Articles by: STEVE MOORE
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Gold share pick and price (as a tiebreaker) reader contest (maybe a prize one) – end-Q1 2025 update
Early this year as gold burst through $2,800 per ounce to hit, at that time, a high again, Tom Winnifrith launched a gold share pick and price (as a tiebreaker) reader contest, for which there may be a small prize, HERE. And the standings at the end of the first quarter of 2025, and with gold having reached above $3,100 per ounce, are...
- By Steve Moore
- 2025-04-02 07:00:35
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Corero Network Security – 2024 results emphasise a swing to profit, but is there really?…
Describing itself as “a leading provider of DDoS protection solutions”, Corero Network Security (CNS) has announced its results for the 2024 calendar year including emphasising “solid topline growth and continued ARR momentum… Revenue increased by 10% to $24.6 million… Profit before taxation of $0.6 million (2023: loss $0.2 million)… Solid start to FY 2025, delivering customer wins across the globe, contract expansion with alliance partner Juniper Networks”. So what about a current more than 4% lower share price response to 16p?
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Strip Tinning – “trading materially ahead of expectations”, but it is what the “expectations” were which determines how much of an achievement that is. And…
Most recently writing on company describing itself as “a leading supplier of specialist connection systems to the automotive sector” Strip Tinning Holdings (STG), in December with the shares up towards 40p I concluded to avoid with forecast further losses even on the favourable-compared-to-the-bottom-line metric of adjusted EBITDA and with also its already financial position. The shares most recently closed at below 20p but what about them currently back up to 38.5p on a “Trading and Business Update” announcement?
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ShareProphets readers tips for 2025 prize competition – end-March update
Having asked for readers tips for 2025 for the prize of 1/4 litre of Tom Winnifrith’s Greek Hovel olive oil (2025 harvest) HERE, the following is the end-March monthly update (to be eligible needed to have selected, on a once per username basis, one Buy and one Sell pick from the London Stock Exchange Main Market or AIM casino and they not then having had a shares suspension/cancellation announcement). And leading at the end of the first quarter is...
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Aston Martin Lagonda – prospective further fundraising, for “exquisitely addictive performance cars” or exquisitely addictive further cash burn?
I most recently warned on exquisitely addictive cash burner (Oops, I mean “ultra-luxury British brand, creating the most exquisitely addictive performance cars”)!, Aston Martin Lagonda (AML), just last month, with the shares then falling towards 100p, with I concluding to not have much confidence in the argued “expected” outlook improvement. Now Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll emphasises that a “proposed investment further underscores my conviction in this extraordinary brand, and commitment to ensuring Aston Martin has the strongest possible platform for creating long-term value while reducing equity dilution via this premium subscription, which should greatly reassure shareholders”. The shares have responded up in response, but what about that to currently still just around 70p?!
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MindGym – argues a “significant improvement in profitability”, but how “significant” really?…
Describing itself as a “global provider of human capital and business improvement solutions”, Mind Gym (MIND) has issued a “trading update” emphasising “a resilient performance in FY25 with significant improvement in profitability” and including that it “is expected to remain profitable in FY26”. However, previously on the company, in December, I wrote interims including “the business has returned to profitability”. Er, no it hasn’t!, so what about a current 22.5p share price?
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Seeing Machines – “Director/PDMR Shareholding” acquisition, meaningful confidence or attempted ramptastic?…
Describing itself as an “advanced computer vision technology company that designs AI-powered operator monitoring systems to improve transport safety”, Seeing Machines (SEE) has announced that CFO Martin Ive has purchased 568,000 shares and that “following these purchases, Mr Ive is now beneficially interested in 10,925,726 ordinary shares”. Good news then?
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GCM Resources – placing (discounted, natch) and the proceeds for “working capital” purposes hey?…
GCM Resources (GCM) has announced that it has conditionally raised approximately £1 million via a placing at 3p per new share, with the announcement “Highlights” including that “the net proceeds from the placing are intended to be used by the company for working capital purposes”. Really?- By Steve Moore
- 2025-03-28 14:45:55
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CML Microsystems – I having previously stated it’s likely profit warning ahoy, today an intra-day “Trading Update”…
Most recently writing on semiconductors developer CML Microsystems (CML), in November with the shares down towards 230p I concluded that, at least in the next months, it was highly likely the-then trading environment would persist and that it was, therefore, likely profit warning ahoy on expectations that the company seemingly dare not detail – house broker Shore Capital’s more than £2 million adjusted pre-tax profit for the full-year and, as such, to still avoid. The shares most recently closed at 226p, and what of them currently falling to around 210p on the back of a 12:42pm (er, why?) “Trading Update”?
