Primary Recommendation

Carphone Warehouse - New residential fixed line business going great guns

December 2003

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

The UK's largest independent mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, was one of the new issues that floated at the tail-end of the last boom. At one point the shares surged to a high of 223p, implying an exotic PE of over 65. But gravity plus the news that Carphone had dabbled in some ultimately worthless wireless investments,subsequently combined to send the shares to a low of 50p in March. But prospects are now looking much brighter than for some time, while investors' appetites have been whetted by a brand new opportunity in the residential fixed line market through thelaunch of talktalk, which provides a low cost alternative to BT. In just nine months, talktalk has taken a meaningful chunk ...

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Sectors on the move - December

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Carphone Warehouse (February 2014)

Carphone Warehouse - Acquisition triggers 40% eps upgrade (July 2013)

Carphone Warehouse - Smart phones drive surge in sales (March 2013)

Carphone Warehouse - "Momentum the best for three years" (January 2013)

Carphone Warehouse - Wireless World roll-out going well (August 2012)

Carphone Warehouse - 172p special dividend (March 2012)

Carphone Warehouse - Special dividend of c170p-a-share (December 2011)

Carphone Warehouse (September 2011)

Carphone Warehouse - Gain since tip: 104% (July 2011)

Carphone Warehouse - New broker price target: Â£5 (June 2011)

Carphone Warehouse - BBM connections grow 34% (March 2011)

Carphone Warehouse (December 2010)

Carphone Warehouse - Best Buy Mobile US going well (September 2010)

Carphone Warehouse - US mobile business driving strong eps growth (June 2010)

Carphone Warehouse - De-merger still on track (February 2010)

Carphone Warehouse - De-merger plans should stimulate re-rating (January 2010)

Carphone Warehouse (March 2008)

Carphone Warehouse - Best Buy acquires stake (November 2007)

Carphone Warehouse - shares hit new highs in falling market (September 2007)

Caphone Warehouse - Finally solving TalkTalk problems; eps to soar to 25.5p in â€˜09 (July 2007)

Carphone Warehouse (December 2006)

Carphone Warehouse - Massive triple play opportunity (July 2006)

Carphone Warehouse - Acquisitions push shares to new high (February 2006)

Carphone Warehouse - 'Triple play' opens up huge opportunity in BT's back yard (January 2006)

Carphone Warehouse - Cautious outlook (May 2005)

Carphone Warehouse - Dispels high street gloom (March 2005)

Carphone Warehouse - Beats forecasts again (November 2004)

Carphone Warehouse - Over 500,000 TalkTalk customers (September 2004)

Carphone Warehouse - 385,000 TalkTalk customers (July 2004)

Carphone Warehouse - 30% increase in connections (May 2004)

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