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Centaur Media – follows trading update with “pleased to announce” new auditor. Hmmm...

An “Appointment of new auditor” announcement has now followed a late last month “trading update and full-year outlook” announcement from business information and specialist consultancy company Centaur Media (CAU)…

VRS
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No Turkish Delight from Versarien but a desperate deception to ramp the shares ahead of bailout placing

Versarien (VRS) is not generating any meaningful revenues from graphene. At a PLC level it is almost out of cash & its debt facilities are almost maxed out. And so notwithstanding the fact that it already has a Lanstead death spiral in place, it needs to get a placing ahoy. Hence a release today which is almost certainly materially misleading if not a slam dunk lie.

Crash

Video: US Dollar on verge of collapse - silver heading for $100

Trader Patrick Karim has words which will delight Nigel Somerville and other gold loons.

PRE
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Pensana Rare Earths – update on BFS & sustainable magnet metal supply chain moves...

An ‘Update on BFS and the establishment of a sustainable magnet metal supply chain’ from Pensana Rare Earths (PRE)…

SNX

Synectics – director share purchase follows contract win, But...

Security and surveillance systems company Synectics (SNX) has followed a “Contract Win” announcement with a non-executive director, Michael Butler, purchasing shares. Significant?…

CNA
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Centrica has the potential to recover following the disposal of Direct Energy and a shift of focus back to its core business - buy

Buying shares in a large company which seems to be going through a rocky patch is always a risk, as in some cases these companies never actually manage to recover, but if you do get it right it can be very lucrative and Covid appears to have helped to create some good opportunities. Energy provider, Centrica (CNA) has performed terribly over the past six or seven years and anybody who has held it as a long term investment during that period of time will be sat on a sizeable loss. Even prior to the arrival of Covid it was already in a downwards spiral with high levels of debt and falling profitability, but the virus accelerated that and even though the markets and many energy shares have recovered to some degree in recent months, Centrica is still trading closer to the lows with a share price of 44.8p…

BOTB

Best of the Best – “very pleased” with trading… so why are the shares lower?...

Online organiser of weekly competitions to win cars and other lifestyle prizes Best of the Best (BOTB) has updated including that it “is very pleased that trading for the period has remained as strong as previously announced on 16 September 2020 and that momentum remains within the business”. The shares are though currently lower at 1355p…

BLND
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Wishing the incoming British Land CEO the best of luck...he'll need it!

It is always an interesting moment when an outgoing CEO of a troubled business writes their final set of results thoughts. We have this today in commercial property name British Land (BLND), a company which back in July I observed had an office business which ‘remains a slower car crash’

BIOM

Down in the Wild, Wild Woods, A New Animal-Defeating Thing Begins to Stir

Hello, Share Bunnies. As I write, the Footsie is undergoing a correction. But all that vaccine news that invigorated our shares had to end in a retraction at some point. And as soon as the next big company announces a vaccine breakthrough we can expect our portfolios to bubble again. Meanwhile, let’s look at a share which should see some jumps, whether any vaccines are approved or not…

KEFI
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Kefi Gold & Copper – fundraising, should it really be “pleased to announce”?...

Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI“is pleased to announce” ‘Oversubscribed Firm Placing to raise approximately £3 million. Conditional Subscription for cash, settlement of debt and accrued fees’ news, with Executive Chairman Harry Adams emphasising “the proceeds will enable us to maximise the value of both Tulu Kapi and Hawiah”…

W7L

Warpaint London – “expanded distribution… underpins the board's expectations”, but what are they?!...

“Warpaint London plc (W7L), the specialist supplier of colour cosmetics and owner of the W7 and Technic brands is pleased to announce an update on the sales of the group’s products in Tesco and Wilko stores, together with details of a change of board role”. The shares have responded higher, to currently 69p – though that still comparing to more than 80p at the end of February…

WSBN
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Wishbone Gold – following acquisition of Patersons Range project, further upside?

Wishbone Gold (WSBN) has announced that it has “completed the acquisition of the Patersons Range project” and “issued 11,111,111 new ordinary shares… equating to the total deemed consideration”…

WPHO

Windar Photonics – following delayed 2019 results publication, delayed interims at last published (& guess what)...

Having been apparently unable to publish its 2019 calendar year results until 6:32pm on Friday, today from LiDAR wind sensor company Windar Photonics (WPHO) delayed results for the first half of 2020, though with CEO Jørgen Korsgaard Jensen “very pleased that the company has… managed to reduce the EBITDA loss and substantially improve on operating cash flow performance”. The shares have though responded to 18p, more than 7.5% lower…

SBRY
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J Sainsbury - an Income buy?

Recently-announced results from J Sainsbury (SBRY) included “sales (excluding VAT) down 1.1 per cent” and “loss before tax £(137) million”. The shares responded lower – but that after recently rising and they are now back on the rise again and we can see why…

VEL

Velocity Composites – there really some “excellent progress” & “a robust level of liquidity”?...

Velocity Composites (VEL) has updated including that it “has made excellent progress in its new business development, particularly with its long-term customers” and that “as a result of the cost restructuring exercise undertaken the board anticipates that going forward the company would be EBITDA break-even at FY2020 levels of revenues. The company is now highly operationally geared, such that any significant recovery in activity, even if only to below pre-pandemic levels, will have a strong positive impact on future profitability”. The shares have currently responded to 13p… approaching 20% lower!…

SYME
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When will Supply@ME Capital collapse? A bear writes

I see that Supply@MECapital’s (SYME) multi-shamed boss, Alessandro Zamboni, has done yet another soft interview with the Sith Lord Zak Mir. Repeated interviews with a man who makes Justin the Clown look like Jeremy Paxman are a strong red flag. You can’t deliver operationally so try to get the ramping away with a man who won’t ask awkward questions. So I asked a bear, who is short, when the shares will stop dribbling lower as they do most days and completely collapse. He said:

Gold
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Gold – vaccine No.2 offers just a temporary minor crunch

The announcement by Pfizer (NYSEPFE) that its Covid vaccine was 90% effective saw markets rally and gold drop sharply – initially by around $100. Yesterday saw vaccine no.2, from Moderna (Nasdaq – MRNA) announced, and the Dow Jones closed at an all-time record. But the effect on gold was much more limited…

Newsboy
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How I'm still feeling about flights (easyJet) and ciggies (Imperial Brands)...

Just over a month ago HERE I concluded about FTSE 100 names easyJet (EZJ) and Imperial Brands (IMB) that there was value in both. Since I wrote those words, the former has rather (if you will excuse the pun) taken off with the share up almost 50% from the either side of five quid level it was previously at. Meanwhile Imperial Brands shares are showing more evidence of clearly forging a triple bottom in the twelve/thirteen quid range and are now breaking up/out. That is nice darts…though neither of today’s updates are flawless…

VTY

Play Vistry for Me as Bovis Merger Builds into What Looks Like Strong Foundations for the Future

Hello, Share Trudgers. Continuing my support for housebuilders, may I bring to your attention Vistry Group (VTY). Now if this is a builder unknown to you, let me remind you that it was formed when Bovis bought the Linden Homes arm of Galliford Try. So no lack of experience, then…

GYM
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The Gym Group – “Operations and Trading Update”, And...

The Gym Group (GYM) has updated including “three-month period ongoing paying members were up 2.4% at 588,000 compared to re-opening (25 July 2020: 574,000)… has traded profitably and cash generatively” and “continues to see an opportunity to access attractive potential new sites and is building a pipeline for new openings in 2021”, but its shares have soared for another reason…

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