Yesterday I wrote about Jupiter Fund Management (JUP) and its disclosure that it was going to crack on with its deal to buy / merge with sector peer Merian. Naturally there was one - mildly unsaid - assumption underpinning my musing that 'a fund manager in a market crisis should merge' and that is that inherently you are buying solid and reasonable assets...

We're inviting you to send pictures in of what you see out of your window and/or of your new workspace. Just email them to editorial@shareprophets.com . Today, we're looking at the view of Chris in Cheshire

I previously wrote on recruitment software group Dillistone (DSG) in February when it updated including that it expects a 2019 adjusted pre-tax loss “of £0.30m (2018: profit £0.02m)… is confident that it will deliver a pre-tax profit prior to exceptional items in both H1 and H2 of 2020”. Now a “COVID-19 and Results Date Update”...

After last week’s jam-tomorrow ramparoonie, today AIM-listed Haydale (HAYD) offered up a calamitous profit warning. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…..

One of the better performing U.K. stocks in my portfolio since the start of the elevated market volatility has unsurprisingly been PZ Cussons (PZC). Naturally, I looked towards a range of its Carex and Imperial Leather products to supplement the health and hygiene resilience of my own household…and more often than not my local supermarket was sold out. The company reflects this unsurprising reality today with an observation in its trading update statement that it experienced 'exceptionally high demand' for such products. However, this was not a complete home run...

AIM-listed URU Metals (URU) has announced an update on its mining right application as announced on 11 December 2019. Except it was first announced not in December just gone but at least as far back as May last year. Still, never let the truth get in the way of a good story with which to ramp the shares. We are told that...

Hello Share Trundlers. There are some shares out there which defy the current difficult mode. One such is household goods maker and seller, Creightons (CRL). I’ve commended this one to you many times and today it maintains a share price that is not that far below its all-time high...

Brick model events and shows group Live Company (LVCG) has updated including “first quarter revenues on target… is pleased to confirm that no events have been cancelled” and financial manoeuvrings including “to show his support for the company during these unprecedented times, David Ciclitira, the company's Chairman, has provide a secured term loan of £500,000 (less fees and expenses)… on standard commercial terms”. The shares have currently responded though to below 14p – more than 15% lower…

Listeners, I have screwed up on social distancing. at least where my new orchard is concerned. I start with this pressing matter HERE. Then I discuss how I am bracing myself for flak for my latest coronavirus podcast on how the GroupThink mob get their maths all wrong regarding the NHS HERE. Then to matters financial: the markets and economic recovery, Eurasia Mining (EUA), Novacyt (NCYT), Telit (TCM),  Remote Monitoring Systems (RMS) and Castleton (CTP) 

Following my small top-slice call yesterday, AIM-listed gold producer in Turkey Ariana (AAU) duly served up news this morning. Oh no, I thought, had I jumped the gun too quickly and it had announced the proposed corporate action was proceeding? No: it was Q1 production umbers. Phew! My screen showed a 10% drop in the share price too – obviously the market didn’t like the numbers. But on reflection……

Current market conditions are bad for many companies, with the oil and gas sector having been hit particularly hard as commodity prices have crashed, but this can create opportunities for some companies.

Manufacturer of computing, power and communications products and value added distributor of electronic components, Solid State (SOLI) previously featured on this website in February with it concluded finnCap looking for full-year adjusted earnings per share of 41.5p, rising to 43.6p next year… suggest a now forward circa 15x earnings multiple for such growth. There remains potential to outperform forecasts, but also, as always, risks – and these with the shares up from sub 400p as recently as August. As such, the above together now see us opt to play it safe here and bank a 30%+, less than four months gain. Sell. Now a “Trading Update & COVID-19 Update”…

I have I guest in this week's show which is sponsored by Open Orphan PLC (ORPH) and it is the company's chairman Cathal Friel. I think I gave him a hard time on certain matters but I came away a very happy shareholder. I discuss Coronavirus and the market crash and why I would now be a selective buyer of blue chips right now. But i accept facts have changed and in that light I also cover 11 stocks which could well be zeros and I explain why. If you like this podcast and can't wait seven days for more of the same and are tired of being a cheapskate you should listen to my Bearcast and enjoy our cracking writen exposes and analysis every day HERE.

For another time are some of the stories I have seen in almost a quarter of century kicking around the professional investment management arena. However, any company in the sector knows it is double geared to the market cycle – after all most remuneration comes from clipping a management fee off a portfolio and naturally inflows are far, far easier to attract in when markets are hot… and at the moment the average stock market around the world is still down a double-digit percentage year-to-date...

Jordan Roy-Byrne is, as you know, the only Technical Analyst with an IQ into three digit territory and as such we do listen to his words. In his latest video update for Palisade Capital on gold and precioyus metals, he sees every reason to be ever more bullish. This is for Nigel Somerville. Enjoy. 

Just before the long Easter weekend, Eurasia Mining (EUA), shares in which have now been suspended for more than two months, issued a partial ‘fess up. As I flagged up almost two months ago, Nomad WH Ireland has indeed resigned but why?

What are shares in Sound Energy (SOU) trading at today? 1p, 2p? I reckon this drowning in debt POS is worthless but only time will tell. It was not that long ago that shares in Sound traded at 90p. Not one institution bought as the stock headed to a £700 million market cap driven by obscene share ramping by the then CEO James Parsons, aided by some of the less scrupulous characters on the AIM scene...

We're inviting you to send pictures in of what you see out of your window and/or of your new workspace. Just email them to editorial@shareprophets.com . Today, we're looking at the view of David in Coldingham, East Berwickshire, Scotland.

Hello, Share Scudders. It’s worth an update on a successful recent tip on this venerable website. I refer to Avacta Group (AVCT). The share was well below 20p earlier this year. It’s up as I write to above 60p and in my humble opinion could have further to go...

Aim-listed gold producer in Turkey Ariana (AAU) has been on fire ever since my strong buy call at 1.95p. The stock is now 3.5p to sell – a stonking gain in less than four weeks for a supposedly AIM minnow, now putting the stock on a market cap. of around £38 million.