What’s Steve D doing with his tights? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!

The Steves are back to winning ways in the stock market. But Steve W’s had a disaster on one name in particular…

The FTSE 100 made new highs, but Rentokil shares fell 20% in a day. Steve W owns this one and he’s been having a closer look. 

Results for Q2 don’t look too bad. But lower organic growth, operating margins, and declining market share isn’t a good combination.

Greggs shares might be at the start of a comeback. The stock surged after results this week, despite some good – but not great – results.

Is it a short squeeze, or is there more going on? Steve D has the latest news on the number of sausage rolls people are ordering when they don’t have to ask for them in person.

Microsoft shares surged this week after the company’s Q4 (as they call it) results. Revenue growth is strong and capex looks under control, but Steve W is looking at something else.

Satya Nadella outlined a really interesting plan. Instead of competing with OpenAI and Anthropic, why not just let them compete with each other and cash in?

We’ve had a user question from a viewer! How do we screen for stocks and what do we use?

The short answer is that we don’t really. But the reasons could be more involved and complicated than you might think…

Only on this week’s PlayingFTSE Podcast!

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► Timestamps:

0:00 INTRO & OUR WEEKS

7:33 RENTOKIL

21:21 GREGGS

38:43 MICROSOFT

55:38 HOW WE SCREEN FOR STOCKS  

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