Like some of you had said, someone may come and turn it around. But I think Ted Baker is a sinking ship.
Profit warnings are hard things to recover from. Especially when the high street isn’t as strong any more, it also goes to show that people have fallen out of love with the brand.
As people would just buy it online. But people aren’t clearly. The brand it’s self has gone downhill
I just spotted this when looking through the Ted Baker RNS.
http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/ted_baker/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=898&newsid=1352916
Toscafund Asset Management LLP has taken a 12.6% stake. A quick Google search suggest this hedge fund has a history of taking position in troubled firms that it think can be fixed.
I think the brand is still valuable, but discounting has continued (as mentioned) and now in the 50% off region. I went into our local store (Meadowhall) thoough, it didn’t feel like a “fire sale”.
The recent update isn’t great, but at least they will make money for the year.
http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/ted_baker/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=898&newsid=1351499
FULL YEAR OUTLOOK
Expectations for the period ending 25th January 2020 have been reduced to a minimum profit before tax of £5m, with a potential outcome of up to £10m dependent on Christmas trading and final year-end review.
Just spotted this update with more bad news.
22 Jan 2020 07:00 Update on Independent Review of Inventory
… Ted Baker expects to report that the value of inventory held on the Group’s balance sheet at 26th January 2019 was overstated by £58m. This is materially higher than the £20-25m preliminary assessment announced on 2nd December 2019. As previously stated, the overstatement is a non-cash item and related to prior years.
For context:
03 Oct 2019 Interim Results for the 28 weeks ended 10 August 2019, Page 12
Inventories £209.6m
Net assets £210.6m
The update and original announcement say it relates to “prior years”. Do we think that means the recent £209.6m inventories figure is accurate? I’m struggling to see how it can be, if in December they were still over 2x out. I’m still keeping an eye on this, but they are making it hard to want to buy this.
The main points, from a few news sources:
Neither of them is the ex-Chief
Who plans to buy this share?
Ray Kelvin’s shareholding will drop by 55% to 15.8% as he’s only buying £3.5m of new shares. I think him holding on has been a good thing for Ted Baker, as has his support in the last few months with the HQ building and this new funding round.
Interesting that he bought £3.5 million worth of new shares in the fundraising round.
The round has diluted his stake in Ted Baker down to 15.8%, so without his investment, he would have even less shareholding.
He might be one of those CEOs that return.
The stock itself is too risky for me, and my thesis is around e-commerce. I don’t think they do a good job there.
Has anyone here invested?
anyone got any prediction on this one, at its lowest or will maybe go lower to 70p?
What tool are you using here to assess possible valuation?
Simply Wall St. It’s quite good. I paid for the plus version.
