Ashtead Group (AHT)

Sector:

Support

Index:

FTSE 100

5,788.00p
   
  • Change Today:
    -14.00p
  • 52 Week High: 6,104.00p
  • 52 Week Low: 4,694.00p
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 451.35m
  • Volume: 776,483
  • Market Cap: £26,124m
  • RiskGrade: 116

Tuesday preview: Fed's Powell, Ashtead in focus

By Alexander Bueso

Date: Monday 15 Jun 2020

LONDON (ShareCast) - (Sharecast News) - The market spotlight on Tuesday will be on US central bank chief, Jerome Powell, as he delivers his semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress.


Powell's testimony before the US Senate's committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, at 1500 BST, may offer an opportunity to glean further insights into the current state of thinking at the Fed.

Readings on retail sales and industrial production are due out ahead of his remarks, at 1330 BST.

In particular, investors will be keen for any signs that the expected bounce back in US economic activity is stronger than anticipated.

On home shores meanwhile, the April employment report is expected to reveal a jump in the unemployment rate from 3.9% in March to 4.5%, alongside a 850,000 surge in jobless claims.

Across the Channel, focus will be on the ZEW institute's economic confidence gauge for Germany, which is expected to show an improvement from a reading of 51.0 for May to to 58.5 in June.



On the corporate side of things, analysts at UBS estimate that Ashtead will post full year earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation of £2,428m, with profits before tax and amortisation pegged at £1,029m.

Earnings per share meanwhile are seen coming in at 158.3p (consensus: 175.0p).

Similarly, the Swiss broker said it was expecting financial year 2022 EPS to be about 18% less than the analyst consensus was anticipating.

On a more positive note, Sunbelt US volume growth was estimated to have dropped by 2.5% in the fourth quarter of the year, but was expected to be offset by still positive yield momentum, UBS said.

Volumes at Sunbelt Canada meanwhile were seen 13.5% higher, while A-Plant volumes in UK were expected to fall by 30%.

Tuesday 16 June

INTERIMS

Oxford Biodynamics

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE

Volta Finance Limited, Volta Finance Limited NPV (GBP)

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Business Inventories (US) (15:00)

Capacity Utilisation (US) (14:15)

Consumer Price Index (GER) (07:00)

Industrial Production (US) (14:15)

Retail Sales (US) (13:30)

ZEW Survey (EU) - Economic Sentiment (10:00)

ZEW Survey (GER) - Current Situation (10:00)

ZEW Survey (GER) - Economic Sentiment (10:00)

Q4

Ashtead Group

FINALS

Ashtead Group, Braemar Shipping Services, Checkit, Tatton Asset Management , Telecom Plus

AGMS

Altus Strategies , Andrews Sykes Group, Arbuthnot Banking Group, British Smaller Companies VCT 2, Clearstar Inc. (DI), Coca-Cola HBC AG (CDI), Concurrent Technologies, Epwin Group, Evraz, FDM Group (Holdings), Osirium Technologies, Serabi Gold

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Claimant Count Rate (08:30)

Claimant Count Rate (07:00)

Unemployment Rate (07:00)

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Ashtead Group Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 5,788.00p
Change Today -14.00p
% Change -0.24 %
52 Week High 6,104.00p
52 Week Low 4,694.00p
Volume 776,483
Shares Issued 451.35m
Market Cap £26,124m
RiskGrade 116

Ashtead Group Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
more star ratings
Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
20.82% below the market average20.82% below the market average20.82% below the market average20.82% below the market average20.82% below the market average
26.67% below the sector average26.67% below the sector average26.67% below the sector average26.67% below the sector average26.67% below the sector average
Price Trend
45.72% above the market average45.72% above the market average45.72% above the market average45.72% above the market average45.72% above the market average
25.25% above the sector average25.25% above the sector average25.25% above the sector average25.25% above the sector average25.25% above the sector average
Income
84.47% below the market average84.47% below the market average84.47% below the market average84.47% below the market average84.47% below the market average
79.66% below the sector average79.66% below the sector average79.66% below the sector average79.66% below the sector average79.66% below the sector average
Growth
14.83% above the market average14.83% above the market average14.83% above the market average14.83% above the market average14.83% above the market average
21.74% above the sector average21.74% above the sector average21.74% above the sector average21.74% above the sector average21.74% above the sector average

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 6
Buy 10
Neutral 3
Sell 1
Strong Sell 0
Total 20
buy
Broker recommendations should not be taken as investment advice, and are provided by the authorised brokers listed on this page.

Ashtead Group Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Final Interim
Ex-Div 08-Aug-24 11-Jan-24
Paid 10-Sep-24 08-Feb-24
Amount 89.25¢ 15.75¢

Trades for 31-Oct-2024

Time Volume / Share Price
17:32 15,706 @ 5,754.25p
17:32 1,992 @ 5,754.25p
17:32 45,293 @ 5,760.21p
17:32 20,885 @ 5,754.73p
16:39 210 @ 5,788.00p

Ashtead Group Key Personnel

CEO Brendan Horgan
CFO Michael Pratt

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