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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the price of a loaf of bread was 26p in 1980 & I bet teachers were lazy then too

In today's bearcast I discuss lazy teachers, share buybacks, Lloyds (LLOY), Victoria (VCP), gold and bread prices annd signs of a top in gold stocks and what my target is for Jubilee Metals (JLP). Then there is Ben's Creek (BEN) where the 0p target is perhaps just days away. Let the recriminations begin...
TGP
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Tekmar – “Contract Awards”, but announcement RNS Reach attempted ramptastic?

“Contract Awards”-titled announcement from Tekmar Group (TGP) includes that it “is pleased to announce it has recently secured a number of contract awards, with a cumulative value of approximately £6 million” and emphasising that it is “continuing to secure contract volume on more favourable terms and our pipeline and enquiry book remains healthy”. So what of a current more than 5% higher share price response to 9.25p?
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Video: From a Cyclical Low to a Super Bull – Why This Could be Gold’s Decade

Analyst Adam Hamilton says that the recent rally in gold prices is driven by fundamentals, technicals, and sentiment, with seasonality playing a small role. He noted that gold stocks are undervalued compared to gold prices, presenting a significant opportunity for investors.
CGO
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Contango – from no plans to raise to a raise in just four months

Contango (CGO) is the sort of POS that gives the Standard List such a bad name. Operating a coal mine in Zimbabwe you might have thought that it was profitable . More fool you. Today it has raised £940,000 at just 1p, as I predicted it would last week,. However, if one goes back to December 8 with the shares having slumped from well over 5p to just over 4p the company announced that despite its shares sliding there was nothing wrong, indeed it continued to attract corporate interest in its mine. And…
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Eden – how long will its cash last? Time for a Jo Hart mea culpa?

Thanks to ludicrous pumping by the preposterous Jo Hart of the Mail on Sunday Midas column, who appeared happy to ignore 27 years of non-delivery with a very good sprinkling of fraud, shares in Eden Research (EDEN) surged last year allowing it to get a £9 million placing away at 6.5p. But how quickly is it spaffing that cash? How much is left?
WPHO
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Windar Photonics – what’s the “proposed placing” really mainly for?…

“New Order, Trading Update and Proposed Placing”-titled announcement from LiDAR wind sensor and software company Windar Photonics (WPHO) today with CEO Jorgen Korsgaard Jensen emphasising “this new order also makes history for the company as it records its first revenue stream from software sales… look forward to continued progress as we seek to expand our offering further by selling not only upfront software licenses but also additional performance software-related improvement services”. So what of the shares currently at 34p in response?
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Oi Monkey, Invinity statement needed, your six weeks are up

The bear case, as pushed by Evil Banksta, is that Invinity Energy Systems (IES) has a very full valuation even at 22.5p and that it will run out of cash by July so will have to do a placing, probably at a discount soon. The bull case is that if one makes long term extrapolations then on a DCF basis a market cap of £43 million is a bargain and that a strategic investor will bail Invinity out at a premium. I bring you two statements made by the company:
BEN
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Ben’s Creek: the Fat Lady is now gargling

Ben’s Creek (BEN) is – as I have warned for so long - a company that was always going to go bust. Now it seems that the Fat Lady is gargling.
Ben’s has sent an additional shipment of 20,000 tons of “off spec” i.e. sub standard coal to its 29.9% shareholder Avani selling it at just $60 a ton, as opposed to the normal coal price of $195. Avani has paid a Bernie up front and the remaining $200,000 will be paid on delivery. This is not a commercial deal it is just a way of staying afloat for a few days longer. Indeed Ben’s admits its fecked.
KEFI
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WOW and Kefi you really are a twit

Almost every day someone describing themselves as WOW, a reader of this website, sends me an hostile or demanding email about Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI). I now put them in spam but I bring you an idea of the tone with today’s missive.
Black-Swan
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Gender diversity boosts financial performance: the GroupThink lie that hurts us all.

It is seen as a given by the political, media and corporate elites.. Diversity boosts financial returns so is not only desirable but is a moral imperative. But, as I have noted many times, the data does not back this up. Before Christmas BlackRock released a report again pushing this line with the FT and City AM rushing to push the report and its conclusion. Nobody challenges the GroupThink on diversity lest they be accused of being sexist, racist, homophobic or all three. But that BlackRock report was utterly flawed as is demonstrated below.
Bearcast
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Tom Winifrith Bearcast: Malcolm is 'avin' a Turkish if he thinks Lloyds is worth a quid

I disagree with Malcolm Stacey on buying shares in Lloyds Bank (LLOY) and explain why.
Professor
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Sunday Long Reads: Farming Carauba, Woke Meltdown, Killer Culverts, Fighting the Metric System, Guinness World Records

Sunday is a good time to sit back, read, and forget about shares. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don't you?

Professor

Visual Aid: Top Emerging Markets for Investment in 2024

In this graphic, we illustrate the top 10 emerging markets according to their foreign direct investment momentum in 2024. 

GPM
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Gold Stocks – My Take On Why They’ve Still Got A Long Way To Go

Tom Winnifrith discussed why Gold stocks are not even higher in yesterday’s Bearcast and set some possible price targets. I thought I would do the same, from my perspective as a Gold-loon. We have differing portfolios, but some shares are the same – time will tell who might be right!
Quiz
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The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #235 - a special 11

It's time for the ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz..  Last week, due to an accounting error, there were only nine questions instead of the usual ten. So there are eleven this week. There are still no prizes! And remember, no Googling!

Top-10

Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending 6 April

Here are the most read articles and the most listened-to Bearcasts over the past seven days. The most read non-Tom article last week is Nigel Somerville with The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Tries And Fails To Push Further Higher at No 12 or No 20 including Bearcasts. 

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: why are gold stocks we all own not even higher? Setting targets for a few I do own

My gold portfolio is doing well but remembering the last bull market should it not be doing even better. I discuss that and set a few targets for when I will be selling shares like Centamin (CEY), Ariana (AAU) and Amaroq (AMRQ) which, together with Jubilee Metals (JLP) are my biggest mining holdings.
ATYM
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Atalaya Mining - £4 Short-Term Tip Target Achieved: What To Do Now?

Back on 3rd December, a Sunday, I suggested that AIM-listed Atalaya Mining (ATYM) was worth a flutter for a re-rate to come. The shares had closed the previous Friday at 327p and opened on the Monday at 332p. My thinking was that with the company planning to move to the main market and changing its domicile as part of the process, allowing trackers to take a position as it surely headed for the FTSE250, it would create additional buying pressure which would move the shares northwards.
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A new alternative Bearcast link for those having problems

Some Bearcast listeners – like me – are still having trouble getting new Bearcasts  with the Apple Podcast player on iPhones and computers. This is some sort of Apple issue – the secret Bearcast feed works fine for everyone else. So I have created a temporary workaround until Apple pulls its finger out of its ear.

BELL
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Belluscura – do I want to bet against Mr. Magic?

Betting against Britain’s Buffett Nigel Wray and the great Adam Reynolds of keyboard infamy by shorting Belluscura (BELL) has been a profitable trade and you can thank me all for your vast profits by bringing a gift of a bottle of Metaxa to Sharestock. But now John Gunn has entered the scene. No not the John Gunn of Inspirit (INSP), but John Humphrey Gunn, a man known in the 1980s as Mr Magic.
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