UK 19:20 Saturday, 3 October 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
Well for starters he should be shitting bricks if reports I hear about the SFO being asked to look into the supposed China MOU’s/Innovate UK Loan prove correct.
As I mentioned in yesterday's bearcast I am not so sure I feel that much warmth for those ex Versarien (VRS) staffers now lining up to expose various untruths and worse from the time when Neill Ricketts was in charge. When Ricketts was egging on demented shareholders to pile on against me or, worse, my wife these folks were happy to do nothing and bank their pay cheques. But better late than never and we do now have a common objective.
The breaking news today is that Neill Ricketts, the man who must take the credit for Versarien (VRS) shares plunging from 200p at peak ramp to just 0.15p today has filed a series of legal claims against the company demanding even more money. Words almost fail me.
Just over five years ago the shares were 182.5p. Today they are struggling to hold 0.09p. You must forgive my schadenfreude as this company’s biggest critic but its shareholders, egged on by repellent founder Neill Ricketts, trolled me – as did Neil himself – on twitter, discussed having me killed in chatrooms and also plotted to get my wife sacked by her University. So I delight in how such folks have lost a fortune. You may remember how one such poltroon produced cartoons mocking and lambasting myself and also Lucian Miers. As a reminder, here is one gem. It has not aged well.
Versarien (VRS) should be demanding a refund from the expensive turnaround specialists” brought in last March: since then the shares have collapsed from 2.5p to just 0.09p as today, as almost exactly predicted in bearcast yesterday, call me mystic fecking Meg, a placing has been announced at just 0.08p. and if you think this is bad, wait for the next placing which will not be long.
Today’s dire trading update from Versarien (VRS) has managed to hammer the share price down a further 50%. The shares are now. At 0.15p, down by more than 99.9% in just five years. More ouzo for the Sheriff of AIM for hundreds of exposes penned in the face of death threats, harassment of my wife and industrial trolling and who has called this superbly. But let’s start with the good news for the morons who ignored me.
To that poltroon who said that I called Versarien (VRS) brilliantly in the era of disgraced Neill Ricketts but had not appreciated the ”turnaround strategy” I say “feck you, yet again it is ouzo on cornflakes time at Sheriff Towers”. Today, as predicted, comes the latest bailout placing raising a paltry £454,822, before expenses at a price of 0.275 pence per share. The net proceeds will be, I predict, little over £400,000 and will all be gone by St Valentine's Day.
In today’s general meeting statement from Versarien (VRS) the clear implication is that a bailout and hugely discounted placing is imminent. This will destroy the share price as I explained HERE. Bulls hope that disposals will save a company drowning in £8 million of debt. Here is why they are wrong.
Today’s GM at Versarien (VRS) will no doubt pass resolutions allowing for the issue of a blizzard of confetti and a share consolidation. The alternative is insolvency before Christmas. In a verbose statement which shamed chairperson Dianne Savory will read out. It is what the woman who seems relaxed about other women being targeted and harassed, does not say which is a killer.
Some chump who is a long term bull of Versarien (VRS) recently wrote that while I might just have called this stock right in the era of Neill Ricketts the jury was out as to whether I was right being bearish about the new regime. Since then, in just a couple of weeks, the shares have halved to just 0.5p to sell. And it has to get worse for on October 30th a GM will approve a capital reorganisation reducing par from 1p to 0.1p and, as the company is running on vapours, this will prompt yet another bailout placing PDQ.
As I predicted it would, Versarien (VRS) has today called a GM to approve a capital re-organization which will see the par value of its shares slashed from1p to 0.1p. This is a precursor to yet another bailout placing at far closer to 0p than to 1p.
I appear to have overlooked the fact that par value for shares in Versarien (VRS) is 1p. That means that new shares cannot be issued at below that whatever the company says about being able to issue equity. As of today, after the most recent dismal warning the bid is…1p. Clearly any placing would have to be at a massive discount so what gives?
After today’s trading statement from Versarien (VRS) even Stevie Wonder can now see the writing on the wall and the only thing that can stop the Fat Lady taking a train to Cheltenham is more industrial action by the RMT and the incompetent poltroons at Avanti West Coast also picking up the Paddington GWR franchise.
