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The 20 most read articles on ShareProphets so far this year

By Darren Atwater | Saturday 8 February 2025


Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from ShareProphets). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


We’re only a tenth through the year, but the ShareProphets team have already produced some real crackers.

  1. The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Posts Another New Record – And My Answer to Sohail
    Gold closed the week at $2,770 – a new weekly record high, well up on last week’s $2,702 and seemingly well on its way to a new all-time high. Good news for Gold bugs! But why aren’t UK Gold stocks roofing it, asks Sohail? Tom Winnifrith offered his thoughts HERE and I certainly do not disagree, but I think there are a few other points worth mentioning.

  2. Ariana – Further Newmont Investment….At A Large Premium
    AIM-listed Ariana Resources (AAU) this morning announced that Newmont is to invest a further $871,000 via a purchase of shares at 2.375p as Ariana’s majority-owned Western Tethyan Resources looks to undertake additional work across its portfolio of targets in Kosovo an North Macedonia. $871,000 is good news for Ariana – but that's not the point here.

  3. Update on my share tips of the year – after news and approaching one month...
    This latest week saw news from one of my two share tips of the year 2025 and now approaching one month into the year, how are the selections faring so far?

  4. Barclays to back MCC but screws me as a customer: just why I hate big corporate
    Today I received an email from the MCC of which I am a member, announcing that Barclays (BARC) has replaced JP Morgan as its “principal partner”. The MCC gets loads of dosh for Lords and Barclays gets the naming rights at the media centre and stacks of perks including boxes and seats for its top brass. The email is the sort of nauseating woke piffle I expect from the MCC these days.

  5. Dr. Martens – new CEO argues “great confidence for FY25 and beyond”. Er, really?…
    Footwear brand company Dr. Martens (DOCS) has issued a trading statement with new CEO Ije Nwokorie emphasising “USA DTC in positive growth in Q3… great confidence for FY25 and beyond”. Er, so what about the shares, already down from near 100p as recently as last April, in response currently further down towards 70p?

  6. Update on my share tips of the year – after news from another of the tips and approaching one month...
    I wrote recently on news from one of my two share tips of the year 2025 and on how the selections were faring so far. And today news from the other tip...

  7. A Letter to Roland “fatty” Cornish: how can you sign off on such utter misrepresentation?
    As he ponders whether to have 8 or 9 courses for his Friday Luncheon, I have sent a letter to London’s most corpulent and worst Nomad, Roland “Fatty” Cornish about his client PriOr1ty Intelligence (PR1), a worthless promote where surely even Fatty must concede he has been legged over.

  8. Ariana – Turkey News, General (Selective) Update, Gold North….Shares Down!
    AIM-listed Ariana Resources (AAU) served up a production results update this morning, along with comments over its coming mine at Tavsan, Dokwe and so on. The update reads just fine, but there’s an elephant in the room….or two!

  9. Amaroq Minerals – new licence awarded, surely non-gold assets now bulked up enough for spin off? Still a winning share tip Buy
    Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ) has announced that its 50% owned Gardaq JV which focusses on non-gold targets, mainly copper and rare earths, in Greenland has been awarded another license: the Johan Dahl Land licence (MEL 2025-17), expanding its interest in the South Greenland copper belt.

  10. Kooth – CEO argues “solid progress”, but why’s it “his intention to seek a new executive role during 2025” then?
    ‘Therapeutic technology platform’ company Kooth (KOO) states that it “announces a trading update for the financial year ended 31 December 2024, along with changes to its board of directors and succession planning for its executive leadership team”. Hmmm, what about this with the shares down from 345p as recently as September and currently slightly further down towards 170p?

  11. Virgin Wines UK – “Trading Update”, how strongly is it “signals positive momentum”?…
    Online wine retailer Virgin Wines UK (VINO) has issued a “trading update” headlined “Strong Christmas trading, increased levels of customer acquisition, further operational efficiencies and a healthy balance sheet signals positive momentum”. So what of a current still little above 30p share price, comparing to having been approaching 50p in the first half of 2024?

