Mostly Rational;255687 wrote:S Dobbo;255683 wrote:I don't hold RCP at the moment, but I'm surprised there haven't been any share buy backs or directors purchases since it took the hit. Not really the show of confidence I would've expected!
They may be in a closed period until the publication of their annual results.
I think it may be more prosaic, the family already have "enough", between Hannah, Lord Rothschild & the charity holding, they control 21% or so.
Family controlled Trusts tend to be less keen on DCM, if they issue shares they dilute their own holding, and with that, their control. On the buy back side, they don't much care if they're on a discount and why shrink the Trust to make us barbarians at their gates feel better? No skin of their nose, they don't need the marketing appeal in the same way say CGT do. It's a family office, one we happen to be able to tag along, but it's run for them, then for us (and we pay them for this largesse!)
Bought back at 1986p earlier, it's been a decent entry recently, but it needs to re find it's mojo soon.