BT-A.L - BT Group plc
| Previous close | 197.26 |
| Open | 197.60 |
| Bid | 196.52 x 0 |
| Ask | 196.58 x 0 |
| Day's range | 195.16 - 198.96 |
| 52-week range | 157.67 - 268.60 |
| Volume | 3,959,719 |
| Avg. volume | 27,416,767 |
| Market cap | 19.428B |
| Beta (3Y monthly) | 0.91 |
| PE ratio (TTM) | 9.10 |
| EPS (TTM) | 21.60 |
| Earnings date | N/A |
| Forward dividend & yield | 0.15 (7.82%) |
| Ex-dividend date | 2019-08-08 |
| 1y target est | 284.59 |
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2 5G stocks I’d invest in before 2020
The UK rollout of 5G will be in full swing by 2020. Here’s how I’m planning on cashing in beforehand.
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BT launches 5G smartphone plans for consumers and businesses
Britain's BT will launch 5G services in more than 20 towns and cities on Friday, offering its consumer and business customers its fastest connections across both fixed line and mobile. BT's mobile brand EE, the market leader, switched on Britain's first commercial 5G services in May. Rival Vodafone followed with its own network in July. BT said business customers and consumers signed up to broadband and mobile package BT Plus would be the first to be offered 5G, which will require a handset from a range including the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, OnePlus 7 Pro and Huawei Mate 20.
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The BT share price: is it time to buy ahead of the company’s turnaround?
Rupert Hargreaves explains why he thinks the BT share price could be a buy following the launch of its ambitious turnaround plan this week.
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BT seeks to repair customer ties with new services and products
The boss of Britain's biggest telecoms provider BT on Wednesday set out plans to improve the company's relationship with customers with new superfast services, more technical support and a return of its brand to the high street. In one of the first moves since taking over in February, Philip Jansen outlined the group's aims to rebuild BT's reputation after clashes with the regulator, government and customers who complained about poor service. Under the plan, BT will create a team of experts to help customers in the home and small businesses, speed up the return of its customer support teams to the UK and Ireland, and bring BT back to the high street by putting its products and staff into its EE mobile store network.
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CORRECTED (OFFICIAL)-UPDATE 2-Vodafone to close more than 1,000 stores
Vodafone will shut 15% of its 7,700 stores and upgrade some of the remaining outlets as customers buy more online and change their expectations of in-store shopping, chief executive Nick Read said on Tuesday. Around 5,000 of Vodafone's stores are in Europe, with the remainder in markets such as Asia and Africa. Customer service offered by Apple and Amazon had changed expectations, and Vodafone hopes to improve its services faster than former incumbent rivals like BT, Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica with targeted and personalised marketing, he said.
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Why the BT share price rose 8% in September
The BT share price beat the market in September, but as Rupert Hargreaves explains, this rally might not last much longer.
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Forget the BT share price! 4 reasons I’d avoid the FTSE 100 stock and its 8.5% dividend yields
Are big dividend yields a good enough reason to buy the BT share price for your ISA today? Royston Wild says "absolutely not"!
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Neil Woodford drops biotech, buys BT, IMB, IAG – is he right?
Is Neil Woodford's switch from risky small caps to these three FTSE 100 dividend payers a stunning return to form, or a harbinger of doom for your portfolio?
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U.K. to Discuss Blueprint of Johnson’s Fiber Plan With CEOs
(Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson promised to bring fiber broadband to every U.K. home by 2025 in his bid for the most important job in the land. Now comes the difficult part.To have any chance of success, the Prime Minister must first convince telecommunications executives there is a profit opportunity.“The productivity of the nation isn’t in my business case,” Philip Jansen, chief executive of former state monopoly BT Group Plc, said last month.The government will step up the pressure later on Thursday when the Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan gathers the heads of Britain’s broadband building companies at her Westminster office. The talks are expected to focus on how to reach Johnson’s accelerated infrastructure target, including a timeline for switching off older networks, according to people briefed on the closed-door meeting.So-called full fiber can deliver data ten times faster than copper lines. Currently in the U.K., fiber lines carry data over long distances to a neighborhood box, and copper lines connect the box to nearby homes. BT has drawn up proposals for switching off copper networks by 2027, Sky News reported late Wednesday.The U.K. badly lags European neighbors in full fiber, which reaches only 8% of British premises compared to about 90% of homes in Portugal and 70% in Spain.The reason is a combination of political will and local circumstances.A study commissioned last year by British officials suggested that Spain’s dominant phone company, Telefonica SA, opted for a faster fiber network build than U.K. counterpart BT as it faced greater competitive pressure to secure a speed advantage over rivals. A law has obliged construction firms to include fiber ducts in new buildings since 2000, so millions of residents were connected cheaply and quickly.In the U.K., fewer people live in apartment blocks, driving up installation costs. A similar construction law has been drafted for Britain, but the political disruption around Brexit has delayed its ratification.Then there’s the challenge of turning a profit on the investment. If consumers get fiber, will they all pay for it, especially now that advances in copper technology can squeeze more data through the same pipes?