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Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending 3 August

By Darren Atwater | Sunday 4 August 2024


 


Here are the most read articles and the most listened-to Bearcasts over the past seven days. The most read non-Tom article last week is by Steve Moore, with Quartix Technologies – interims, argues full-year “believes… will moderately exceed market expectations”. Er, what about the prior expectations though?! at No 4 or No 12 including Bearcasts. 

The most-read ShareProphets articles this week were:

  1. BREAKING: Skinbiotherapeutics placing: Ashman’s the name, pumping & dilution’s the game
    The trading statement earlier this week insisted that Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) had cash until Q1 2025,but that revenues from Croda would flow before Christmas and would add to that and that it had a standby debt facility of £500,000 in place and that it could do a debt funded acquisition that would generate cash from day 1. So, there was no need for a placing. That was just the talk of scaremongering motherfuckers like yours truly.

  2. Has Labour killed the North Sea Oil Industry, inadvertently created yet another balance sheet back hole and sounded the death knell for a raft of UK PLCs?
    I know that we AIM groupies like oil stocks. They are often headed up by colourful and charismatic fellows and they offer the lure of massive gains. Usually they deliver massive losses but we can all dream. But, among the wider population, oil companies are perceived as evil capitalists who always coin it in while destroying the planet and thus taxing such companies even if it drives them away from Britain is always a vote winner.
    In that vein, having created a budget black hole with her windfall pay rises for public sector workers, new chancellor Rachel Reeves started her assault on the industry yesterday.

  3. UPDATED: Skinbiotherapeutics trading update, I almost agree with Cavendish note (below), but cash worries me
    I cannot really fault the trading update from Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) today covering the year to June 30 2024in terms of the detail given. The only worry is the low cash position but there are plenty of positives. The note from house broker Cavendish is entirely reasonable and, with a following wind, its 48p price target might be very lame indeed. But…

  4. Quartix Technologies – interims, argues full-year “believes… will moderately exceed market expectations”. Er, what about the prior expectations though?!
    Describing itself as “a leading supplier of subscription-based vehicle tracking systems, analytical software and services”, Quartix Technologies (QTX) states that it “is pleased to announce its unaudited results for the half year ended 30 June 2024” and emphasises that it “is confident in the outlook for the remainder of the year and now believes that both revenue and profit will moderately exceed market expectations. The company looks forward to 2025 and the future with confidence”. So what about that in relation to a current more than 16% higher share price response to 186p?

  5. Pod Point – “pleased to announce its interim results”. Er, what’s ‘pleasing’ about them?!
    Previously writing on group describing itself as “a leading provider of Electric Vehicle charging solutions in the UK” Pod Point (PODP), last month with the shares at 23.5p I wrote “appointment of another new broker with immediate effect. Er, how’s the balance sheet now?”. It has now announced its results for the first half of 2024 which it states it “is pleased to announce”, but how ‘pleasing’ actually are they?

  6. Kefi Gold & Copper – “Tulu Kapi Update” announcement, significant upside potential now really very imminent!
    Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) has issued a “Tulu Kapi Update” announcement which sees the shares currently at 0.615p. We understand the update was in response to an article in the Ethiopian press questioning project finance and, thus, the project’s progress and, reassuring on those, it suggests that there is now significant upside potential really very imminently.

  7. BREAKING: What is the point of the FCA? The reversal of Georgina Energy into Mining Metals and Minerals goes through, a shameful day.
    When Georgina Energy (GEX), a sub scale Standard List POS ends in tears I hope that you have bookmarked this article for it is an indictment of the City of London and the grubby crony capitalists bringing companies to market but a damning reflection of just what a useless regulator the FCA has become. I published a detailed dossier HERE which showed that the prospectus for this RTO was riddled with material errors and was thus downright misleading.

