Last month Synectics (SNX) announced a half-year (to May 31^st) pre-tax profit of £0.5 million and said that period end net cash was £4.2 million. At a current 115p offer price, the market cap is £20.5 million, so how much upside potential is there? We believe there is enough value and impending newsflow to get the shares to 155p and here is why.

Having watched (sub)-Standard listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) get a smash-and-grab placing away at 7.5p per share (a 20% discount to the prevailing price) back in March on the back of some “interesting” boardroom buying, I confidently predicted that the stock would slump back to the IPO price of 3p before too long. Well, it has done worse than that, now sitting not so far away from the all-time low, at 1.775p. And today comes news of a stack of options and warrants in a midday RNS entitled “Amendment to the Stateline Option Agreement”. Except that as far as I can make out, the meat was the issue of the best part of 10 million options and warrants to directors, PMDRs, other members of staff and consultants. Oh, and don’t forget the death spiral!

Gold producer in the Philippines, Metals Exploration (MTL) has issued a second quarter update including that it “is well positioned for a strong second half of 2022 as the grade in the mine improves once the higher grade ore in Stage 3 is accessed”.

Fusion Antibodies (FAB) has announced it “continues to work on next generation antibody discovery, and we see significant opportunities in this field… has submitted a patent application in respect of the company's bispecific designs for antigen display”. What of a current approaching 15% share price rise on the back of this to above 100p?

Back in mid-January I wrote that I was going to buy some more shares in SIG plc (SHI), “a British-based international supplier of insulation, roofing, commercial interiors and specialist construction products”. Back then the stock was about 40p and today it is just above 35p. What do I now think after today’s first half numbers?

Transport data technology group Cordel (CRDL) states that it is “delighted by another major contract win in the UK”. So what of the shares currently responding approaching 24% higher to 6.5p?

Previously writing on utilities, civil engineering and energy infrastructure company Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), last year with the shares at 175p I noted the particularly eSmart Networks trajectory looked interesting but the possible trading recovery required and pre-Covid performance concerns saw these shares only on the watchlist. They last closed at 167p, and why are they currently down to 145p on the back of a “trading update”?

Today Alessandro Zamboni the boss of the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) issued an update to his update of 29 July stating:

It has been suggested to me that my criticism of Zak Mir’s Lift Global Ventures (LFT) is driven by jealousy in that The Sith Lord is clearly coining it in.  Au contraire. It is because everything about this stinks. And if the FCA and Aquis Regulation were not so utterly useless they would be all over this. Let me explain why.

Hello Share Planters. Oil and gas drilling is something I normally leave to my brighter colleagues on this glittering website. But I rather like the look of Touchstone Exploration (TXP).