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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Telling a gardener to feck off for being a Good German and a long chat with Steve O'Hara

Yes I was dealing with a covidiot. We just cannot go on like this. If folks want to be Good Germans they can be but I cannot be arsed with such poltroons.  Then I look at Cineworld (CINE) prompted by this news from Ealing as well as my earlier piece HERE. My only question is whether my target is 0p or 2p.  Then SpaceandPeople (SAL) and words on overdrafts. That also applies to Omega Diagnostics (ODX) which I cover. Then today’s warning from the Bank of England is discussed and its importance and grim implications. Finally my chat with Steve O’Hara, forecasts for Optibotix (OPTI) and where the shares will be in three years.  

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SpaceandPeople – as shares slump, just how dire is the financial position? Statement from the company needed

Shares in promotional and retail merchandising space company SpaceandPeople (SAL) are currently more than 30% lower today at below 10p on no news. So what’s going on? Surely a statement from the company is needed…

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Welcome to the Circuit Breaker - Keanaissance, Julie Meyer breaks all GDPR rules to spam folks about her Greek B&B

The following email was sent out indiscriminantly by a woman who has told the IRS that she is too poor to pay a seven figure tax bill dating back to 2001. Whatever … It is Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer with another offer I am sure you will find easy to refuse … the tax evading old MBE still under an FCA criminal investigation writes:

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Applied Graphene – Small Riser From Another AIM Graphene Play, another bargepole

A rise in the shares of AIM-listed Applied Graphene (AGM) caught my eye today. Like Haydale (HAYD) and Versarien (VRS) – apparently – it is a graphene play on the world’s most successful growth market. So how is the growth here? Er…..

Bear
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January performance update: start of 2022 shorted AIM shares

Early this year we showed the shorted AIM shares at the start of 2022. How’s the performance (those in bold remain from 2021) as at the end of the first month?…

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EXPOSE: Verditek – a deceptively bad disposal booking a profit which will actually be a loss & even after the sale it is still insolvent!

The good news is that the £308,000 received from the sale of shares in ICSI will postpone insolvency by a few weeks. The bad news is that – unless there is a bailout placing – the company will still run out of cash well before Easter. In fact before half term. Now the morons reckon this deal will allow Verditek (VDTK) to book a profit. Well… er… sort of but not really. And even with this sale Verditek is still insolvent, or near as damn it.

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Virgin Wines – profit warning & as Chris Bailey warned, a lot was factored in. ANOTHER AIM IPO roll-call of shame...

Online wine retailer Virgin Wines UK (VINO) has made a trading update including noting “customers acquired during the Covid lockdown period continue to perform strongly. We were delighted to ship more than 7 million bottles of wine during the period and to deliver sizeable growth in our customer base with strong levels of customer conversion and retention… net cash balance of £13.6m at 31 December 2021”. So then why a current share price of 155p, down 22.5%!?

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The latest excitements at BT Group

Whilst we wait for the Bank of England to (sensibly) raise interest rates for the second time since December, the global corporate results season aggressively continues. Whilst I will ignore the volatility in the Meta (aka Facebook) share price dump overnight as I have never invested in the stock, one I do know about is BT Group (BT.A) whose share price is down over 3% today to under a 190p price as I write. So how do I feel about this stock?

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A resting banker explains why Cineworld is a zero

Lucian Miers and myself have repeatedly called out Cineworld (CINE) as a compelling short and those who have followed our calls have prospered. But the FT, the home of almost every wrong call in history from backing the UK joining the Euro to selling its gold in 1997, runs a story “Cineworld debt pile set to save cinema operator from bankruptcy.” You might think this is a reason to buy. Au contaire. A resting banksta writes to me to explain.

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Motorway Warehouse King Set to Keep on Trucking

Hello Share Fans. It’s been a while since I last brought Tritax Big Box (BBOX) before your quizical gaze. Since then the state-of-the art storage company has had a successful fundraising. And for once, this seems a beneficial event for shareholders. The cash raised will be used to buy loads more properties to rent out into a soaring market.