  12. FRC Letter to Tom Winnifrith: a formal thank you on Alpha Growth from the Accounting watchdog
    The chatroom morons insist that nobody cares what I write, that my warnings can be ignored and then repeately talk about me in adverse terms anyway without, in nearly all cases, actually reading what I write. Meanwhile in the real world, a while back I wrote to the FRC over the 2023 accounts of Alpha Growth (ALGW).

  13. Kefi Gold and Copper – General Meeting announcement suggests potential catalysts news flow “over the coming weeks”, Strong Buy
    Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) has issued a “Result of GM” announcement including that all of its General Meeting resolutions were passed but also from its boss Harry Adams a statement including “the full funding package for the Tulu Kapi Gold Project to close this quarter” and “look forward to updating shareholders over the coming weeks with our progress with respect to financial close and preparation of Major Works, as well as other potential developments on KEFI's other assets”. That should be very good news from a current 0.495p share price, £39.5 million market cap.

  14. BREAKING: RegTech Open Project: now only 1 rat left and it’s Zamboni
    At Companies House Vineeta Manchanda-Singh, the final independent Director of Regtech Open (RTOP) has now terminated her Directorship with effect from 13 January 2025 leaving Alessandro Zamboni as the sole Director. So what if this is against the law, laws are for little people aren’t they Zamboni?

  15. Regtech delisted today, accounts now overdue; another milestone in the collapse of the Alessandro Zamboni white collar crime empire & more shame for Zak Mir
    Oh dear, poor Zak Mir, one less fraud for him to promote as his own shitty business collapses. Today marks the formal delisting of Regtech Open (RTOP) from the main market and its accounts for the year to 30 June 2024, its first as a listed company, are now overdue. Don’t hold your breath

  16. Belluscura shares now hit new all time low: what is the bad news that dare not speak its name?
    I do not wish my new best mate Adam Reynolds any grief but Belluscura (BELL), a company he chairs, is in trouble and needs to ‘fess up. It is only not already gigging with the Fat Lady because it secured $4m of invoice discounting loan shark rate debt in the Autumn. But, with the shares today hitting a new all time low of 6.25p, there needs to be a ‘fess up. Is it:

  17. The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Retakes $2,700 (Just)
    Gold closed the week at $2,702 – back above $2,700 and scraping out of nomansland at last to the positive side, compared to last week’s $2,690. Good news (for Goldbugs) – and even more so for UK Goldbugs as it hit another new all-time high, closing at £2,230. Gold stocks also had a good week, if somewhat more muted than the metal, as can be seen on the chart of Gold against the mining ETFs GDX (majors), GDXJ (juniors) and GOEX (explorers).

  18. Sanderson Design – not only expectations of an improved trading environment “not been realised”, but also “recent worsening of trading conditions”!
    Most recently on interior design and furnishings group Sanderson Design (SDG), in October I wrote having been an AIM Awards 2024 nominee, just days later results statement disappointment (natch!), concluding, although the shares then heading towards four year lows below 65p, that the outlook suggested to continue to avoid. The shares most recently closed at 54p and what of now a “Trading Update”?

  19. The UK becomes more of a joke by the day: Department for Business and Trade accounts are qualified
    I was chatting to a lefty liberal arts Professor the other day who insisted that the idea that the UK was viewed overseas as a sick and declining nation was merely a far right fantasy. The Pakistani rape gangs scandal was a figment if the imagination of the Daily Mail and the only folks talking about it were extremist right wingers. I disagreed on the rape gangs, thereby falling into his trap and, in his view, thus admitting that I was a Fascist. I compounded my sins by saying that the slumping FTSE 250 and Sterling and that Gilts being at a 30 year high suggested hard money thought Britain was doomed. Today comes another damning blow.

  20. Technology Minerals and Project Blue – the warnings were always there
    The document below is the attempt by Technology Minerals (TM1) t raise £5 million back in 2020 to RTO into Stranger Holdings, a vehicle of the chancers Tatnall and Longley. That deal failed but the document, below, is instructive. First of all, there is the stench of Chris Cleverly.
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