{"id":966,"date":"2014-11-17T07:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T07:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=966"},"modified":"2014-11-17T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T07:58:50","slug":"the-national-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"The National Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK National Grid [<a title=\"National Grid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgrid.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.nationalgrid.com<\/a>]is the company that moves power from the power stations into the network known as The National Grid. The electricity\u00a0is\u00a0then distributed to end users via the local distribution network operators (DNO&#8217;s).<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"National Grid Financials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=51261&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=ng\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=51261&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=ng<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a335billion company, a member of the FTSE-100<\/p>\n<p>Equity investors are getting a <strong>4.5% yield<\/strong> on the investment.<\/p>\n<p>With a company with such massive cash flows (selling electricity has that benefit&#8230;), it is able to issue massive amounts of debt.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"National Grid Debt\" href=\"http:\/\/investors.nationalgrid.com\/~\/media\/Images\/N\/National-Grid-IR\/content-images\/graph-debt-info-highres-new.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/investors.nationalgrid.com\/~\/media\/Images\/N\/National-Grid-IR\/content-images\/graph-debt-info-highres-new.jpg<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The total level of Debt is ju<strong>st over \u00a321bn,<\/strong> with bonds maturing over an average of 12 years.<br \/>\nSo few short term cash calls for debt repayment. 65% issued in US Dollars and 35% issued in UK Sterling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK National Grid [www.nationalgrid.com]is the company that moves power from the power stations into the network known as The National Grid. The electricity\u00a0is\u00a0then distributed to end users via the local distribution network operators (DNO&#8217;s). [http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=51261&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=ng] A \u00a335billion company, a member of the FTSE-100 Equity investors are getting a 4.5% yield on the investment. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}