  8. My Tips of the Year Update: Golden Prospect and Barkby
    Over last Christmas I offered up two tips for 2024 – one BUY (Golden Prospect, GPM) and one SELL (Barkby, BARK). So what are the scores-on-the-doors and how do I view them now?

  9. Pennpetro share price rise looks mental when you look at the actual production and financials - sell
    The market has gone crazy over news that Pennpetro Energy (PPP) has signed a heads of terms agreement with Globalvision International which will see it acquiring all of the shares in Pennpetro subsidiary Texas Nobel USA, and that has caused the share price to rise by almost 2,000% in just a few weeks.

  10. Ariana – Great News From Kosovo As New Porphyry System Confirmed
    AIM-listed Gold producer in Turkey, Ariana Resources (AAU), which has very interesting wider projects now, has announced news from its 76%-owned Western Tethyan Resources (WTR) in the form of exploration news – and the news is good.

The most listened-to Bearcasts this week were:

  1. Tom Winnifrith bearcast: Do I owe Stuart Ashman an apology? HELL NO!
    In today's bearcast I start with the bumper pay rise for the, lying, junior Shipmans, then it is Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), Optibiotix (OPTI) and harsh words for Steve O'Hara, Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Red Rock Resources (RRR) and UK Oil & Gas (UKOG)

  2. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: is Optibiotix dumping Skins and a real challenge for Opti's broker Peterhouse
    I start with a message from the Euroloon about Ms Reeves. Then the death of the North Sea and who is next. Optibiotix (OPTI), Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) and the utter scandal of Georgina Energy (GEX). Finally a few ouzo man thoughts from Paddy Leigh Fermor town. PS Footnote, O'Hara says Optibiotix NOT selling Skins shares.

  3. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Skinbiotherapeutics tomorrow, another take on Panthera, Labour lets the masks come off and more thoughts on short seller Andrew Lett
    As I hope you can tell, the covid seems to be easing. Thanks for your kind wishes I have a few thoughts on "the Rona" HERE. I l look in this podcast at Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) ahead of tomorrow's statement, at Panthera Resources (PAT) and another way to skin the bird, at Labour's masks coming off with an analogy from my late Uncle Chris and at Andrew Lett, the bear facing possible jail time.

  4. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The struck off dentist slammed again and the FCA does NOTHING! And Evil Banksta's new longs
    I start with my diabetes and a very positive update. Sorry Magna Carta I may not retire after all after this year. Then onto the Dentist, Ashington Innovation (ASHI), Celixir and Roquefort (ROQ), IQE (IQE), Parkmead (PMG) and what is a scandal and then Evil Banksta's new longs.

  5. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Mr ffing Angry, that's me
    And not just with Darren oversleeping until 10.30 AM in the Socialist hell hole that is Canada. In this podcast I discuss Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), Optibiotix (OPTI),the fat bubble, Versarien (VRS), Zak Mir, Optiva Securities, Lift Global (LFT) and the joke that is the Aquis market. 

  6. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: another epic FCA fail ( c/o Evil Banksta) and the lessons we can all learn from Tirupati and Hellenic Dynamics
    I start with the scandal at London Stone and the FCA. Then to the lessons we can all learn from Tirupati Graphite (TGR) and the fraud at Hellenic Dynamics (HELD). Finally I have today ordered the loos for Sharestock, an update on tickets have you booked yet?.

  7. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Doing the Fandango with utter chancers
    I start with global economic slowdown and what that means for our investments, then explain setting a placing price & what dilution means re Skinbiotherapetics (SBTX) and finally a detailed look at Fandango (FHP) and its nobody is watching O'Clock results on Friday. I was and you could not make this stuff up. 

  8. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: What happens to a company when it fesses it's up shit creek? I feel for Jasmine at Guild Esports
    I discuss why this company was doomed from day 1 as I flagged up. It was floated by chancers but they are not left holding the baby or, I suspect, any shares. But now Guild ESports (GILD has fessed to its financial crisis. What is happening within the company or any company in this position? From experience, I discuss.
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