Shell's Big Buy-Back May Still Not Be Fully Reflected in the Current Share Price
Hello, Share Finders. The value of my holding in Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) & (RDSB) has increased by enough for me to consider top slicing profits. It’s never a good idea to hold more than 10% of your bundle in one company and that’s where I find myself today here...
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 11 June 2019, 09:11 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Mind the gap near the end the hot rumour is afterwards!
A recording glitch. The hot rumour is at 20 minutes, ignore the gap beforehand. Elsewhere, I look at Neil Woodford, Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT), Eve Group (EVE), Xeros (XSG), RM2 (RM2), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.), BlueJay (JAY), Thomas Cook (TCG) Agronomics (ANIC) and the sodomising of Mail on Sunday reader;s portfolios by prize shit Ben Harrington and at Avereso (ASO).
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 10 June 2019, 17:06 |
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Time Out Group – should have listened to us again, Neil Woodford you loser & forced seller!
A “Holding(s) in Company” announcement from Time Out Group (TMO) shows last week Woodford Investment Management reduced its holding from 16.06% to “less than 5%”. The shares then falling from just above 90p to just below, and a circa £120 million market cap…
- By Steve Moore |
- 10 June 2019, 15:59 |
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Diversified Gas & Oil: investor lunch, FRC update and chapter & verse on massive looming restatements & interims
I am delighted to say that my good friends at the Financial Reporting Council have acknowledged receipt of my dossier on Diversified Gas & Oil (DGOC) and are now looking at accounts which clearly need massive restatements. Meanwhile I see that the company is hosting a lunch for private investors on June 26 in London. Sadly I’m busy that day, as it is the day major renovations start at my Welsh hovel but if you want to attend email James Husband DGO@buchanan.uk.com . More pressing are the forthcoming interims….
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 10 June 2019, 15:32 |
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Woodford Patient Capital Trust – the most pathetic of statements, shares slide again
I see that the spin doctors for Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT) told their poodles in the deadwood press (the FT) to run a fake news article suggesting that vultures were circling looking to bid for the company and its assets. No-one, not even the PR cocksuckers at the Financial Times, believes that for a minute and the shares have slumped again today to 59p, despite, or perhaps in part because of, the weediest of statements from WPCT.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 10 June 2019, 14:48 |
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EXPLOSIVE: Has Hargreaves Lansdown been dumping Neil Woodford's Equity Income fund whilst telling clients to buy? Part 3 – the HL Multi-Manager UK Equity fund: guilty as charged?
In part one of this series I showed that the HL Multi-Manager Income and Growth fund had been dumping Woodford Equity Income fund since the end of January whilst HL was still recommending Woodford via its Wealth 50 list. Part two – the HL MM Equity and Bond fund was inconclusive, although I did show that its % allocation had fallen. In part three I look at the HL Multi-Manager UK Equity fund (HL MM UK Eq).
- By Nigel Somerville |
- 10 June 2019, 14:25 |
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Avanti Communications – “can look forward to a positive future”… other than some increased competition, falling capacity prices & debt issues etc!…
Avanti Communications (AVN) has announced results, with CEO Kyle Whitehill emphasising “we can look forward to a positive future. We have an enviable network of assets, demand in our coverage is growing and the actions taken in the last 12 months to re-focus the business and to bring in new commercial talent to the executive team should bring rewards in the near term”. The shares have responded… er, by remaining down at 1.625p…
- By Steve Moore |
- 10 June 2019, 14:21 |
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Has Hargreaves Lansdown been dumping Neil Woodford's Equity Income Fund whilst advising investors to buy? Part 2 – the Equity and Bond MM fund: jury out.
Yesterday I showed quite clearly that the Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.) Multi-Manager Income and growth fund has been dumping Neil Woodford’s sunken flagship Equity Income Fund whilst HL retained Woodford on its Wealth 50 list of recommended funds offered to its private investors. This was in terms of cash value, in terms of the % of the HL fund and in terms of the number of units in Woodford’s fund – yet all the while the HL fund had been increasing in size. Today I move on to the HL Multi-Manager Equity and Bond fund (HL MM E&B).
- By Nigel Somerville |
- 10 June 2019, 14:21 |
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The Corruption of the Deadwood Press: The Mail on Sunday, Jim Mellon and Agronomics
Agronomics (ANIC) is an AIM listed firm which knew full well on Friday that it was set to raise £4.5 million at 5p - as against a 5.5p mid. So here is what to do. Leak the story to the fraudsters fave journalist, Ben Harrington, who will give it an utterly misleading write-up in the Mail on Sunday in return for the "scoop." MoS readers fill their boots on Monday and the shares move higher - they are now 6.5p. So Harrington and the Fail on Sunday get another "scoop", the Spiv clients of broker Peterhouse get to flip the stock and thank Peterhouse which earns 5% to pay for the coke and hookers and the company is cashed up. The only folk who get screwed are readers of the Fail on Sunday who are buying shares on the basis of completely fake news.
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 10 June 2019, 10:33 |
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I don't like Monday's RNSs...
