Today’s scoop on MyHealthChecked (MHC) has moved the shares and looks like great news. But it might not be. What I have engaged in is not as one moron on ADVFN suggests “willy waving” or “ramping” but good journalism, that is to say breaking news someone does not want published. MyHealthChecked has broken AIM Rules and so created a disorderly market and though I own shed loads of shares, I must be consistent and report the company. AIM Regulation should be slapping someone’s wrists. I also comment on Helium One (HE1) and Verditek (VDTK).

Has toxic David Sefton pulled off a £1 million heist at Iconic (ICON) which will see investors utterly screwed? After an RNS yesterday, I fear the worst.

Nearly seven months ago I observed that you should ‘always believe in gold…but stick with Barrick (GOLD) and Polymetal (POLY) and not Yamana (AUY)’ HERE. Most gold stocks are down year-to-date – after an excitable previous couple of years – and these three stocks have been no different. So what do I make of Polymetal now after it published its first half numbers today?

This is massive. Lloyds has 1400 stores across the UK. And as you can see HERE, it is now selling the MyHealthChecked (MHC) covid test. Boots is selling the test from more than 500 stores and that deal plus sales from MyHealthChecked’s own portal managed to drive sales of c£3 million in May and June alone. So gaining this additional distribution (plus that from partnering with EasyJet) is surely highly material. Why no RNS? 

It is only two weeks since Crowd For Angels, the world’s worst crowdfunding firm, closed its failed attempt to raise £500,000 for the serial liars at Verditek (VDTK) and now we get interims which tell you that, by Christmas, those fools lured by Richard “Gollum” Gill’s grotesquely misleading financial promotions into backing the bond will be at risk. These numbers are a disaster for the company led by Tory toff Lord Willetts. Insolvency beckons.

When I last looked at the ongoing shenanigans at AIM-listed Block Energy (BLOE), the rebels had lost their first attempt to get their own way at the requisitioned EGM failed to support their attempts to remove Block Energy’s Chairman. As the second requisitioned EGM approached (next Wednesday), the rebels, whose behaviour in light of their track record is questionable as I revealed here, attempted to move the goalposts by offering to pay for the requisitioned forensic investigation into the company’s affairs. Now the sitting board had come out fighting: grab your beer and popcorn, and read on…..

Hello, Share Chasers. There may be glittering prizes around for some folks holding some shares. I refer to the craze among foreign private equity outfits for eyeing up British companies, some of which are household names. A reasonable stratagem then is to buy shares in likely targets. But what are the best bets?

Tracsis (TRCS) states that it is “pleased to provide” a trading update for its year ended 31st July 2021, and it includes “a strong end of year recovery” and “anticipate further recovery in activity levels through Q1 of FY 21/22, supported by the recently announced Government-backed insurance scheme for the live events sector”. So why are the shares currently slightly lower in response, at 1020p?…

In today’s bearcast, I look at those failures in detail: Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT), Tirupati (TGR) where you might brace yourself for some language some may deem sexist and not very 2021, and Supply@ME Capital (SYME) where today’s extraordinary news really should alarm any holder. I also revisit Argo Blockchain (ARB) which has published its US listing prospectus HERE which I comment on. En passant, I look at share trading patterns in Versarien (VRS) and Chill Brands (CHLL) and what they tell us about sentiment in what were last year’s Bulletin Board darlings. They are just so 2020 aren’t they?

Previously writing on enterprise innovation management technology and services company Sopheon (SPE), in June with the shares at 925p I concluded that with all the change, following “review”, and the current valuation, I’ll continue to monitor but on the shares currently continue to avoid. They last closed at 880p but are currently above the June price on the back of half-year results. So, what’s the story?…

Ernst & Young screwed up when auditing the accounts for the year to April 29 2017 for Stagecoach (SGC). Nobody denies it and more than four years later the Financial Reporting Council has finally got around to a bit of gentle wrist slapping for those responsible.

Dominic White stepped down as chairman of the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) on July 22 but is still involved in the company and the way CEO Alessandro Zamboni is dumping all the shares he controls. Today, White’s Aquis listed company Eight Capital Partners (ECP) has put out a release which is all about Supply shares but, for some reason, fails to name the company once. Suspicious? You bet.

MyHealthChecked (MHC) has welcomed a UK government announcement that COVID-19 testing companies will be removed from the approved list if they advertise misleading prices, emphasising that it provides “clear, transparent and market competitive pricing… also ensures a high standard of service and robust laboratory capacity planning methods to ensure customer needs are met”.

Previously writing on data science-specialising marketing and consulting company Jaywing (JWNG), last month with the shares at 10.5p I suggested previous results didn’t provide confidence of secure foundations being in place and ahead of updated financials news I avoided. What then now of results for its year ended 31st March 2021, with the shares currently at 12.75p?…

Sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL), which rushed its way onto the Standard List  only in June as Imperial X (IMPP) before it had even managed to change its name amid a forest of Red Flags, has announced an industrial trough-load of options for directors, PMDRs and other staff. Its nice to be valued, but what about the shareholders?

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern plc (TERN) has announced that its one listed investee (on the tin-pot Nasdaq First North market in Stockholm) Wyld Networks AB (WYLD) has raised SEK 12 million (approx. £1 million) in the form of a loan from Formue Nord Fokus A/S. That’s all very well, but…..

Hello, Share Crunchers. With the battle for Morrisons (MRW) still going on, one is tempted to look at the other big British supermarkets to see if they too will become targets. There’s been some speculation about Sainsbury’s (SBRY). One possible buyer has even been named: US buy-out outfit Apollo.

Writing on TP Group (TPG) yesterday I concluded that ‘the latest suggests interest from Science Group (SAG) still at 6.5p+ and, though there is still clear risk with the current TP Group board stance and the other shareholdings, the Science Group track record and a current 6.1p offer price suggest the shares here could be worth a small speculative buy. Oh, and still how about updating that ‘our shareholders’ website too?!’. Science Group has today made a further statement.

I am not in the slightest bit apologetic. In fact I think she is rather pathetic and she deserved exposing for raising money on a false prospectus. But I am the pantomime villain of the Holt facebook page yet again today as I explain HERE. I then discuss Roquefort Investments (ROQ) a proposterous Standard Listed shell, Kefi (KEFI), Chill Brands (CHLL), and Nanosynth (NNN)

The writers on this website have warned folks that Prospex Energy (PXEN) is a dog with fleas so I hope that none of our readers are invested in it. But for those who are unlucky and unwise enough to own the shares (because, as ever, they always know better than those tossers at ShareProphets), there is now an unenviable choice of management.