With its former CEO clearly guilty of insider dealing, with its balance sheet trainwrecked by, as yet unquantified, mis-selling, Morses Club (MCL) has announced that it is leaving the AIM sewer. Why, surely its CV makes it just the sort of company that Marcus Stuttard, the bogus Sheriff of AIM, wants to attract?
On 3rd March Morses Club (MCL) issued a trading update including that having “announced that it expected adjusted profit before tax for FY22 to be between 20% and 30% below the prevailing analyst consensus of £7.5m due to the impact of the recent increase in claims, subject to year-end audit review… complaints continue at the same levels as we reported, and our guidance remains unchanged”. Now an “Update on Claims Volumes and FY22 Results” announcement...
Today Morses Club (MCL) served up a horrible profits warning and announced that its CEO Paul Smith was leaving with immediate effect. The shares have crashed by 26p to just 15.95p. But last last week one lucky trader dumped 464,119 shares at 42.65p almost his entire holding. That lucky trader was Paul Smith. If this is not insider dealing I am a banana. Here is the timeline and why the FCA MUST feel Smith’s collar asap.
