Sky City Entertainment Group Ltd [SKC.NZX] has just been announced as the preferred bidder for the New Zealand National Convention Centre.
This will cost approximately $350 million to be funded by Sky City.
The funding for the centre comes with a negotiation over gaming rules so that the company can expand their gaming offers at their Auckland Casino, something that has been previously barred by legislation. Previously the bulk of the funding would have come from the taxpayer in the Sky City Convention Centre proposal but in return for shareholders funding the loss making centre CEO Nigel Morrison clearly would like some payback for his generous gift.
News reports on Sky City winning the bid have left out detail about previous bidders all relying on the taxpayer subsidy - including the Auckland City Council proposal - so those that are ill-informed or playing politics about yesterdays news might think or give the impression that Sky City are getting a special favour from Government for them to even consider changing gaming laws.
Now clearly Sky City could be set to benefit - although that is not a given - from the extra foot traffic the convention centre brings into the casino proper but given the tough economic conditions the world and country is facing the taxpayer should not look the Sky City gift horse in the mouth.
As I said above politics is already playing a part in this with the Labour opposition making a comment yesterday and local politics will come into play as well, even though the left-wing Mayor is backing the proposal several members of the council have made recent public comments about their opposition to the casino expanding any part of their business.
The council had their own convention centre proposal and of course must rubber stamp any expansion to the Sky City Auckland site and I see some very strident opposition coming from various members of council that may see it scaled back or changed some way and certainly any expansion of the gaming floor will be checked at every point.
This is an exciting proposal for the city of Auckland, it will provide jobs and add value to businesses all around the CBD and possible value to shareholders if the company negotiates a good relaxation of gaming rules.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Share Investor Portfolio: Value @ 10 June 2011
The Share Investor Portfolio was down in the second week of June, the third time in 3 consecutive weeks - the longest losing streak since tracking for this portfolio began. The portfolio was down by 0.6% or $1621.20 on the June 3 update . For the first 22 weeks of 2011 the portfolio has increased by 12.86 % or $32703.13 . This weeks drop was due, primarily, to a 12c drop in SKC, extending last weeks 12c loss. There were a number of smaller falls and good rises in other stocks like MFT, BGR & RYM but if not for a rally of 21c for FRE the portfolio would have been down over $3000.00 more than it was.
The total of unspent dividends and interest in the bank as at 26 May from the 2010 - 2011 earnings years is $25382.95 at close of reporting season for 2010 and at the end of the 2011 1st half reporting year. There are also approx $55000.00 in tax credits earned from the portfolio since it began in late 2002.
The Share Investor Portfolio has increased in value by 17.65% or $46460.38 since I began tracking it for this blog on October 11 2010.
Stock | Quantity | Cost price | Total cost | Market price | Market value | Change | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,000 | $1.700 | $3,400.00 | $2.260 | $4,520.00 | $1,120.00 | 32.94% | |||
| 2,000 | $1.510 | $3,020.00 | $2.260 | $4,520.00 | $1,500.00 | 49.67% | |||
| 558 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $2.260 | $1,261.08 | $1,261.08 | ||||
| 754 | $2.150 | $1,621.10 | $2.260 | $1,704.04 | $82.94 | 5.12% | |||
| 3,109 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $0.700 | $2,176.30 | $2,176.30 | ||||
| 6,891 | $1.000 | $6,891.00 | $0.700 | $4,823.70 | $2,067.30 | 30.00% | |||
| 619 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $1.500 | $928.50 | $928.50 | ||||
| 2,381 | $0.990 | $2,357.19 | $1.500 | $3,571.50 | $1,214.31 | 51.52% | |||
| 284 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $8.660 | $2,459.44 | $2,459.44 | ||||
| 830 | $9.750 | $8,092.50 | $8.660 | $7,187.80 | $904.70 | 11.18% | |||
| 3,000 | $2.350 | $7,050.00 | $2.930 | $8,790.00 | $1,740.00 | 24.68% | |||
| 1,365 | $3.720 | $5,077.80 | $2.930 | $3,999.45 | $1,078.35 | 21.24% | |||
| 635 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $2.930 | $1,860.55 | $1,860.55 | ||||
| 2,054 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $3.470 | $7,127.38 | $7,127.38 | ||||
| 6,577 | $3.630 | $23,874.51 | $3.470 | $22,822.19 | $1,052.32 | 4.41% | |||
