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The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #232

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

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Visual Aid: The Top Performing Investment Themes of 2023

In many ways, the year was defined by breakthrough announcements in AI and the resurgence of Bitcoin. At the same time, investors looked to nuclear energy ETFs thanks to nuclear’s growing role as a low carbon energy source and the war in Ukraine.

Professor
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Sunday Long Reads: Forcasting the Future, ISIS Open Air Prison, Roger Federer, Hustling People, Second Hand Clothes

Sunday is a good time to sit back, read, and forget about shares. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don't you?

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Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending 16 March

Here are the most read articles and the most listened-to Bearcasts over the past seven days. The most read non-Quiz, non-Tom article last week is Nigel Somerville with Tern – Is Another Shoe About To Drop At Wyld As Investors Await Dire Results And Yet Another Cash Crisis? at No 6 or No 14 including Bearcasts. 

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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the most read non read article here is by revolting workers & does Graham Cooley alter the Cap-XX question

I start with two sporting matters, rugby and yesterday's Varsity match. One a great source of joy and one very much the reverse. Then it is onto NightCap (NGHT) and Cap-XX (CPX).
MACF
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Macfarlane – acquisition to further build protective packaging business, BUY

Packaging design, manufacturing and distribution group Macfarlane (MACF) has announced the acquisition of Allpack Packaging Supplies Limited, emphasising “this earnings-enhancing acquisition further progresses Macfarlane's strategy to build its protective packaging business”. Further good news from a current 131.5p share price?
NXQ
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Nexteq – 2023 “materially improved profitability and cash generation”, but take profits on another winning share tip?

Industrial technology provider Nexteq (NXQ) has announced results for the 2023 calendar year emphasising “materially improved profitability and cash generation through focus on higher margin products” and “dividend of 3.3p per share proposed (2022: 3.0p per share) reflecting confidence in growth and strong cash generation”. What’s the financial detail from a current 153.5p share price?
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She Sells Shoes at Shoe Zone and the Profits Keep Running Along. (Try Saying the First 6 Words Aloud Twice)

Hello Share Pals. Latest official info shows that shopping in the high street is picking up. And that’s despite the soggy weather we’ve been having. One store that seems to offer good value for shareholders is Shoe Zone (SHOE).


  • 16 March 2024, 09:01 |
VOD
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Vodafone – “Sale of Vodafone Italy and capital return”… and a halved future dividend!

“Sale of Vodafone Italy and capital return”-titled announcement from Vodafone Group (VOD) today, which describes this as “the final step of the portfolio right-sizing announced in May 2023”, and what about the shares currently over 6.5% higher in response?
HZM
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As per normal, Horizonte’s bad news is saved for nobody is watching O’Clock

When, not if, Horizonte (HZM) shareholders are finally wiped out I bet that the good news is saved until after the market is closed. That is its wont. And thus at 4.40 PM yesterday after most folks had switched off their screens, the company served up another piece of bad news.
WSBN
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Richard Poulden: how can you make these claims?

Getting a kick out of financial masochism I am still a shareholder not only in Red Rock Resources (RRR) but also in Richard Poulden’s Wishbone Gold (WSBN). I expect nothing but further pain from both. Whack. Whack. Mistress Red Rock beats me again. Today it is the turn of Domanatrix Wishbone to have a go with a drilling release about its Cottesloe project in the land of High Culture, where two thirds of the population are not descended from convicts.
BIOM
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Biome Technologies – “Contract win for Stanelco RF Division”. Er, how tight is the balance sheet position though?

Describing itself as “a leading bioplastics and radio frequency technology business”, Biome Technologies (BIOM) has issued an announcement today commencing that it “is pleased to announce that its RF Technologies division has been awarded a further contract win” and including that “this important order results from the division's ongoing strategy of diversification beyond its traditional strength into new high-value medical market areas”. How “important” does the order look from the valuation from a current 107.5p share price?
Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Come on you 'tabs

This is recorded early as I am off to Cambridge for the Ladies Varsity Football match to cheer on daughter 2. When Darren uploads this is a different matter. I discuss liquidity and a small cap rerate, the laudable career of Michael Carvill at Kenmare (KMR), Chill Brands (CHLL), Zephyr Energy (ZPHR) and, in detail, the shenanigans at Alien Metals (UFO).
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The curse of Roby Zomer strikes again – the man with the reverse Midas touch

The downfall of MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC) has been well documented on this website since I published a detailed dossier 18 months ago when it was valued at £70million. Those who backed its founder Roby Zomer rather than my analysis have lost 99% of their moolah. But MGC looks like a great British success compared to Zomer’s other effort, Graft Polymer (GPL), floated at 21.5p less than two years ago, its shares are just 0.16p after another disaster today.
IQE
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Thank the wretched Mail on Sunday for giving you an IQE short entry point

The market did not really care that Richard Griffiths had increased his stake in IQE (IQE) to 7.6% on Friday. The shares were marked down a tad. Griffiths is a smart operator, but like all of us he is not infallible. But the Mail on Sunday bigged this up at the weekend.
MAX
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Boardroom merry go round at MaxRets Ventures more red flags vicar?

I have already highlighted the appalling financials at MaxRets Ventures (MAX) one part of the empire of worthless companies or outright frauds created by the Dominic White/Carrado Coen/Allesandro Zamboni gang. Now vicar it is time for some boardroom red flags hoisted today.
MTL
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Metals Exploration – recent very strong share price performance, bank more than 95% gains?

We most recently wrote on gold producer from the Philippines Metals Exploration (MTL) towards the end of January, noting with the shares at a 2.8p offer price, approx. $75 million market cap, that the more than $10 million net debt reduction for even the latest quarter and the $19.9 million remaining net debt suggested value and a 4p+ near-term share price quite possible here.
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Brilliant new Dominic Frisby video "Let's Synergise" for anyone who has ever endured Corporate Life

If you have ever worked as a corporate dude in the era before WFH you will love the latest video from my pal Dominic Frisby, out just last night. Let's Synergise. It is superb.
  • 15 March 2024, 08:25 |
SMRT
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SmartSpace Software – recommended offer, a deal it should be “pleased to announce”?

SmartSpace Software (SMRT) is “pleased to announce” that it has agreed a cash offer for 90p per share from Florida-headquartered ‘workplace enablement’ software and analytics company Sign In Solutions Inc., stating that it “believes that the cash offer would provide SmartSpace shareholders with an immediate realisation of this future value potential in cash at an attractive premium to the undisturbed share price”. How “attractive” does the recommended offer look?
Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: screwed by Trainline

In today's podcast I discuss Trainline (TRN), Versarien (VRS), Optibiotix (OPTI), Red Rock Resources (RRR) and its Aussie shitshow, ECR Minerals (ECR) and Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX)
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