UK 18:23 Monday, 21 September 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
We write after recently banking an approaching 32% bid price to offer price gain on another company takeover approach. The company we now replace that with in the portfolio has already had takeover interest into early this year and its recently announced half-year results highlight why and suggest the shares are a Buy.
That is the choice I face as we start the process of choosing a secondary school for my son. After pondering that I look at Amaroq (AMRQ), Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Eco Buildings (ECOB) and Hamak Strategy (HAMA)
Describing itself as “the world’s leading supplier of premium, high-performance and sustainable wood building materials”, Accsys Technologies (AXS) has issued a “Trading Update” including that it “expects full year underlying EBITDA (excluding the JV) to be broadly in line with market expectations… demonstrating margin improvement” and what about a current share price response to 63p, 12% lower?
Last week the new board at Union Jack Oil (UJO) fired off a circular explaining why the takeover by Reabold Resources (RBD)recommended by the old board should be rejected. Today Reabold has fired back. I very much doubt anyone will be swayed by either document, the whole exercise just racks up more PR fluffy and professional fees. It’s more cash for the City to splash on nose candy, less for either company to spend on oil exploration. To be fair to Reabold’s evil PR genius Billy Clegg…
Asset Manager Michael Gentile maintains a strongly bullish long-term outlook on gold, viewing the recent price consolidation from its highs as a normal pullback within a broader bull market.
Describing itself as “a leader in healthcare financial performance solutions”, Craneware (CRW) has announced results for its year ended 30th June 2026 including “adjusted basic EPS of 116.8 cents (FY25: 116.1 cents)… the immediate impact of the cyber security incident has been contained”. So what about a current share price response towards 1000p, more than 20% lower?
Today Mothercare (MTC) has won the lottery. But £800,000 is not enough and it still reminds investors that it is screwed. Its shares are worthless yet folks hang on for three different but equally spurious reasons.
Natch, folks are panicking after seven armed rebel groups in Ethiopia announced last night that they were forming an alliance to seize power. Before you also panic about the self styled “Alliance for Survival”
From Atlas Shrugged written in 1957. Tell me this is not the UK today.
Paul Mathieson of Amazing AI has spent a lot of time and effort try to avoid accountability for his activities and in particular explaining what happened to the more than £1 million it raised on 11 September 2025.
It is back to Optibiotix (OPTI) and Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX)
The most read non-Tom article this week is The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As $4,400 Gives Way For Gold by Nigel Somerville at number 19, or number 26 with Bearcasts.
Gold closed the week at $4,377 – up from last week’s $4,348 despite the Fed hiking interest rates by 0.25%. Gold stocks also rose – rather more firmly than the yellow metal – as can be seen on the chart below (courtesy, as ever, of ADVFN) of Gold against its mining ETFs GDX, GDXJ and GOEX. So what to make of that?
It’s the ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz. There are no prizes! And no Googling!
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?
