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Insanity at FastForward Innovations, someone is definitely smoking something!
Madness is afoot at FastForward Innovations (FFWD) with the excitement about the impending listing of its cannabis play, Nuuvera, driving the share price up as high as 30p yesterday. This makes no rational sense as I will endeavour to explain but the summary is simple – if you like Nuuvera, buy it in the market for its market value rather than at 4-5 times its value!
- By Cynical Bear |
- 5 January 2018, 01:21 |
Top shorted London-listed shares at the start of 2018
We review the performance of the top shorted London-listed shares as at the start of each year. For 2017 that review is HERE and, from the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, we now have the ten top shorted London-listed shares at the start of 2018...
- By Steve Moore |
- 5 January 2018, 01:16 |
As the Ebony Nectar Soars, this British Support Company Could Soar with it
Hello, Share Twinklers. Oil is the hot sector at the moment. The price of Brent Crude is recovering fast. Still a long way to go to those heady days of the $120 barrel, but it’s moving up strongly again.
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 5 January 2018, 01:05 |
CyanConnode – from not aware of developments that justify share price decline… to a trading warning in less than 4 weeks!
On 11th December CyanConnode (CYAN) noted the (downward) movement in the share price and that it was “not aware of any corporate developments that justify such a movement”. Today a Trading Statement announcement. Should be fine then…
- By Steve Moore |
- 4 January 2018, 08:20 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - Roll call of shame Arden & the ethically bankrupt mothers at Yellow Jersey
In today's bearcast I look firstly at Debenhams (DEB) and its Christmas trading statement/profits warning. I do not believe what it says on cost cutting going forward and explain why. I do not believe its profits guidance for 2018 either and as such even on an apparent 2018 PE of 7 it is a sell. I also look at Ethernity Networks (ENET) - six months from IPO to shock profits warning, what a disgrace and at Be Heard (BHRD) which forgets that sales are vanity...
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 4 January 2018, 06:15 |
Cambria Automobiles – continues “in line”, but value or value trap?
Previously writing on Cambria Automobiles (CAMB) I stated trading “in line”, but can that be continued? Today there’s an announcement of “Franchising developments & AGM trading update”…
- By Steve Moore |
- 4 January 2018, 06:00 |
Fox Marble - new sales deal, placing, debt for equity swap. All good news!
I knew about this. I was an insider as well as a loyal shareholder. And for that reason I declined to make Fox Marble (FOX) one of my tips of the year. Otherwise I would have been sorely tempted. 2018 may well be the year of the Fox.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 4 January 2018, 03:55 |
Whitbread - in Crozier we trust
I have already given my excuses concerning my 2017 tip of the year Whitbread (WTB), which only went dully up last year. I concluded in that piece that I would 'hold on' and I am. Today's announcement of a change at the top of the company's management structure reiterates such a position.
- By Chris Bailey |
- 4 January 2018, 03:44 |
Big Sofa - finally the contract wins arrive, not one but two! Very strong buy
Like London buses you wait for ages and then suddenly they all arrive at once. Big Sofa (BST) has announced two major contract wins with Target Corporation, a leading US retailer, and Zurich North America, the US company of the global insurance group.
- By HotStockRockets |
- 4 January 2018, 03:30 |
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Dragon's Den Julie Meyer MBE: Putting flagship company into administration is something "every entrepreneur has to do" - whatever you say love
Ex Dragon's Den star Julie Meyer MBE has always struck me as a massive self publicist and an AI bullshitter. Her UK firm Ariadne Capital was put into administration on December 15 but Meyer has published a video (below) claiming that this was all planned and something "every entrepreneur has to do." Hmmm, it is worth having a butchers at La Meyer's track record and also Ariadne's accounts.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 4 January 2018, 01:59 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast - what to make of the "bid approach" for the FRAUD MySquar
After leaking stories of a bid approach to the fraudsters favourite website, MySquar (MYSQ) put out an odd statement yesterday. The shares rocketed. What to make of it all? Remember this is a company that comitted large scale and blatant securities fraud in July 2017 and view matters in that context.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 4 January 2018, 01:45 |
UK Oil & Gas - Christmas share price competition. And the winner is...
