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DGE

Drink, Drink, Drink to the Company Whose Chances of Recovery Are Strong (With Apologies to The Student Prince)

Hello, Share Choosers. If you had shares in a brewer or drinks producer like Diageo (DGE), you will have seen your portfolio creak under the virus. For example, Heineken’s first-half underlying profits were down by 52.5%. While the company that does Budweiser and Stella Artois lost 45%. Diageo’s full-year to end June dropped by 14%, still a big blow…

ECSC

ECSC Group – “Cancellation and Grant of options”, guess which at a lower price...

ECSC (AIM: ECSC), the provider of cyber security services, announces that on 21 August 2020, the company cancelled options over 588,037 new ordinary shares in the company… the company also granted options over 588,037 new ordinary shares to the same directors, PDMRs and company employees”. Sounds suspicious…

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Joshing with in house Euro loon Jonathan Price as he, quite rightly, faces house arrest

London millionaire liberal elitist, our own in-house Euro Loon Jonathan Price, faces house, or should I say mansion, arrest within days. About bloody time. I joke with him on email but I am not sure he sees the funny side. After that digression I discuss Red Rock Resources (RRR) – do you believe Andrew Bell?  – Amigo (AMGO), Sunrise Resources (SRES), Cobra Resources (COBR), and the very odd price movement at joke company Anglesey Mining (AYM). Cheryl Cole gets two mentions in this podcast

AMGO
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Amigo founder James Benamor tells porkies as the board rebuffs his bonkers proposals

In days gone by, the City would have termed James Benamor “a wrong ‘un”. His antics over the last 96 hours in tweeting out plans for him to return to Amigo (AMGO) and at least one statement which is a slam dunk lie only confirm me in the impression that such an assessment would be valid.

SSTY

Safestay – how’s that “to be well positioned to re-open as restrictions are lifted” going?...

Previously writing on branded hostels company Safestay (SSTY), with the shares at 17.5p I questioned “to be well positioned to re-open as restrictions are lifted”?. Now a further update and the shares further lower – at 12.5p – in response…

R4E
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Letter to AIM Regulation and the FCA regarding Marc Boyan and Reach4Entertainment

In yesterday’s bearcast, I explained why suggestions that Reach4Entertainment (R4E) CEO Marc Boyan was considering merging Reach with his private company Miroma should be investigated by the authorities.  Upon reflection, the scandal is potentially even larger than I originally thought. Notwithstanding the fact that two guests at my wedding (Messrs Wray & Yeoman), of which I shall be celebrating the 7th anniversary this coming weekend, are intimately involved with Reach and will be very pissed off with what I am doing, I have now written to the Oxymorons and the Chocolate Teapots and asked them to consider involving the Takeover Panel. The letter follows.

RIO
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Rio Tinto forgot to square off all the interest groups early

So naughty old Rio Tinto (RIO) then. The iron ore, copper and coal name has fessed up that it was naughty in blowing up some ancient rockshelters at Juukan Gorge ‘and have unreservedly apologised to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people’. After, scrapping some executive bonuses, ponying up A$50 million to ‘attract, develop and retain Indigenous professionals into our company’, as well as giving such groups ‘a greater voice’ in its decision-making process and stating although it ‘cannot change the past…we are absolutely committed to doing better in the future’, right on Rio Tinto, yes?…

FJET
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Photo Article: what to pour on my cornflakes as I consider the AIM demise of FastJet and its fascist bastard journalist smearing PRs at Citigate

Shares in FastJet (FJET) have today left the AIM casino so are now untradeable, as well as essentially worthless. Remaining investors face mega dilution or administration or most possibly both. Having warned folks extensively over the years about an operation first set up to smuggle tobacco and which just could not turn a legitimate cent, I feel somewhat vindicated. But there is more… Citigate Dewe Rogerson and the half to £1 million of shareholders cash spunked on nothing!

Pinocchio
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Heroic Tim Martin of JD Wetherspoon sticks it to lying MPs, the lying Guardian, and the lying deadwood press in general

Tim Martin is once again this website’s hero of the day. The JD Wetherspoon (JDW) boss reports that trade is improving despite continuing assaults by those who thing we should boycott his chain because of Tim’s support for Brexit, including MPs and the loathsome newspaper founded on slave trading profits, The Guardian, who all stoop to lying. His statement today is cracking stuff.  The great man opines:

CTEA
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Catenae – marketing deal with Markops paid for in to-be-issued shares. Hmmm

AIM-listed Catenae Innovation (CTEA) has announced a shares-for-fees deal with marketing consultancy Markops Limited. The shares, to be issued at 3.65p assuming the forthcoming AGM approves the lifting of the headroom available, will not hit the market until 28 September and are apparently worth £12,500. Now I’m sure that Markops are fine people, but……..