“For the foreseeable future, speeds are more than adequate for household needs,” said James Ratzer, an analyst at New Street Research. He also said more than half of the U.K. has access to ultrafast cable from Liberty Global Plc’s Virgin Media, and yet that company is losing broadband customers."BT is keen to see the industry work together with government on the big challenges – such as digital switchover and rural coverage,” a BT spokesman said by email.Were a date to be fixed for shutting off copper networks, that would remove the risk that BT is forced to pay for fiber buildout without being assured that customers will switch to the faster network. Building RightsThe fiber goal can’t be reached without BT, whose CEO Jansen has said he’s up for the challenge as long as the industry can get hold of 30,000 extra workers to dig up roads and the government scraps planning rules to give carriers build rights now enjoyed by water and power utilities.There are signs the government is softening its message to avoid a clash. Johnson more recently pledged a “gigabit” target instead of “full-fiber,” an acknowledgement that other technologies like 5G wireless networks could be used to deliver faster internet.The government “wants to deliver world-class, gigabit-capable digital infrastructure across the country and will announce further details on how we will achieve this as soon as possible,” a spokesman for Morgan said.Officials and lawmakers hoping to speed things up have been distracted by Brexit, while Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament cuts down the already small amount of time to push through legislation.Churn at the top of government hasn’t helped: Morgan is the fourth person to hold her post in two years and the growing prospect of another national election means yet more uncertainty.(Updates with context and company comments from fourth paragraph.)\--With assistance from Rodrigo Orihuela.To contact the reporter on this story: Thomas Seal in London at tseal@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Thomas Pfeiffer at tpfeiffer3@bloomberg.net, Jennifer RyanFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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FTSE 100 dips ahead of Fed meeting
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UPDATE 2-Oil majors curb FTSE losses as crude surges after Saudi attacks
Britain's blue-chip index dropped on Monday as non-oil stocks took a hit from mounting geopolitical risks and growth concerns after crude prices rose due to the attacks on Saudi Arabian production facilities. The FTSE 100 slipped 0.6% overall, but a 4% gain in BP and 2% in Shell kept a lid on losses. The FTSE 250 was down 0.7%.
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BT vs Royal Mail: which 7%+ dividend stock should I buy?
Royal Mail plc (LON: RMG) and BT Group - Class A Common Stock (LON: BT.A) both offer essential services and 7%+ dividend yields.
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What Do Investors Need To Know About BT Group plc's (LON:BT.A) Future?
Looking at BT Group plc's (LON:BT.A) earnings update in June 2019, analyst consensus outlook seem pessimistic, with...
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The BT share price has crashed 20% this year, so is it time to buy?
Just how low can the BT Group - class A common stock (LON:BT-A) share price go before it's impossible to resist?
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Is the BT share price a bargain buy or value trap?
Shares in telecoms giant BT Group - Class A Common Stock (LON:BT.A) look cheap, but will they ever recover? Rupert Hargreaves looks into the company's prospects.
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UPDATE 1-Mobile phone sales plunge at Britain's Dixons Carphone
Britain's Dixons Carphone on Thursday reported another big fall in mobile phone sales in its latest quarter, though it maintained its financial guidance for the full 2019-20 year. The group, which trades as Currys, PC World and Carphone Warehouse in the UK, said like-for-like sales in its UK & Ireland mobile phones division fell 10% in the 13 weeks to July 27, its fiscal first quarter. Dixons Carphone has been hurt by a shift in the mobile phone market as customers keep their handsets for longer, choose cheaper SIM-only deals, and turn to more flexible credit-based offers.
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Why the BT share price fell 14% in August
G A Chester discusses the slump in BT Group - Class A Common Stock (LON:BT.A), and gives his view on the company's valuation and prospects.
- Reuters - UK Focus
Vodafone UK appeals move to ease price caps on BT business lines
Vodafone UK is seeking to overturn a move by regulator Ofcom to relax restrictions on how much BT can charge for business fibre connections, saying it will result in higher bills for companies, universities and hospitals. Ofcom had already eased price regulation in central London in a review in 2016, saying BT did not have significant market power. It has now relaxed the restrictions in other cities where BT faces two or more rivals, such as Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester.
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BT Group and Rolls-Royce shares have tanked. I’d consider buying them now
Harvey Jones says these two falling knives could now be worth catching, if you're feeling brave.
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One high-yielding FTSE 100 stock I would avoid and what I would buy instead
Shares of BT Group - class A common stock (LON:BT-A) yield almost 10%, but should you buy them?
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Britain to make Huawei decision on 5G by the autumn - digital minister
Britain will make a decision on whether to allow China's Huawei equipment to be used in its 5G networks in the autumn, the digital minister Nicky Morgan said. "We've got to make sure that this is going to be a decision for the long term, making sure that we keep all our networks secure." (Reporting by Kate Holton.
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I’d fill my boots with these shares that are on sale
I think the recent market fall could have made these two shares too cheap to ignore.
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Retirement saving: why I’d buy these 2 FTSE 100 shares in an ISA or SIPP today
I think these two FTSE 100 (INDEXFTSE:UKX) shares could deliver improving outlooks after contrasting recent performances.
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LIVE MARKETS-Will Draghi pull a colony of rabbits off his hat?
Looks like ECB chief Mario Draghi will have to deliver it this time with July minutes reassuring a package was coming and expectations running high from research houses at big banks predicting significant easing in September. In July, markets rallied on Draghi's dovish stance but pulled back sharply after his conference, when he said a rate cut was not discussed during that monetary policy meeting.