On setting the competition at the end of November, shares in UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) were 3.85p bid. It was unlucky for Dave Jenkins as a share price-bashing “Operational, Technical & Corporate Update” was announced at attempted no-one watching o'clock 27th December - I was watching though...
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 4 January 2018, 01:43 |
Though the Oil Price Spurts, Shell and BP Aren't Keeping Pace. A Buying Opportunity, Mayhap?
Hello Share Twangers. After a phoney war start, this winter is turning out to be quite chilly. Most of us saw snow over the Christmas period and though things have warmed up a bit now, there’s still an icy wind blowing. And it's even colder in many parts of the world, including the USA which is seeing temperatures plunge to record lows. Europe has also been unnaturally cold. All this has the effect of using up oil reserves.
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 4 January 2018, 01:20 |
Concepta's Christmas present NOT - but still very much a buy
Concepta (CPT) has removed an unwanted duplicated cost by letting go of Beaufort Securities as its joint broker, leaving Novum as its sole broker. That's the good news. The less good news came on the last trading day before Christmas when we were told;
- By HotStockRockets |
- 3 January 2018, 07:31 |
Applied Graphene Materials – argues at AGM “pleased with the progress”, BUT…
With “the number of active engagements increased significantly in the year and currently stands at around 100”, an AGM statement from Applied Graphene Materials (AGM) emphasises “the board remains pleased with the progress that the group is making towards the commercialisation of its products and proprietary technologies… Following on from our initial production orders the business secured additional production orders”. Sounds encouraging…
- By Steve Moore |
- 3 January 2018, 07:16 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - taking on a company whose shareholders are some of the most moronic of morons
In today's podcast I spend a lot of time looking at Pantheon Resources (PANR) - when is the next bailout placing? I make wider observations about this sector. There is then a direct challenge to Mileestone (MSG) about Lyin' Larry and to its Nomad Cairn Financial. I then look at Mila (MILA) and MySquar (MYSQ) commenting on how some AIM CEO's groom BBMs like peadophiles groom their victims. Sam Antar has made the same analogy . It is all about gaining trust.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 3 January 2018, 05:10 |
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Neil Woodford - now about the missing dividends and another thing
I gather that Neil Woodford's office has been busy dealing with questions relating to our most excellent series of articles and podcasts over Christmas. I have been made aware of its responses which are detailed but still leave me feeling incredibly unsettled on two major factors.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 3 January 2018, 04:21 |
Corero Network Security – “Significant Contract Wins”. Hmmm, what about the cash crunch ahoy?
Corero Network Security (CNS) “is pleased to announce” combined customer orders “worth in excess of $400,000 for SmartWall products and related one-year support services”. What’s the detail and import of this?...
- By Steve Moore |
- 3 January 2018, 03:58 |
Zac "the Knife" slates Pantheon Resources over complete lack of transparency
Shares in Pantheon Resources (PANR) are slumping today, off 25% at 52p on an operational update which can, at best, be described as a Curate's Egg. I have long viewed this company as unexciting, at best, and find the unbridled enthusiasm of some of its bulletin board moron shareholders just impossible to fathom. I am not the only cynic. The City's No 1 oil analyst Zac "the Knife" Phillips of SP Angel opines today:
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 3 January 2018, 03:48 |
NEXT gives you all a late Christmas present
Well done Next (NXT). Despite the Sunday Times suggesting a retail shocker last Sunday, the waxing and waning of the British weather helped the company to pucker up and generate a positive surprise in its full price sales metric as the company noted in its statement from earlier today:
- By Chris Bailey |
- 3 January 2018, 02:40 |