DX
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DX Group – argues “pleased to provide” trading update, but what about the murkier and murkier “corporate governance inquiry”?!

Logistics group DX (DX.) states that it “is pleased to provide an update on trading for the 26 weeks ending 1 January 2022” and that a “pipeline of new business opportunities remains extremely healthy”. Good news?

TERN
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Tern – Fundraise For Talking Medicines: Good News?

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern plc (TERN) announced yesterday that investee Talking Medicines had raised £1.59 million from a fundraise – including £400,000 from Tern. The company trumpeted that the value of its investment had therefore headed north from £0.86 million to £1.79 million. Is it time for the TERNers to crack open the Ouzo?

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Photo article: The City before WFH - do folks really want to return to this?

The Mrs reckons that having to do 4 hours of commuting a week for about 30 weeks a year is a fundamental breach of her human rights. How lucky she is never to have experienced the joys of 60 minutes twice a day on the London Underground as so many of us have done. The photo below is a remider of City life pre WFH. Do folks really want to go back to this?

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The Hitpiece NFT heist, the madness moves up another level

I start with Hitpiece  – the latest NFT scam. Aren’t all NFT’s scams? I discuss the ephemeral nature of contemporary music as an asset class. Then onto Amigo (AMGO) where – with the shares surging – it is surely ‘a mega’ short. Then it is onto regulatory and ethical failure at Braveheart (BRH) and Chamberlin (CMH), the common links being the scumbag Trevor Brown and the scallywags at Peterhouse Capital. Then on to more regulatory failure at Chill Brands (FRAUD) before I take along look at UK SPAC (SPC) and all who sail in her. Finally a few words on Optibiotix (OPTI) where I plan to catch up with Steve O’Hara later today.

CMH
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Chamberlin – placing it states it “is pleased to announce”, is it taking the piss?!

Foundry and engineering company Chamberlin (CMH“is pleased to announce that it has conditionally raised £1.8 million… at a placing price of 5 pence per share with institutional and other investors”… and the shares have currently responded down by more than 27%. So what’s going on?…

HEAD
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Listening to the Headlam investor call (late!)

Just under a week ago I talked about Headlam Group (HEAD), noting I have been a bit of a fanboy after doubling my holding during 2020 but I had a couple of questions for the company at an upcoming planned conference call (despite last week’s update observing “profit slightly ahead of expectations, with strong cash generation…Early trading in 2022 has been encouraging…has continued to be able to largely mitigate the persisting industry wide supply issues and associated inflationary pressures”). However because it was the first day of February and hence I was a bit busy, I did not make the live call. However – thanks to the power of the internet – I caught up with it earlier today. So what did I think?

OPTI

Cenkos Securities – Optibiotix shares to more than treble from 45p offer price

It is house broker so it is paid to be bullish and so feel free to ignore everything that follows. None the less, as a loyal shareholder myself, I agree with the valuation in a note out yesterday from Cenkos on Optibiotix (OPTI) commenting on its latest news. The note reads:

SYME
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Supply@Me Capital and the spoof website

Over a month has passed since the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) issued its 31 December 2021 trading update promising inventory monetisation revenue was due shortly.  In January 2022 the sole RNS was the notification of the issue of 594 million shares in respect of the December loan note repayment. I suppose it all depends on what you mean by “shortly.”

SDX
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SDX Energy – I warned, now I warn again. It’s a bargepole. SELL

It is some time since I last commented on SDX Energy (SDX), in fact it was over 2 ½ years ago when I last hammered the keyboard to record my views on this company. How time flies when Covid lockdowns stop one going to parties. Regardless, yesterdays RNS really was an ouzo moment when one looks at some of the detail. 

CHLL
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EXPOSE: Here’s how Chill Brands deceived its investors before Christmas

Since the Standard List is regulated – no sniggering at the back –  by the wretched FCA, lying to investors about the nature of a transaction is probably not considered to be a problem. Here is a deception and rule breach served up by the soon to be insolvent fraud Chill Brands (CHLL) on December 20 2021.

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