Lone Star bows out of Senior takeover race after final £840m bid is rejected June 24, 2021 Lone Star today said it had backed out from its bid to take over aerospace engineer Senior after the private equity firm’s fifth offer was rejected. Earlier in the week, Senior said there was no basis for it to engage with Lone Star after the fund said its 200p per share offer could only be [...]
Senior rejects Lone Star’s £840m take-private bid June 22, 2021 Aerospace engineer Senior has rejected private equity firm Lone Star’s £838.8m final takeover offer, it announced this afternoon. The firm’s board said that the offer “continues to fundamentally undervalue Senior and its future prospects”. Lone Star said that the offer, which priced the Rickmansworth-based firm’s stock at 200p per share, was its fifth and final [...]
Lone Star hikes offer in final bid to take engineer Senior private June 21, 2021 Private equity firm Lone Star has today upped its bid for aircraft parts maker Senior, sending the Rickmansworth-headquartered company’s shares up 10.8 per cent this afternoon. Last month the FTSE-listed company rejected Lone Star’s £738m bid, saying that it fundamentally undervalued the company. But now the finance house has jacked up its bid from 176p [...]
Crash landing for Senior as Covid travel disruption wipes out profits March 8, 2021 Senior plc today warned this year would be as challenging as 2020 after the British aircraft parts supplier swung to an annual loss. The firm was struck by Covid-related disruptions to travel throughout the year, alongside Boeing’s 737 Max crisis. Senior reported an adjusted pre-tax loss of £6.2m, compared with a profit of £78.5m a [...]
Senior warns of turbulent 2020 on 737 Max delays and coronavirus fears March 2, 2020 Boeing supplier Senior could be in for a rough ride in 2020 after the firm warned that continued issues over the production of the 737 Max and potential disruption from the coronavirus outbreak could hit sales. Despite the warning, shares in the FTSE 250 firm rose over two per cent today. The figures Although the [...]
Aerospace engineer Senior mulls selling aerostructures division December 9, 2019 Senior, an engineering supplier to the likes of Boeing and Daimler, has admitted it is thinking about selling off its aerostructures division, in a deal that could be worth up to £450m. Shares in the FTSE 250 company rose 5.5 per cent today after it confirmed reports that emerged over the weekend that a sale [...]
Aerospace engineer Senior’s profits shrink after Boeing 737 Max grounding August 5, 2019 British engineer Senior has become the latest aerospace supplier to highlight the impact of Boeing grounding its flagship 737 Max jet, reporting a first half profit drop of more than one-sixth this morning. The FTSE 250 aerospace firm said although it had mitigated some of the damage through stronger sales in other parts of its [...]
The robots are coming – and they’re (potentially) after your job May 22, 2019 | City Talk By Ian Hall (Morning Wire, for the CFA Institute) ‘You want your robot to be smarter than the other team’s robot’: advice that sounds like it belongs to a participant in combat competition TV show Robot Wars. But, actually, it’s the increasingly competitive and technology-affected situation that many investment professionals will face in the workplace [...]
City minister John Glen rules out Brexit dividend from slashing EU regulations May 20, 2019 Diverting from the EU’s financial regulations after Brexit will not deliver “an enormous economic dividend”, the City minister has warned. Read more: Andrew Bailey is right to think about the City's future Speaking to Morning Wire after delivering the opening speech at the City Week conference in London today, John Glen said the majority of [...]
Could Capita’s move to put workers to boards fix capitalism’s crisis? May 14, 2019 Capitalism is being questioned in Britain more intensely than for decades. Some want to destroy it. Others believe that it is the only economic system which works, but want to reform it. I am in the latter camp. Part of the debate around Brexit has centred on preserving workers’ rights, enshrined in EU law. But rights [...]