QIWI PLC (QIWI)

I bought this stock because I was looking for stocks with high yield dividends. It turned to ashes because of Vladimir Putin's decision to drop bombs on Ukraine. This stock is actually based in Cypress but it also has Russian connections and has been closed for trading for several weeks.

I bought this stock because I was looking for stocks with high yield dividends. It turned to ashes because of Vladimir Putin's decision to drop bombs on Ukraine. This stock is actually based in Cypress but it also has Russian connections and has been closed for trading for several weeks.

News: $QIWI QIWI Announces Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results

Second Quarter Total Adjusted Net Revenue Increases 23% to RUB 5,563 Million and Adjusted Net Profit Increases 125% to RUB 1,965 Million or RUB 31.58 per diluted share QIWI upgrades 2019 Guidance Board of Directors Approves Dividends of 28 cents per share NICOSIA, Cyprus, Aug. 19, 2...

Got this from QIWI Announces Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results

News: $QIWI QIWI Appoints Interim Chief Financial Officer

NICOSIA, Cyprus, May 16, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QIWI plc (NASDAQ: QIWI) (MOEX: QIWI) (“QIWI” or the “Company”), a leading provider of next generation payment and financial services in Russia and the CIS, today announced the appointment of Varvara Kiseleva, QIWI...

Got this from https://marketwirenews.com/news-releases/qiwi-appoints-interim-chief-financial-officer-8197400.html

News: $QIWI QIWI Announces First Quarter 2019 Financial Results

First Quarter Total Adjusted Net Revenue Increases 31% to RUB 5,367 Million and Adjusted Net Profit Increases 53% to RUB 1,653 Million or RUB 26.64 per diluted share QIWI upgrades 2019 Guidance Board of Directors Approves Dividends of 28 cents per share NICOSIA, Cyprus, May 16, 2019...

Got this from https://marketwirenews.com/news-releases/qiwi-announces-first-quarter-2019-financial-results-8197118.html

smart... im waiting for them to release their earnings in august then I make a decision.

So far glad I stepped aside at 19.

But still watching.

Brokerages Anticipate Qiwi PLC (QIWI) Will Announce Quarterly Sales of $61.89 Million

https://macondaily.com/2018/06/27/brokerages-anticipate-qiwi-plc-qiwi-will-announce-quarterly-sales-of-61-89-million.html

https://mtlnewsjournal.com/awesome-oscillator-check-on-this-stock-qiwi-plc-nasdaqqiwi-ao-touches-1-1271765/39846/

Earnings on May 23rd. So far this stock has rolled between the high 15s, low 16s and the high 18s, 19s, all the while slowly trending higher. I may give the swing-trade a go depending on how the earnings turn out.

US sanctions on Russia and Russian oligarchs seem to be the source of the drawdown right now. Here are a couple of lines cherry picked from Zerohedge

"Toxic Assets": Ruble Crashes, Russian Stocks Plunge Most In 4 Years After US Sanctions

"We haven’t seen such a united, mass retreat from Russian assets for a long time. The situation is ever more reminiscent of 2014.

Cryptos Crash As Russian Sanctions Ripple Through Markets.

Despite news that more ultra-elite family wealth (Rockefellers) is being aimed at cryptocurrencies, it seems the US sanctions against Russian oligarchs has created some anxiety in the space with Ethereum and Bitcoin plunging.

Likely (hopefully) a sympathy sell-off and a buying opportunity more than anything but time will tell. The people who truly run this country, our own oligarchs, seem intent on really pissing Russia off and have for a couple of years now. To what end I can only wonder.

No, they didn’t send an email. I thought they would have with their earnings but they did not. Another good day for this bad boy!

I do get NIA's emails and bought the stock the day they first announced it (at least the first day I saw a post from them). Got some in the 15's on that 5 mil vol day back in late Dec. But no, didn't see their recent email about earnings. That I saw posted from Seeking Alpha.
I do now look for the small print in NIA's emails as to whether they were paid to promote a company or not. As you and maybe others have noted, they don't seem to have been paid to promote this one and I like that others have also commented favorably on the name, notably the guy who posted in Seeking Alpha. I don't have a very big position here, sub 500 shares, and truth be told, I'm almost hoping we get that big waterfall decline so I can get into a few names I like at a discount to current levels (and play with TVIX). So I'm sitting with some positions but also +50% in dry powder and watching.

