Games Workshop Group Historical Stock Chart

[Godlikebuthumble]

Aside from general curiosity, and an interest in the \"history\" of one of our main suppliers of pewter crack: this chart is also an one of the main pillars of what influences the GW suits\' decisions, i.e. shareholders. If it\'s a good time to buy shares, do so and be sure to have (however little) more influence on their decisions regarding pricing and such as any disgruntled veteran with a well-written letter... just sayin\'

 

[ScottRadom]

If I was runnin\' better financially, I\'d scoop some up.

My investor dude told me a while back when I asked him about putting money into GW that it\'s might be fun as sort of a \"hobby\" investment (like investing in beer or your fav motorcycle company) but for me their was about a billion better things to do with my money. Like spend it on GW toys I guess.

He said that a couple years back, so maybe with the dip it wouldn\'t be a bad time. Or, quite as likely, they\'re still a million better opportunities for money to be made with our investment dollars.

But I do think it\'d be fun to owna little. Just like my dude said, as a \"hobby\" investment. Then when I comment on the \'eavy metal team\'s painting, I could act like I was their boss. That\'d be fun!

 

[EArkham]

Originally posted by supervike
What do hobbyists hope to gain/know from the historic stock prices of a gaming company?

As a general indicator of the health of their hobby. If GW suffers, it directly impacts a lot of gaming that goes on, even if you don\'t buy their stuff. By looking at it historically, you can get a feel for what GW does during times of boon and times of crisis.

I mean, it\'s not like a gas company. They have problems, it pretty much just affects the price of fuel. Can\'t really see losing a \"favourite line of fuel\" but a cutback with GW could mean fewer releases for army X or Y.

As however admittedly screwy that sort of comparison is, heh.

Plus, you know. Nerds. We\'re into overanalysis and over-reacting. It\'s our lifeblood.

Kep

 

[Jericho]

Good call, Kep

Anyway I don\'t think it really changes our day to day life very much if the stock dips or rises a few points, but like everybody says GW could very easily take some drastic measures (again) if the stock prices drop (again) and that could really have some negative consequences for the average gamer (again).

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by EArkham

Plus, you know. Nerds. We\'re into overanalysis and over-reacting. It\'s our lifeblood.

Kep

Nuff said!!:beer::beer:

 

[james9487]

Another possibility is that the stock price was over-inflated by LOTR expectations (stock price isn\'t perfectly correlated with profit). I think I remember somebody posting the GW income statement a few years ago and they were losing money from LOTR, so maybe once that info came out, the bubble of expectations was burst. Their sales haven\'t fluctuated as dramatically as the stock prices, so I think a lot of the stock price variance is just changes in future outlook.

Also, they\'re making The Hobbit into two movies that come out at the end of 2011 and 2012, so maybe GW is just chugging along with the LOTR line until then, and then they\'ll stop spending money on it once the renewed interest dies down for good.

 

[ScottRadom]

What bugs me is that the LotR thing need not crash like it did. Slow down, sure, but Star Wars stuff is always selling, and I think GW LotR stuff could continue to do so IF they put out good stuff. I packed it in when they released those retarded supplements with the camel riding blowpipe guys. That was it. To see something that dumb just made me lose my stuff.

But for the stock themselves, I think GW looks to be doing things a little better. LOOKS I say. Finally making progress on a 40k movie is great. I see much better models for the most part, and their plastic stuff is getting down right scary. The Space hulk stuff is bitchin\'.

I think GW stuff is on an upturn as of late. Greatsword pricing aside I have been pleasently suprised by soem of the prices of things. Plastic Chaos maurader horse and such. Quality is getting better, WD is getting a little better. Good painting articles, better battle reports (a little) and such.

I hope they go on a good run. Even if you don\'t buy their stuff they do a good job of puching the industry I think. Their washes are great, I love the foundation paints. Their plastic mini\'s are defo the standard for that stuff.

 

[Dragonsreach]

GW revamped a lot of their \"in-house\" performance as well.
Don\'t forget that the dumped a lot of their \"Dead Stock\" back into the casting process to reduce the amount of capitol that they had sat on wharehouse shelves not earning any cash.
Now that caused two reactions: Some really bad casting issues, Loss of the Bitz business. And while I can sympathise with the need to maintain cashflow and not have loss incurring stock, the cancelation of the ability to order bitz has really hit the hobby to verterans and people who want to try their hand at quailty conversions.