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Live Company Group – ramptastic "Update on K-POP”, now why might that be?

Live events and entertainment group Live Company (LVCG) has issued a “pleased to provide” update on its K-POP events occurring this year, including that Madrid ticket sales are now over 50%, increasing daily and a merchandising agreement is expected this week and that sponsorship and streaming agreements are in process. What of a more than 17% higher share price response to 2.05p?
COPL

Canadian Overseas shareholder wants to cremate Tom Winnifrith and Gary Newman then Guillotine us both

I shall leave you to ponder how one chops the head off ashes but one suspects that this shareholder in Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) is not the brightest spark as he wishes death on myself and Gary on the LSE Bulletin Boards. Of course if he’d sold and gone short at 25p as I advised he would, with the shares at 2.5p and set to fall to zero be happier and richer. But he knew better than a trained oil analyst and thinks he will get rich again if Gary and me are killed. Whatever...

LIFS

LifeSafe Holdings – “sales growth has continued to exceed the board's expectations”… but how impressive is it?

Describing itself as an “innovative fire extinguishing fluids and fire safety products” company LifeSafe Holdings (LIFS) has issued an AGM statement including that “sales growth has continued to exceed the board's expectations… becoming increasingly confident that the current outperformance of sales augurs well for trading in the second half of the year”. So what of a share price currently up to 41p?
Clown
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Gareth Tudor Williams – a public sector millionaire joins the real world aged 68, this silly selfish old man deserves to lose his home

Read the story below and tell me that you pity Gareth who claims to be a victim of mortgage misery.
Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Wildcat, I have rarely read such nonsense, Cakebox still does not stack up

I start with a few comments on the pound vs Euro and nonsense talked by my pal the Euroloon Jonathan Price and others. Then it is Deepverge (DVRG), MicroSaic (MSYS), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT), Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), now in the 2s, ETA the 1s?, Premier African (PREM), run by George (Cock)Roach, Chesterfield (CHF) and finally a long look at Cakebox (CBOX)
BEN
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Ben’s Creek now it has to borrow at credit card rates: more red flags vicar?

Luckily for MBU (mining advisor Mr. Adam Wilson of Daniel Stewart infamy) it has been dumping its shares in Ben’s Creek (BEN), CEO Mr. Adam Wilson of Atlantic Carbon/Coal infamy as fast as it can. Because today there is news of two more events in what is becoming an increasingly less slow motion car crash.
DEMG
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Deltex Medical – needs further funding within next 3 weeks!, shares suspended and hopefully my prior warnings were heeded

Previously writing on group which described itself as “the global leader in oesophageal doppler monitoring” Deltex Medical (DEMG), in February I wrote convertible loan notes extension, but still cash concerns? – including having already noted a £0.25 million extension to a £0.5 million loan facility from Chairman Nigel Keen, I questioned how’s the overall financial position now? and that I retained cash concern. Now a “Trading update and suspension of trading on AIM” announcement I suggest isn’t going to be good news!…

CINE
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Cineworld fesses to investors what it told staff two weeks ago, administration soon, share suspension "shortly"

To be fair, Cineworld (CINE) has explicitly warned the fools who still own its shares that as part of the Chapter 11 process they are going to lose everything. None the less, flagging up to staff as we revealed HERE, some two weeks before you tell investors that the PLC is going into administration seems a bit naughty to me. But today came the formal fess.

MSYS
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The collapse of Deeepverge Part 2 – is Microsaic also toast? Of course it is given the curse of Brandon

Earlier I suggested that today’s news means that Deepverge (DVRG) is a slam dunk zero and by the time the last rites are read, it is clear that those owed money will not get it all back. And that brings me to fellow AIM POS Microsaic (MSYS) , run by Gerry “the pustule” Brandon, the man who made Deepverge the company it is today. Nigel Burton who is now CEO of Deepverge also sits on the Microsaic board and the two company’s also share a broker: Turner Pope.

VSA
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Andrew Monk’s VSA Capital Results – who do you think you are kidding you pompous twit?

“Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive.” Andrew Monk, as he oft reminds us went to Oriel College Oxford where he studied rowing and name dropping. So he probably thinks the quote is from Shakespeare. You, dear reader, know that it is from Walter Scott, Marmion, A tale of Flodden Field. But in terms of Monk’s VSA capital (VSA) and its results out today it is apposite although, I should stress, the results are fully compliant with all accounting standards.
DVRG
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GOTCHA: Deepverge suspended pending clarification, its game over with £50m spaffed, as the curse of Brandon strikes, ouzo for the Sheriff

It is ouzo on my strawberries for breakfast at Sheriff of AIM Towers. For Gerry Brandon who broke AIM Rules in hiding a profits warning before a placing then published fraudulent interims before his next placing the imminent demise of Deepverge (DVRG) should be the end of his AIM career. He should be in jail as £50 million invested goes up in smoke.  Brandon may have “been resigned” just before Christmas but he was the architect of Deepverge’s failure.
LOK

Folks Needing a Hidey Hole for their Stuff could Motivate the Share Price of this Moving Venture

Hello, Share Shiners. Having been involved in a house-moving nightmare fairly recently, I appreciate the value of self-storage. The days of a simple move where you leave one property and move into your new one on the same day seem under attack. Nowadays, the exchange of homes is often so complex that you have to rent for a time before you find somewhere suitable to live. And that means putting your chattels into self-store.
Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: a lawyer writes to me re Bidstack and my comments on note 18

In today's Bearcast I discuss Piers Pottinger of the fraud MySquar (MYSQ) infamy, Parkmead (PMG), Bidstack (BIDS) and Invinity Energy Systems (IES) and why I'd not buy today's Midas tip and the seedy ramping by The Monkey.
EML
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Emmerson is nearing crunch time in terms of getting its potash project to the production stage - speculative buy

When it comes to natural resources companies looking to move into production, the time to buy is often when there is a lull in news flow and the stock is getting little attention, assuming of course that you believe that the project actually will be developed.
Professor
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Sunday Long Reads: Jim Cramer Wrong, Mountain for God, British Tech Charm Offensive, Titan’s First Voyage, Monkey Torture

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?

OCDO
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Ocado takeover chat: could anyone really love a distribution robot that much?

Just under a week ago, I concluded that “Ocado (OCDO) is not going to keep being a FTSE 100 company for much longer”. Given that the company’s shares - despite some general market volatility over recent days - rose 18% during the last week, what is going on? After all, I doubt if the UK population has suddenly found its personal finances can be starting a regular Ocado delivery visit…
Wolf-of-Wall-Street

Visual Aid: Comparing the Titanic to a Modern Cruise Ship

Ripped out of today’s headlines, here is a comparison on the sizes of the Titanic and  Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas, currently the world’s largest cruise ship. As usual, courtesy of  Visual Capitalist.


Gold
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The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Still Holds On

Gold finished the week at $1920 – down from last week’s $1958 and, for squiggle readers, below $1950 support but in the wake of hawkish central bank noises and the useless Andrew Bailey over here it was, for me, quite encouraging. 
Quiz
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The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #194

It's time for the ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz.. There are no prizes! And remember, no Googling!

AVO
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Advanced Oncotherapy – New Low As Disgraced Odey Continues to Dump

AIM-listed Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) shares  fell to just 2.375p per share on Friday as Odey Asset Management continued to dump the shares at any price it can get, having paid 25p for shares trading in the market for less. We warned you this was coming and with still 49 million bits of confetti to offload, there is more to come.
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