I do get NIA's emails and bought the stock the day they first announced it (at least the first day I saw a post from them). Got some in the 15's on that 5 mil vol day back in late Dec. But no, didn't see their recent email about earnings. That I saw posted from Seeking Alpha.
I do now look for the small print in NIA's emails as to whether they were paid to promote a company or not. As you and maybe others have noted, they don't seem to have been paid to promote this one and I like that others have also commented favorably on the name, notably the guy who posted in Seeking Alpha. I don't have a very big position here, sub 500 shares, and truth be told, I'm almost hoping we get that big waterfall decline so I can get into a few names I like at a discount to current levels (and play with TVIX). So I'm sitting with some positions but also +50% in dry powder and watching.

Yes, I didn’t get that early move it did. Weird. Agreed on everything you said. Not sure if you follow national inflation, they alerted me to this stock when it was in the 13 range. They have a pretty big following. They get paid for picks, but not this one. Surprised didn’t see an email from them about the earnings.

earnings call transcript. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4159673-qiwis-qiwi-ceo-sergey-solonin-q4-2017-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

The stock must have been tapping the low and racing upwards as you were typing your earlier post - much to yor relief I'm sure. Mine too.

I think the upcoming days should be good provided we don't get a waterfall decline in the indexes - a scenario that's not out of the question.

Huge volume! What a day

You know this should be near 21 now. Dang market screwed us. Someone scooped up some cheaper shares earlier today!

Big numbers. It’s been dragged down by the market. It would have been easily over 20 had this market not done what it’s done the last couple of weeks

QIWI (NASDAQ:QIWI): Q4 EPS of $0.13 beats by $0.05.

Revenue of $71.5M (+46.0% Y/Y) beats by $14.24M.

Great earnings this morning like I said yesterday

Earnings tomorrow, surprised so little action! Expecting some great numbers!

$19 a share and numbers should be really good next week, excitement is brewing

Post in Zero Hedge today about Otkritie Bank, which owns a bunch of shares, maybe needing a bailout. They the ones that made the big tender offer some months ago.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-16/russia-mulls-additional-trillion-ruble-bailout-failing-banks. "In August 2017 we noted Russia's largest private lender was in trouble and required a bailout. Then a month later, a second bank hit the wall and was bailed out. And now, five months later, Russia's central bank is mulling a further capital injection of a trillion rubles to rescue Otkritie and B&N Banks.


This is a portion of a very positive Seeking Alpha article on QIWI which mentions the bank. Likely you've all seen it already if you got here via NIA as some have mentioned:

".....In fact, as I discovered, the value in QIWI is so apparent that Otkritie, one of Russia's largest banks, in June of this year, commenced a tender offer to purchase for cash up to 24.8 million class B shares (QIWI has a dual share structure - there are 15.5 million class A shares and 45.08 million class B shares. Each class A share represents 10 votes, and each Class B share represents 1 vote) at a purchase price of $28.00 - a substantial premium to where it was trading then and where it is trading now. The tender offer was conditioned upon tendering of almost 50% of the class B shares not currently owned by Otkritie, and in the end, it failed. Only 12,539,256 shares had been tendered, significantly less than the minimum of 20,286,207 that was required (the tender failed after Mr. Solonin, who controls the company through preferential shares, said he would not sell despite a significant premium. Otkritie Bank then bought 12.2 percent of QIWI's shares for $99.5m from minority investors). Regardless, in an SEC filing by Otkritie, it was stated that it "continues to review its investment in QIWI and may, at any time, acquire additional securities in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, with or without prior notice." In fact, on October 11th, 2017, Otkritie true to its word, purchased 1,225,000 ADS (American Depository Shares) at a price of 985 rubles (approximately $17) and 833,000 more shares at the same price. On November 30, 2017, Otkritie once again went on a buying spree and purchased a total of 2,199,898 ADS at a price of 938,000 rubles (approximately $16 a share) and on December 1, 2017, an additional 2,200,000 ADS at the same price. It is pretty clear that notwithstanding the failed tender, Otkritie continues to be interested in acquiring shares of QIWI."

I'm long a smallish holding of the stock.

Finally hit 18, let’s keep rolling!

Anyone know what came out of the meeting yesterday?

Board has been quiet. Weird. When do we get earnings?