EMIS

This Medical Software Specialist Is Set to Benefit Now and in the Post-Covid Future

Hello, ShareTellers. While Tony Blair once famously said; ‘Education, education, education!’, I think we should adopt the suggestion to ‘Health, health, health!’ don’t you? Companies in this wide sector have much better chances in the future as part of the Covid-effect. So today let’s take a peek at EMIS (EMIS). This is an outfit that develops the latest technology for doctors’ surgeries and pharmacies.

Tom
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Tom Winnifrith Shareshow Number 7: Two and a half hours on gold as it hits record high, what to buy or should I play the "green revolution" instead?

And now from Wales, by just 30 yards, it is my new, I hope, weekly video show. This costs 99p per episode, and you can either listen to, or watch some sparky interviews with Nigel Somerville on gold and where it goes next, on how to play the gold bull market, what stocks to buy and what non stocks to buy and how a gold bug positions the rest of his portfolio. Then Paul Atherley from a non gold miner, Pensana Rare Earths (PRE), a play on all this green shit everyone – bar me – seems to love. And I explain why I have bought Pensana shares even though I think man-made global warming is utter bunkum. Finally two stocks where the valuation is insane: Dev Clever (DEV) and Trainline (TRN). You can access the show HERE

SYME

Bulletin Board Moron of the Week contest: market lunacy and deluded fantasy edition sponsored by Supply@ME Capital

Can you beat this gem from the LSE Asylum Supply@ME Capital (SYME) board? I put it to you as I return from my Greek eco palace never having held a short position in Eurasia (EUA), as suggested below, that council house dwelling fantasist Andre01 is quite simply bonkers. Anyhow, in these fevered times can you spot a better example of lunacy, delusion or just sheer stupidity on a Bulletin Board or on twitter? Entries in the comments section below with a deadline of midnight on Sunday 23rd August. Now over to Andre01 who is bonkers:

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the stink of corrupt journalism and Jeff Prestridge and the shocking scandal at R4E

Yes, it is corrupt to claim that with 60 articles a year you are chasing Neil Woodford when you were for two decades his greatest cheerleader on Fleet Street. Jeff Prestidge ignored ALL the warnings and kept on urging Mail on Sunday readers to average down on Woodford funds. He should hold his head in shame. He demands transparency over Woodford while I demand transparency from him so I have 4 questions the loathsome reptile will not answer. I also look at bent PR-led journalism at the Sunday Times ref BT (BT.) Then it is onto Reach4Entertainment (R4E) where the FCA and AIM Regulation should be all over the company, its CEO Marc Boyan, and chairman Lord Grade.

ADAM
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Adamas Finance suddenly seems popular, but I can see why it trades at such a big discount to NAV: BARGEPOLE ALERT

When the market cap of a company is trading at significantly below its net asset value it would suggest that there is value in buying, but usually things aren’t as clear cut as they at first appear.

BT
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Don't hold your breath for a BT Group takeover

Back in May here, I concluded about BT Group (BT) following another big dividend payment going to the sword that ‘there is much more to do but gobbling down a reality pill may feel painful on day one but maybe not so much on day 100 or day 1000’.  In other words…they have a long turnaround ahead of them.  

ULVR
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Go woke go broke - photo article from Wales: Ben & Jerry's

Okay, this is only one store in a medium sized Welsh village. The one I live in. Perhaps, unbeknown to me, absolutely all of my fellow villagers spend their nights re-reading the works of Ayn Rand, brushing up on Austrian economics or on the greatest 100 quotes of Ronald Reagan and we are somehow atypical. My instincts are that this is not an unusually enlightened place. And thus in light of my article earlier in the week on #BoycottBenandJerrys and the woke hypocrisy of Unilever (ULVR) I bring you a photo from the village store.

Professor

Sunday Long Reads: Pressing COVID questions, Texas Fraud, British Orthodontists, Looting artifacts, Bad Mosquitos

Here are five long reads that have nothing to do with shares. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don’t you? 

SAE
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Simec Atlantis Energy- Bonkers or Double Bonkers share price makes no difference to me.

I have commented on Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) on a number of occasions over the last year on this site. I like the tidal turbine business as an Engineer, even if it is pre-commercial and in my view has little merit as an investment case basis. I have expressed my real concerns about the Uskmouth power scheme, which is by far the financially important part of the business. Fridays finance update on the scheme is potentially good news, but the fundamental issues I see with the risk profile on Uskmouth remain unchanged.

Quiz

The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #51

Well, you still don’t get a prize. the end of the weekend and we’ve organised a quick pub quiz. Grab your own beer, there are no prizes, and for Pete’s sake, no Googling! Only I get to do that. If you are so inclined, please enter your score in the comments. The highest score still won’t get a prize.

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