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UBM (UBM LN): Take profits

Valuation recovery running ahead of trading momentum Stock: UBM Plc (UBM LN) Price: 634p Target: 595p Upside: -6% Recommendation: Trading Sell Investment summary UBM was or top pick in our “Telecom & Media Dividend Watch” review at the beginning of the year (4 Jan 2012) and after a +29% share price appreciation since then (+24% […]

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France Telecom (FTE-FR): Growth rater update post FY11 results – still a value trap

France Telecom (FTE-FR) Share Price: €11.6 Target Price: €9.9 Upside: -15% Recommendation: SELL EVENT: FY11 results released today. Revenues were in line with consensus at €45.3bn (-1.6% underlying; -1.7% in Q4), but with near misses for EBIT (€7.9bn vs €8.3bn consensus) and EPS (€1.46 vs €1.53 consensus). EBITDA declined by an underlying -4.8% to €15.1bn […]

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Reed Elsevier (REL-LN, REN-AE): Journal pricing – the issue that refuses to die

Reed Elsevier Price: 530p/€9.1 Recommendation: HOLD Target Price: 543p/€10.2 Upside: +2%/+12% Next event: FY11 results – Thurs 16th Feb “Boycott Elsevier campaign” The issue of Journal pricing is one that refuses to die. Normally, the rhetoric gets fired up in the run up the year-end subscription renewal season. This time however, those negotiations passed relatively […]

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