Obviously today's comedy regulatory news update came from Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT), but I will leave others to write on that piece of PR puffery... A couple of notches down on the regulatory news angst scale was the acknowledgement by recent dog Thomas Cook (TCG) that - as per weekend press comments - it is in takeover talks (with 18% shareholder Chinese conglomerate Fosun)…
- By Chris Bailey |
- 10 June 2019, 10:30 |
Tariffs - as American as Apple Pie
Billionaire Stan Druckenmiller said last week that he could see the Fed funds rate going to zero in the next 18 months if the economy softens and that he recently piled into Treasuries as the U.S. trade war with China escalated. “When the Trump tweet went out, I went from 93% invested to net flat, and bought a bunch of Treasuries,” Druckenmiller said Monday evening, referring to the May 5 tweet from President Donald Trump threatening an increase in tariffs on China...
- By David Scott |
- 10 June 2019, 10:21 |
Picking a Firm Which Blows Hot and Cold Isn't Usually Wise, but Supporting this UK Engineer Might Be
Hello, Share Crunchers. In line with my oft-quoted policy of favouring companies which do boring things - and so are often below the radar - I offer for your consideration IMI (IMI). This Birmingham engineer is described as a ‘flow control specialist’...
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 10 June 2019, 09:22 |
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EXPLOSIVE: Has Hargreaves Lansdown been telling investors to buy Neil Woodford’s Equity Income Fund when it was selling?
I said the debacle involving the gating of Neil Woodford’s Equity Income Fund was going to get messy and it gives me no pleasure at all to write this article because I am myself a client of Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.). But the question has to be asked: has Hargreaves been selling Woodford’s Equity Income Fund whilst at the same time advising clients to buy it.
- By Nigel Somerville |
- 9 June 2019, 18:15 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast; That knob Bryce Elder at the FT plus the Hargreaves Neil Woodford scandal is about to explode
I start with Bryce Elder at the FT. What a knob. Then it is onto new explosive revelations about Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.) was selling Woodford funds for months while urging its retail clients to buy.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 9 June 2019, 15:58 |
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Appoint Geddes at Kingfisher to break the company up
I know that I have been (an incorrect) fanboy of Kingfisher (KGF) for the last year or so when the shares have hardly covered themselves in glory but I still see an opportunity prospectively here to make money. As I noted back in March 'look at the cash flow and hope that finally the Chairman (Andy Cosslett) is getting it. Ditching the CEO is just stage one', I read in today's deadwood press that 'the former head of Direct Line is in early talks with B&Q owner Kingfisher about taking over as chief executive'.
- By Chris Bailey of Financial Orbit |
- 9 June 2019, 11:02 |
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Who exposed Neil Woodford - laughable fake news from the Sunday Times cocksuckers
The first article where we warned about Neil Woodford was in 2015. By 2017 our coverage was detailed and on an industrial scale taking aparty every aspect of the Woodford empire. As Bloomberg stated yesterday, we at ShareProphets, were first. The deadwood press, including the Sunday Times just blew the great man off. But today we learn , as you can see below, that it was a Sunday Times investigation on March 3 2019 that FIRST exposed what was going on. FAKE NEWS!!!!
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 9 June 2019, 11:00 |
Sunday Long Reads: Forecasting D-Day, Google's collapse, Record Industry profits, Lizard People, Cryptocurrency feudalism
Is there anything better than sitting back and reading a well-written article on a lazy Sunday? Every week ShareProphets features some long form journalism that you'll find of interest. Grab your cuppa and enjoy these five articles.
- By Darren Atwater |
- 9 June 2019, 10:59 |
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Neil Woodford – what of the regulatory response?
With Neil Woodford’s fall from grace following the gating of his equity income fund – which came as no surprise to readers of ShareProphets following our intensive coverage of the last two years. Actually, our first piece discussing Woodford’s woes was way back on 14 April 2015. Take that, the Sunday Times, which is claiming credit for bringing down Neil Woodford because of a piece in March of this year. But now, already, there are calls for changes to the regulatory environment - new rules, new hoops to jump through to prevent this happening all over again.
- By Nigel Somerville |
- 9 June 2019, 10:26 |
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Yourgene – Adam Reynolds buys 900,000 shares at 11p, chat with the great man
Reynolds now owns 6.35 million shares in Yourgene (YGEN), 1.1% of the equity and though not a dominant portion of his net assets, still a material amount. So why did he buy? I chatted it through with him and his simple answer is “because the shares are cheap and I could.”
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 9 June 2019, 10:26 |
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Woodford Income Focus – the noose is tightening: sell while you still can – and where is the FCA?
I have warned in the strongest terms that Neil Woodford’s Income Focus fund (IFF) will be gated and repeat that warning today. Last weekend I warned that the noose was tightening over EIF (call me Mystic Meg) and today I give the same advice on IFF. In the light of the suspension of Woodford’s flagship Equity Income fund (EIF) on Monday, I warned that the rush to the exit at IFF would be extreme and this morning’s figures bear that out with bells on.
- By Nigel Somerville |
- 9 June 2019, 10:24 |