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Ian Lance

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
277 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

And actually, we think that they can do better than just stabilise the earnings.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

So at the moment, the market doesn't agree with us.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

So we will see.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

Well, not yet.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

Not yet.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

No, but eventually.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

Yeah, although funnily enough, actually, I wouldn't say that there was a โ€“ that's not really a sort of recovery story.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

I think that it's just a situation where within healthcare, the market just became very, very negative on healthcare companies.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

And actually, you know, these are reasonably good companies.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

They're not uber-growth companies, but, you know, they can normally knock out sort of 5% or so earnings growth.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

And that's absolutely the case with GSK.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

Their record in terms of new drug discovery has not been fantastic over the last few years.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

But, you know, there are some very good businesses within the company.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

And yet it just got down to a very, very low multiple.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

So and actually in the last year or so, actually, the stock has begun to re-rape, hence again why it's ended up in the top 10.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

You know, you mentioned at the start that the trust is up sort of, I think, 240% or something since we took it over.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

It's on a P of less than 10%.

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

today, which is amazing, isn't it?

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

You think, oh, that almost sounds impossible, doesn't it?

Merryn Talks Money
Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

And of course, that's, I suppose, the good thing about being a value investor is you rotate around the market to where the value is.