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Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending Sept 28

By Darren Atwater | Sunday 29 September 2024


 


According to the stats, the actual most-read article was the Long Reads, which I think had caught the imagination of readers outside of ShareProphets because it mentioned Project 2025 and Cryptocurrency. 

Popularly doesn’t suit the Long Reads so I won’t be making that mistake again. In any case, 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 HSS Hire – interims, states removing guidance due to ‘new group structure and the period of transition’. Er, what about the “more challenging start to H2”?! by Steve Moore at number 1 or number 8 including Bearcasts. 

The most-read ShareProphets articles this week were:

  1. HSS Hire – interims, states removing guidance due to ‘new group structure and the period of transition’. Er, what about the “more challenging start to H2”?!
    Tool and equipment hire and related services including digital marketplace group HSS Hire (HSS) has announced results for its half-year ended 29th June 2024 headlined “Solid performance, launching next phase of strategy” and including that it is “somewhat encouraged by lead macroeconomic indicators for UK construction beginning to trend in a positive direction. Both our businesses are positively positioned to capitalise on improving markets and we shortly expect to mobilise on a number of large accounts won over the summer”. So why a share price currently more than 4.5% lower at 6.665p?

  2. MyCelx Technologies – “changes to the customer's project timeline”, bottom-line financials that dare not speak their name?
    Clean water and clean air technology company MyCelx Technologies (MYX) has issued a “Trading Update” commencing that it is “following changes to the customer's project timeline”. Such-announced “changes” rarely tend to be positive…

  3. Cake Box hooks up with Nutella – at what point do we start to view these folks like the tobacco companies?
    Quite rightly we view tobacco companies in a poor light, serving pathetic addicts like Peter Brailey, they are quite literally killing their customers. However, the social cost to society of dealing with the damage caused by smoking is more than met by a punitive tax system. However, smoking is by far and a way not the biggest health threat to Western society. That threat, as I discussed HERE, is fat, it is obesity.

  4. Technology Minerals RTO is OFF (as OFT predicted): just how fecked is the company now?
    Oh dear. Oh dear. But you cannot say that you were not warned. Standard list Rules regarding an RTO transaction are clear: the post deal market cap must be in excess of £30 million and thus for months and months it was clear that the proposed acquisition of the remaining issued capital of its 48.35% owned battery recycling business, Recyclus Group Ltd by Technology Minerals was dead in the water. Today that was confirmed.

  5. MyCelx Technologies – interims, is it really now “well placed to capitalise on the market opportunity”?…
    Earlier this week on clean water and clean air technology company MyCelx Technologies (MYX) and with the shares down to 41.5p, I wrote “changes to the customer's project timeline”, bottom-line financials that dare not speak their name?. Now what about its “pleased to announce… results for the six months ended 30 June 2024”?

  6. UPDATED AGAIN NEW SPEAKERS Sharestock 2025, we are on: date fixed so book now!
    Call it a crowdfunder if you wish. Either I wait up to a year to be even seen by the NHS for a most discomforting condition of the sort a gentleman does not write about or I go private. Natch it has just to be the latter as life right now is not fun. So, given my diagnosis is, so far, not terminal let’s do it again. Besides which, everyone who came along this year said how much fun thy had.so why not?

  7. Not allowing myself to be played by a man who makes me feel dirty
    About ten days ago I was contacted by a chap who proposed that I put out a piece in my name that he had written about an AIM company. He wanted to keep his name private. I could change what he had written but only with his permission. Whatever… I agreed.

  8. Tern – Offer Fails, Leith Sells (Naughty), Cash Running Out And What About The Audit?
    Oh Dear, oh dear, oh dear. Oh dearie me. What a total fiasco AIM-listed Tern plc (TERN) is…..told y’all. Even as recently as five days ago I suggested that Tern was in trouble as the latest attempt to hawk cash would fail. Well, it has: Tern has days to go before it runs out of cash, Bruce Leith (a former director until just over a year ago and still a PMDR) seems to me to have been selling shares unannounced and the auditors, having signed this POS off as a Going Concern only in May…..they should be shot: what happened to professional scepticism; what happened to making sure the numbers (you only had one job…!) added up?

  9. Zak Mir’s got a new broker but about that £750,000 it seems to have spaffed
    Lift Global Ventures ( LFT) the AQSE listed vehicle of brown envelope man Zak Mir has announced that it had switched adviser from Optiva to Oberon which, as we saw recently, will act for absolutely anybody. I assume that Oberon did not due diligence at all as most of Lift’s balance sheet is a £750,000 loan made to Trans African Energy.

  10. Rat. Sinking Ship. Technology Minerals
    There are director resignations and there are director resignations. We all know that folks want to move on and progress their careers and when that happens they give notice and may or may not agree to work out that notice. But for someone to quit with immediate effect should always be a red flag.

The most listened-to Bearcasts this week were:

  1. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I asked 3 CEOs why they were not buying shares, only Stuart Ashman replied
    A start with Optibiotix (OPTI), Probiotix (PBX) and Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX). then it is Tern (TERN), Red Rock Resources (RRR), let's send it bust, Union Jack Oil (UJO) and Accelerate (AC8)

  2. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: can you use your special relationship with Kefi I was asked (yet again)
    In today's bearcast I discuss Kefi Gold and Copper (KEFI), Chesterfield Resources (CHF), Vinanz (BTC) and Argo Blockchain (ARB)

  3. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: Sack the board GM now called at Probiotix: feck off CEO Steen, Stevie Wonder can see the writing on the wall
    Some vindication for my activism. I discuss idle threats from Steen Anderson and why he is toast and should feck right off now. Adam Reynolds needs to man up and hand the revolver and glass of whiskey to the Danish poltroon TODAY

  4. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Yes Optibiotix results were bad
    In today's podcast I look at Ceres Power (CWR), Hummingbird (HUM) and Optibiotix (OPTI) 

  5. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Musings on the Gold price and how to play it, class acts or dogs?
    Sharestock is, for reasons explained in the podcast, back next year on September sixth. Book your seats now HERE. From that to gold: where next for the yellow metal and, looking at the stocks I own, how to play it.

  6. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: Optibiotix and the nothingburger RNS Reach
    The podcast says what is on the label. Has Steve O'Hara over promised and underdelivered. Will he ever earn a microbiome cent? Do I still think that shares in Optibiotix (OPTI) are cheap?

  7. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: TERNing into a total disaster, open offer flops
    I end with some odd new notepaper care off my late father. I start with Tern (TERN), then it is Union Jack Oil (UJO) run by a dickhead and Victoria (VCP) run by colourful Geoff and the folly they share. Then Vast Resources (VAST) and London's worst and fattest Nomad and finally Miriad (MIRI)

  8. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Another red flag at Cirata
    Another ouzo day, I start with the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME), then questions for BBC Wales and Anglesy Mining (AYM).Enteq (NTQ) stinks and another red flag flutters at Cirata (CRTA)

  9. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast just for Peter Brailey: more beer and popcorn time from Probiotix but a big question for Optibiotix too
    Peter says that this sack the board event is entertaining him and so here is another podcast on the latest events. And there is also a big question for Optibiotix (OPTI)

  10. Tom Winnifrith bonus bearcast just for Evil Banksta: Eden Research almost 30 years of disgrace
    Just for you EB a bonus bearcast looking back to 1999 as well as to interims yesterday and to a grim future.

  11. Tom Winnifrith bearcast: The Ariana fund raise from the horse's mouth
    I discus the FCA's latest admission of failure on disgraced Neil Woodford then Ariana Resources (AAU) , the TRUTH about its Oz fundraise and how to trade its shares.
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