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Hargreaves Services - Capital reallocation exercise

October 2014

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  • Epic Code:
  • HSP
  • Price:
  • 547p
Hargreaves’ full year results were in-line  - pretax profit was £55.1m, eps was 124.8p and net debt was down to £68.8m - but what has spooked the market has been the company highlighting that gas prices have collapsed, which has seen coal and also coke prices spiral downwards. Coal burn in June was a record low. This price volatility means that power station customers have been reluctant to sign up to 2/3 year contracts as they did previously. Finance director Ian Cockburn says it is now lucky if gets six month contracts, which creates short term issues and Hargreaves is therefore no longer looking at absolute returns but returns on a risk adjusted basis.The year saw it buy some surface mining assets includin ...

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