| 586 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $1.300 | $761.80 | $761.80 | ||||
| 1,414 | $2.330 | $3,294.62 | $1.300 | $1,838.20 | $1,456.42 | 44.21% | |||
| 299 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $3.900 | $1,166.10 | $1,166.10 | ||||
| 701 | $2.530 | $1,773.53 | $3.900 | $2,733.90 | $960.37 | 54.15% | |||
| 763 | $1.480 | $1,129.24 | $1.035 | $789.71 | $339.54 | 30.07% | |||
| 237 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $1.035 | $245.30 | $245.30 | ||||
| 1,000 | $7.960 | $7,960.00 | $10.010 | $10,010.00 | $2,050.00 | 25.75% | |||
| 1,838 | $8.000 | $14,704.00 | $10.010 | $18,398.38 | $3,694.38 | 25.13% | |||
| 1,375 | $4.200 | $5,775.00 | $10.010 | $13,763.75 | $7,988.75 | 138.33% | |||
| 787 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $10.010 | $7,877.87 | $7,877.87 | ||||
| 1,646 | $0.860 | $1,415.56 | $0.920 | $1,514.32 | $98.76 | 6.98% | |||
| 7,000 | $0.630 | $4,410.00 | $0.920 | $6,440.00 | $2,030.00 | 46.03% | |||
| 494 | $1.050 | $518.70 | $0.920 | $454.48 | $64.22 | 12.38% | |||
| 860 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $0.920 | $791.20 | $791.20 | ||||
| 31 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $0.260 | $8.06 | $8.06 | ||||
| 1,500 | $0.440 | $660.00 | $0.260 | $390.00 | $270.00 | 40.91% | |||
| 1,004 | $0.800 | $803.20 | $0.260 | $261.04 | $542.16 | 67.50% | |||
| 1,000 | $3.090 | $3,090.00 | $1.160 | $1,160.00 | $1,930.00 | 62.46% | |||
| 1,000 | $2.870 | $2,870.00 | $1.160 | $1,160.00 | $1,710.00 | 59.58% | |||
| 939 | $4.200 | $3,943.80 | $1.160 | $1,089.24 | $2,854.56 | 72.38% | |||
| 975 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $1.160 | $1,131.00 | $1,131.00 | ||||
| 1,086 | $1.530 | $1,661.58 | $1.160 | $1,259.76 | $401.82 | 24.18% | |||
| 555 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $2.800 | $1,554.00 | $1,554.00 | ||||
| 4,445 | $1.970 | $8,756.65 | $2.800 | $12,446.00 | $3,689.35 | 42.13% | |||
| 5,750 | $7.430 | $42,722.50 | $3.460 | $19,895.00 | $22,827.50 | 53.43% | |||
| 1,000 | $7.600 | $7,600.00 | $3.460 | $3,460.00 | $4,140.00 | 54.47% | |||
| 2,750 | $7.700 | $21,175.00 | $3.460 | $9,515.00 | $11,660.00 | 55.06% | |||
| 1,431 | $8.750 | $12,521.25 | $3.460 | $4,951.26 | $7,569.99 | 60.46% | |||
| 272 | $4.720 | $1,283.84 | $3.460 | $941.12 | $342.72 | 26.69% | |||
| 25,712 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $3.460 | $88,963.52 | $88,963.52 | ||||
| 78 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $2.650 | $206.70 | $206.70 | ||||
| 303 | $4.740 | $1,436.22 | $2.650 | $802.95 | $633.27 | 44.09% | |||
| 4,500 | $3.730 | $16,785.00 | $3.690 | $16,605.00 | $180.00 | 1.07% | |||
| 6,979 | $6.000 | $41,874.00 | $3.690 | $25,752.51 | $16,121.49 | 38.50% | |||
| 15 | $3.710 | $55.65 | $3.690 | $55.35 | $0.30 | 0.54% | |||
| 3,506 | $0.000 | $0.00 | $3.690 | $12,937.14 | $12,937.14 |
Total cost | Market value | Change | |
$269,603.44 | $349,081.58 | $79,478.14 |
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Burger Fuel Worldwide Ltd: FY 2011 Profit Commentary
You might think that since Burger Fuel Worldwide Ltd [BFW.NZX] have made a maiden profit of just under $34,000.00 in the year to March 31 2011 after 4 years of trying and millions spent getting there that I would be starting to sing the company's praises from the roof-tops but I am still pretty damb negative even after their first result with black ink.
Lets have a look at some of the key figures:
Profit of $33,513.00 up on last years $552,983.00 loss.
Revenue of $8.326 million down on last years $8.722 million
Middle East stores performing well.
$1,213,785 in cash & no debt.
On first look and if you ignore that it took 4 years to get here, the signs look OK.
Heres the fly on the burger bun though, while the losses have been pared back by more than half a million that has been done by cost cutting rather than an improvement in the operation of the business and in absence of revenue growth, the company, who is a franshisor and gets it revenue from a portion of sales from franchisees, continues to put the focus in its profit releases on how much sales at their franchisees stores have increased rather than focusing on the bottom-line at the parent company.
Fine, revenue is supposed to increase as sales at its franchisees stores grow but we just haven't seen this yet and investors need to know just when the current $8.2 million odd is going to be translated into a decent sustained profit.
Management are very bullish about expansion in the Middle East but investors should note that we have seen this kind of exuberance before - in terms of bullish growth projections in Australasia pre-IPO - and it has turned into nothing but broken promises.
We need to see some good sustained profits before I can give this company a pass mark.
4 out of 10.
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