket retailer. With legislative intervention possible we think JIN is too hard ~$6 even if Thursday drip seems harsh on just one analyst downgrade.
Premier Investments (PMV) – has risen steadily over the last month but the sector has has enjoyed a strong period with JB Hi-Fi, Super Retail, Wesfarmers and Nick Scali all up between 15 and 20%. We prefers others relative to PMV ~$15 although some consolidation wouldn’t surprise.
Accent Group (AX1) – has bounced ~50% from its 51c low as UK giant and major shareholder (22.9%) Frasers Group made a hostile bid of 65c a share, below the 71c price on Thursday.
The board has urged shareholders to reject the offer, which in this case makes sense with the stock trading higher although the board made no reference to the stocks 80% plunge over the last 18-months – the exact woeful performance that’s made Frasers make the bid in the first place.
- We don’t believe the bid will go ahead at 65c, they’re probably going to need to pay 75-80c – for the sake of shareholders let’s hope they don’t give up and abandon ship!