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The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #179

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

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Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending 11 Mar 2023

The most-read non-Tom non-Quiz article this week is Ariana Resources – Bad News From Tavsan, But Still A Buy by Nigel Somerville at No 3 or No 9 including Bearcasts.

TNT
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Tintra – more and more questions vicar? This stinks to high heaven!

Even Stevie Wonder can see the red flags waving here. And you don’t need any sense of smell to detect the stench at Tintra (TNT). It continues to raise money at a massive premium to its current mid share price of 150 pence and to an ongoing death spiral conversion. The RNS issued on 10 March indicates that another unidentified investor is paying 1178 pence per share as set out below:
GetAFix

The Legend of the Five Golden Rules for Making Mauzuma in the Share Game.

Hello Share Followers. Here are the top five rules you should strictly obey if you want to make big money from our wonderful hobby. As investors prudent enough to follow this glittering website, you’ll already know them. But with temptation to break these rules assailing us every day, a reminder (or warning) is always useful.
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Insig AI – “Generative AI Product Capability”, the initial announcement not sufficiently ramptastic?

An announcement on “Generative AI Product Capability” is the latest from Insig AI (INSG) – a “data science and machine learning”technology company I previously commented on just before Christmas. What of a now 13.5p share price, above £13 million market cap?
WAND
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The fraud WANdisco – it was always a dog

Yesterday we learned of the mammoth fraud at Wandisco (WAND) which may well sink it. Bulls always pointed to huge forecast earnings but while the FCA always tells us that the past is no guide to the future it often is. We perma bears pointed to the actual numbers.
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Hostmore – argues “matter is unrelated to recent trading”, so why are results delayed?

'Fridays' (formerly TGI Fridays), '63rd+1st', and 'Fridays and Go' restaurants and bars company Hostmore (MORE) has issued an update that lending facilities discussions are “progressing well” and noting trading “in line with current market expectations” with “a further announcement confirming the new date of the preliminary results will be made in due course whilst an update on the group's amended banking facilities will also be provided as part of the preliminary results announcement”. What then of a share price currently to 13p?
VRS
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BREAKING: So how many patents does Versarien actually have? 130? What do you think?

Now that Neill Ricketts has been resigned as CEO of Versarien (VRS) the board and its PR advisors need to get to grips urgently with some of the outrageous claims made by the loathsome old barstool. For only when investors are told the ghastly truth can disgraced Nomad SP Angel consider allowing a bailout fund raise. And, as I pointed out in bearcast, a string of apologies are also needed to show that the culture has changed at Versarien and is no longer toxic. In terms of the truth, we might start with Ricketts’ claims about IP.
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Video: Recession and Higher Rates – The Mega-Risks in 2023

Analyst and investor David Hay recently released a new book “Bubble 3.0” which is a warning about the investment perils we all face but which most folks opt to ignore.
Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: TW is a total bastard

In today's Bearcast, I discuss Power Metal (POW), Versarien (VRS), including why Dianne Savory OBE should be publicly apologising to my wife today, Verditek (VDTK), Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG), Aferian (AFRN) and Argo Blockchain (ARB)
SHI
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I still like SIG plc shares (just don’t mention the need for a dividend)

Back in August last year, I wrote that “I remain a fan of SIG plc (SHI) (just improve the balance sheet a bit more, please!)”. Shares in the supplier of insulation, roofing, commercial interiors and specialist construction products are, despite a bit of current market volatility, still above the level of then (which is good), but do I still think both that they are cheap and that it would be very smart of the company to improve the balance sheet?

POW
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And another AIM sewer CEO walks the plank – Paul Johnson ramper in chief at Power Metal Resources is gone

The cleansing of the Augean stables that is the AIM sewer has seen loathsome Neill Ricketts fired, oops sorry resigned, today but there is another high profile ramper walking the plank, Paul Johnson of Power Metal Resources (POW). Johnson’s departure is buried at the bottom of a release about a “strategic business update”. Whatever…I smell bull.
VRS
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BREAKING: Ding Dong Ricketts has Gone – Versarien surely toast

There was no thanks offered up by his fellow board members for his tremendous services to Versarien (VRS). Just an acknowledgement that loathsome charlatan Neill Ricketts has resigned with immediate effect. Did he resign or was he resigned?
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The $1 billion AIM fraud, IQE & Atlantic Lithium merit lots of ouzo tonight as the teachers disgrace themselves

I start with the fecking stay at home in the face of sod all snow teachers, who are a disgrace as I explained HERE. Then it is onto Ben's Creek (BEN) as disgraced Peter Shea emerges from under a stone, then IQE (IQE) , Wandisco (WAND), Atlantic Lithium (ALL), BSF Enterprises (BSFA) and Hammerson (HMSO).
Crime-Scene
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Put your workers on a 4 day week on full pay and watch revenues rocket: pseudo capitalism it is so easy when your sales are pure fiction!

A pilot scheme where workers got full pay for doing just 4 days a week was recently hailed by those organising it as a triumph and among those wheeled out to boast of its success was David Richards MBE of Wandisco (WAND). claiming his company's sales had rocketed seven fold and productivity was up 25%. In fact...
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Xeros Technology – further XFilter licensing agreement, attempted ramptastic?

Stating that its “technologies revolutionise the way we make and clean our clothes, conserving water and preventing waste”, Xeros (XSG) “is pleased to announce the signing of a further licensing agreement for its XFilter filtration technology with a global component manufacturer”. What of the shares currently up 6.5% in response towards 5p?
Clown
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What an awful day at the office for Invesco, specialist investors in tech

We are always told by some folks that you should follow the professional fund managers as they know what they are doing and we private investors are just mugs, Today there have been two enormous blow ups in the tech space both of which we have warned about repeatedly. IQE (IQE) and Wandisco (WAND). Both have a big institutional backing as you can see below.
IQE
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IQE – another shocking warning, more ouzo justified in North Wales, but its cabbage water time in South Wales

For years supporters of IQE (IQE) such as thirsty Paul Scott and our own Malcolm Stacey argued that it was a tech play and this justified fancy doo-dah valuations. I argued that it was simply a manufacturer operating in a cyclical commodity space and a not very good one at that. Today comes another dire lack of profits warning which will be enough to turn the bulls to drink and is a good reason for this sober bear to enjoy a small ouzo tonight.
SMDS
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A volatile Thursday…and a chat again about DS Smith shares

Thursday is usually my busiest day of the week, but for both this week and next week it is most certainly going to be a Wednesday. I see the rumours and counter-rumours about next Wednesday’s UK budget and US Federal Reserve chat continue, hence the volatility in equity and bond markets today. We have all seen worse though, and clearly it remains an active investment world where it remains an advantage to have seen more than the “everything is awesome” backdrop of the 2010s. Anyhow, onto the third quarter corporate update from DS Smith (SMDS) today.
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