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Madness

Winner of the Bulletin Board Moron of the Week contest - sponsored by Telit and Eros

This is the last Bulletin Board Moron contest for awhile. We're going to let it lie fallow and let the morons fester for awhile. But we do have a winner for the week.

UNG

Universe Group – interims argue “a solid platform from which to drive future growth”, BUT…

Point of sale, payment and on-line loyalty systems developer and supplier Universe Group (UNG) has announced results for the first half of 2017 and boardroom change…

CBP

Take a Sip of This Share - and You may Find it Tastes Even Nicer Later on

Hello, Share Smackers. Occasionally we should invest in companies which do boring stuff. Based on the Yorkshire proverb  ‘Where there’s muck, there’s brass’, I give you ‘Where there’s tedium, there’s chance of a rocketing share price.’ Which brings me to today’s thrilling suggestion for your portfolio.

INTQ

InternetQ - what are the dodgy bubbles hiding now - accounts overdue....

In December 2015 from my winter base in Greece I ran a series of articles, starting from Athens with Love, which, I believed, quite clearly showed that the Greek, AIM listed company InternetQ (INTQ) was a fraud. Specifically I demonstrated that its music streaming business Akazoo was a sham. The company denied this and in the end its boss Panagiotis Dimitropoulos and fund manager Tosca paid c£20 million to buy out minority shareholders and take InternetQ private. It is now called Akazoo Ltd. The Sheriff is still on the case

Angel
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Master Investor accounts out..oh dear, oh dear, another £500,000 spunked, by Jim Mellon!

It is a good job that my old friend Jim Mellon is so rich because it appears that the assets he stripped out of my old company Rivington Street Holdings, that is to say t1ps and the Master Investor Show, seem to be burning £10,000 of his cash every week. Poor Jim. The accounts for 2016 have just been published and are even worse than 2015. One wonders how long will this very poorly attended show be kept going?

PREM

Premier African Minerals £3.5m Underwritten Offer from Primary Bid - Deadline 5PM today

What I know about Premier African Minerals Limited (PREM) you could write on the back of a postage stamp. And still have whte space. But if you are a fan it is the latest Primary Bid offer. But hurry the deadline to get shares at 0.3p is 5PM Today Sunday HERE. We are told that: 

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - Cynical Bear and Theresa May talk from ignorance & get it wrong: Big Sofa & Capitalism

I start with a discussion on Big Sofa (BST) prompted by Cynical Bear's article today which is just wrong. CB writes HERE. Then it is onto capitalism and the useless Theresa May and then on to another reason why house prices are set to crash. Finally I discuss forward selling and whether it is wrong or illegal 

KIBO

Kibo Mining – IT’S NOT A DAMN PLACING, OK

I am forced into doing a follow-up on Kibo Mining’s (KIBO) convertible loan funding arrangement announced on Wednesday last week which I covered HERE due to the fact that all loans were converted on the very next day on Thursday. What was the bloody point? Well, I reckon I worked it out.

PURP
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Purplebricks: Thoughts on Trading Update

Purplebricks (PURP) trading statement released on Friday was characteristically short on detail and did little to justify its sky-high valuation.

BST

Big Sofa Technology: Well, I was pretty close but what next?

I’m not particularly good at being smug but it would be remiss of me not to give an update following Big Sofa’s (BST) interims on Friday as I was pretty spot on. For completeness, Tom has already covered his thoughts in a Bearcast and a separate article HERE and HERE respectively, but here’s my take on it.

Newsboy

Notes from Underground - Spare a thought for the poor global shorting conspiracy

When we changed to reader-supported journalism three weeks ago, I stopped reporting the weekly page views because common sense says that page views would drop precipitously. Of course, since we no longer rely on advertising, the page views are no longer of importance. 

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: EVR has all the hallmarks of an AIM stock promote & its £75m valuation is crackers

EVR Holdings (EVRH) is beloved of Bulletin Board Morons but is rightly lampooned by Cynical Bear earlier today HERE. I look at it and note that it has all the markings of an AIM stock promote and that its valuation, £75 million, is absurd and makes it ripe for shorting. Then I ask if £15 million is too much to earn for eight years of FTSE 100 failure? What about £43 million for eight years of success?

BST

Big Sofa Interims - yes they are piss poor but the shares are a strong buy

When the international video analytics provider to consumer brands and market research agencies completed a placing a few weeks ago it flagged up that H1 results for calendar 2017 would not be anything to write home about. Let us not kid ourselves: they are piss poor. But that should be no surprise and it is what happens next that matters which is why we think the share price sell-off is wrong.

FOX

Fox Marble: weak interims more than discounted - BUY

Marble quarrier in Kosovo and the Balkans region, Fox Marble (FOX) has announced results for the first half of 2017, including “we have reduced the estimate of the amount of our order book we expect to realise in 2017”, but that “the board is positive about the outlook for the company for the remainder of this year and into 2018”. it is a mixed bag from a company that has missed targets far too often. So I can understand why some investors are saying that enough is enough and why the shares have slipped to 6.75p-7.5p.  But 

OBT

Obtala – interim financials not exciting, but the outlook is

Obtala (OBT) has announced results for the first half of 2017 and followed this with a quarterly business update…We are more than 100% ahead on this share tip but  we are still excited.

NWIG

Filthy 40 Northwest Investment Group – Interims from the investment company that doesn’t invest

Well here we are seven years (to the balance sheet date) on from the listing of ShareProphets AIM-China Filthy Forty play Northwest Investment Group (NWIG) and the interims are out. How close to meeting its investment policy is it now?

HOTC

Hotel Chocolat – full-year results, is the share price recovery justified?

In July, previously writing on Hotel Chocolat (HOTC) I noted trading update omissions and retained previous caution with the shares higher at circa 335p. They would fall towards 250p, but have recovered to a current 306.5p on the back of the results announcement for a 53 week period to 2nd July 2017…

EVRH

EVR Holdings: Interims out and the MelodyVR launch to take place at some point in the future…..probably

The bronze medal for EVR Holdings (EVRH) as it managed to get out its results on Thursday so beat a couple of contenders in the Results Preview race. Unfortunately, there is not a lot else to say as there was limited information in the results although that won’t stop me trying to get a contractually agreed 400 word article from such dire raw material.

QUIZ

Table of shorted AIM shares - week to 29/09/2017

From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2016 and thus far in 2017 (by net short position %) - and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week...

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