All good. Granted all of their stocks go up whether they are paid or not. But this one wasn’t. And whenever they have stock they aren’t paid for, expect paid things! Still it’s up $4 from their alert and we all know it’s going to rise more. Of course some need it to rise quicker than others-lol

Oops, my bad... wrong board

They were compensated $100,000 for this one...
Which is more than others for some reason. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing

Wow. This is the first time I've ever seen Motley and NIA agree on something. But if my history has taught me anything, it's that any huge news or PR will come one day after my options expire, then the pps will blow sky high.

News exposure yesterday - Motley - QIWI mentioned!!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-russia-stocks-consider-buying-000600054.html

Thanks for the feedback here. Accumulation needs to continue!

I also checked the NASDAQ short interest numbers for QIWI, and the short interest has increased from 189,819 on 12/29/17, to 358,182 as of 01/12/18.
Not a "big" number per se, but I think that it shows the short sellers have been responsible for this decline.

QIWI seems to be a "two steps forward, one step backwards" stock, but the momentum remains up and positive.
I looked at the technicals again this morning, and they all look good. $18.39 is the 200 day MA, and that is the target that QIWI needs to get through, and then stay above. Once that happens, we should see a nice move up.
I own the common stock, and some Feb 17.50 calls, and I am down 50% on the calls.
And some PR or any news about the Russian Cryptoruble would really help. For now - just hanging on.......

I hope you're right about the breakout coming soon. I picked up some February 16th $22.50 call options that are getting crushed right now. We need a huge PR.

When does it pay that next?

And it pays a 5% yield.

Same here I been watching nia for years now. This qiwi has me very interested.

I follow NIA as well, but they didn’t list any compensation for profiling this company. Maybe they did, but they didn’t list it. I mean plenty of stocks they do comped for, they list the amount of money, or how much stock they were given and for how long they are profiling for. But they didn’t list anything for this profile, which makes me more excited!

Yes, I did get QIWI from NIA, but I am not associated with them in any way.
My experience with them has been very good, as almost all of their recommendations over the past several years have been seriously good winners - including this one.
So, I take them as a good source of stock suggestions, even though I know they are getting comped for their recommendations.
And technically, QIWI looks very good with the next break-out coming at $19-20.

Are you here because of NIA?

Looking at the Daily and Weekly charts, and the MACD, this stock really looks good from a technical perspective. Just need to get the sellers out of the way......and some good news would help. There is also speculation that the buyer that failed a few months ago will come back with a higher offer - maybe around $30.00. Wouldn't that be sweet?

News soon! --Qiwi's share price is below the future cash flow value, and at a moderate discount (> 20%).

Real good day today. Let’s keep it above $18!

Killed? Just market makers accumulating more shares as volume was waning some. It seems we are due for some good news! This is being promoted now at yahoo finance when you google QIWI ---
http://www.capitalcube.com/blog/index.php/qiwi-plc-strong-price-momentum-but-will-it-sustain/?yptr=yahoo
The last paragraph is BULLISH !! .............
" Qiwi Plc’s price of USD 17.33 is lower than CapitalCube’s implied price of USD 22.73. CapitalCube believes that at these levels, Qiwi Plc is undervalued and has upside potential. Over the last 52 week period, the stock has fluctuated between USD 11.60 and USD 26.55."

Anyone know why QIWI is getting killed these past two days? I can't find any news on any site. Thanks......

Classic Bullish Flag has formed! We go higher with MOEX Exchange opening Monday after a week off for the Christmas vacation of Russian Orthodox.

Siberbank may want to use $QIWI as their man on the inside in the global #blockchain consortium. (Sberbank is majority owned by the state while Qiwi is privately held.) $QIWI has #Russian government and the Russian Central bank ownership behind it from their interest in #Otkritie.
QIWI is developing the #BitRuble #cryptocurrency.
It has backdoor support from the Russian government/Central bank.
On December 19, 2017, Bank Otkritie purchased a total of 992,058 QIWI ADSs
On December 20, 2017, Bank Otkritie acquired 9,652,297 QIWI ADSs

Aggregate amount beneficially owned by each reporting person
21,426,733
https://t.co/kxmpdBUPIH 0

Moar boatloads to come in future! See this - $QIWI may also be an unintended beneficiary of US sanctions against #Russia. #Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, tried to join R3 earlier but was rebuffed due to the US sanctions. Now Sberbank has joined Qiwi's Russian #blockchain consortium and Qiwi has joined R3.