Irish Stock Exchange

BeginFinance

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone could help me or direct me to any useful websites? I am a student doing a report on the Irish stock market and I was jut wondering how it has fared over the last few months? I know that it has begun to do quite well in the last few days with the sale of BOI bonds and an increase in M&A in the last quarter of 2012.

I am by no means asking you to do this report for me! I am just asking experienced persons there own thoughts on the performance compared to other
markets or the finance stock markets performance as a whole?

If anyone could link me to any good websites which have analyse of the markets on a daily basis it would be great, I am already subscribed to Davy Select.

Thank you for taking the time to help me as it really is something I am interested in!

mix_up

yahoo finance uk , type in iseq and it shoud throw up some kind of fund , from there you can check performance charts going back years

mix_up

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EISEQ

Browney7

In your report It might be worth looking into how it performed excluding CRH as they account for approx 20% of the total index which is pretty big. Ise.ie is the stock exchange website

Rigor Mortis

You dont say what level student you are, college or secondary.

I would reckon any report into the ISE would need to spend a little time questioning its future role. In the last year or two, a number of its major players have moved their lprimary listing to london. In terms of new companies coming on board I think Fastnet was the only one last year (open to correction on that) and Continental Farmers the only one in the nine months before that.

BeginFinance

Sorry about that, Im a first year in college! I am making good head way with the report just have one question, How are the markets as a whole performing right now? I know the bond market is on the up but is there much point in investing now?

alanceltic

is there much point in investing now?

If anyone on here could answer that with certainty they would be rich. The best way to look at it that the market is a tool which AVERAGES all of the opinions of what a specific company/exchange is worth, where one person sees a good price (seller) another sees a weak price (buyer).

The trick is getting your decision on the right side of the line and people will always be at odds on this so your question could counjur up many different answers, none of which are incorrect (well at this point)

BeginFinance

Rigor Mortis wrote: »

You dont say what level student you are, college or secondary.

I would reckon any report into the ISE would need to spend a little time questioning its future role. In the last year or two, a number of its major players have moved their lprimary listing to london. In terms of new companies coming on board I think Fastnet was the only one last year (open to correction on that) and Continental Farmers the only one in the nine months before that.

Pardon me but I was under the impression the a company only really gets its profits from the IPO, after that it is the traders who make gains and losses, why would a company change markets to London?

alanceltic

Primary reason is a bigger investor base and this helps to bolster the share price and is attractive for existing shareholders, there other more minor reasons but the bigger pool of investors is the main reason. A higher share price also gives the company the option to raise further funds with lower dilution.

kmick

The ISE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Stock_Exchange
is shrinking
http://irishstockexchange.newsweaver.co.uk/images/27664/52634/2328825/Annual2011_2.pdf

Lots of companies delisting due to the fact the Irish market is too small for liquidity (i.e. not enough shares traded daily). Illiquid markets tend to perform poorly and cause other problems for traders e.g. inability to buy or sell a stock due to no sellers/purcahsers to complete the trade.
http://brianmlucey.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/tumbleweed-time-in-the-irish-stock-exchange/

Profits are not generated from IPO - Equity is. Equity is an option a company can use instead of borrowing (debt).

For some current market analysis see
http://wexboy.wordpress.com/tag/irish-stock-exchange/

In general markets are doing well
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5Egspc+interactive#symbol=^gspc;range=5y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

Believe no one when they assure you it is a good time to invest.

Small amounts of money invested regularly in stock markets over long periods of time tend to increase in value historically. Large swings in value are to be expected over those long periods. Treating it like a savings account for money you can afford to put away is a good strategy (when used as part of an overall strategy with cash, property, bonds, shares, pensions and perhaps some gold).