Previously writing on ‘cardholder not present’ payments technology company PCI Pal (PCIP), in July with the shares up above 40p I concluded whilst the cash has since been topped up, the rate of burn still concerns and remains key to monitor. As such, despite the top-line growth, I currently continue to avoid. Now the company argues “pleased to announce full year results for the year ended 30 June 2020”…

A trading update from Brighton Pier Group (PIER) including “pleased with trading on the Pier, in our golf sites and the two food led bars that opened on the 4 July. At 77% of last year, it is better than expectations” – and the shares are currently at 33.5p, approaching 10% higher…

What follows is one third of a special report out on Friday on HotStockRockets. To catch the rest (i.e. the other two stocks), you need to sign up here. Before the weekend, we published this. Tom Winnifrith writes: Okay, let me clarify. These are not necessarily the cheapest in terms of fundamentals vs price although they are cheap indeed. What I hope to show you are the three stocks which on a one month view have the greatest upside based on fundamentals and catalysts for a re-rate, not just hype from Bulletin Board morons.

It was on July 10 that we published an explosive dossier on Manolete (MANO ) warning that its shares would fall by 66%. It responded with a wankerish statement insulting ShareProphets and which was full of waffle. Its shares are tanking today and are now down 40%+ since our report. is there anything it wishes to say? Elsewhere, I look at Symphony Environmental (SYM) and Covid madness, at Brighton Pier (PIER) and the maths of the hospitality industry, and finally take on Gary Newman on Red Rock Resources (RRR) suggesting he is blinded by #BellDerangementSyndrome and so cannot look at facts. What would Red Rock trade at if it had a different boss I wonder?

A “Contract Award from OEM 8 and Trading Update” from Surface Transforms (SCE) – and the shares currently 47p, more than 90% higher!…

I have always been quite impressed by Abcam (ABC), which I described back in April as ‘a thematic growth investment – and not for widows, orphans or neophyte investors – with an earnings multiple of around 30 times and a play on where profitability might be in a few years time off clever science discoveries and processes’. In that article I observed that following the lead of a big institutional investor who negotiated buying a slug of the company at 1100p. Since then the stock has returned to the 1300p+ range and quite rightly so…

I have commented before on how Dr Michael Green should not be working in the City because of the role he played in the Sefton(SER) fraud which included launching a dirty tricks campaign against the heroic investigative journalists Mr Daniel Levi and er…me. A couple of months ago, he published a note on Bluebird Merchant (BMV) with a price target which, though I am a very supportive shareholder, especially after today’s RNS, I said at the time was quite utterly bonkers. It still is. Today he opines on Ascent Resources (AST) and his research makes that on Bluebird seem sober and considered.

Once again the heroic boss of JD Wetherspoon has dared to speak out against the GroupThink gripping academia, the media, and the political classes on the subject of Covid. As an example of this madness, rather silly Daily Telegraph reporter Helena Horton was today lecturing the actor Laurence Fox on twitter about his idea of meeting six folks for a drink tonight.

One of the striking things about how taxpayer cash is doled out via Innovate UK is how many of the Marxist Madrassas we used to call Universities are on the gravy train. Among those really tucking in is the University of West of England, UWE, the place where hard line socialists wanting to live in Bristol but too dim to get a job at Bristol University end up working. So here is where £83,341 of your cash went.

Hello Share Munchers. Some of us really miss the old Woolworths stores. And the nearest modern equivalent I can think of is B&M (BME). It seems the public also warm to B&M stores. They sell everything from food to household goods to, well, nearly everything that’s not too big. Now we all know that high street stores suffered during the epidemic. But not B&M it seems…

Yes we enjoyed a 4th birthday party. I consider this, the Government’s next steps to attack Covid, the furlough scheme and where the economy is going. I also look at crony capitalist Reg Hoare and his defence of the indefensible at Science Group (SAG).

Tom Winnifrith has been railing against Innovate UK with regard to splurging taxpayer cash on less that wholly deserving applications for funding from companies which could turn to the public markets or which have returned time and time again for more taxpayer cash with no discernible advance shown from the last payout. Today I turn to the Rolls-Royce of taxpayer cash consumption. It is indeed Rolls Royce (RR.)

The criminal way that taxpayer cash is handed out by Innovate UK to companies that are either undeserving or can raise cash from share issuances in the private sector will, in the end, turn out to be a scandal running into the hundreds of millions of pounds. Yesterday I exposed the £4.6 million, wholly unjustified, spunk on Haydale Graphene and today I flag up £117,377 dished out to a total fraud, Environmental Recycling Technologies then listed on AIM.

As the saying goes, these are unprecedented times. But I’m not talking so much about Covid-19 as the manic state of the markets, with special reference to the AIM Casino. And that brings me to my list of five slam-dunk sells for 2020.

Is there a better thing to do on a Sunday than to sit back and read a real, meaty article that is meant to be savoured and enjoyed? Not a blog post, not a news item. Like when we used to do with newspapers before the smart phone ruined everything.

Writer Bill Holter believes that the Covid response acted to postpone total meltdown. But it only delays the day of doom.

A month ago, we told you to average down and BUY Wishbone Gold (WSBN) at a 2.1p offer. With the shares now at 3.3p-3.6p, we hoped you took our advice and have clawed back some, if not all, of your losses on this serial disappointer. Where next?

Welcome to the Sunday ShareProphets Pub Quiz. Find your own beer, sit in the most comfortable seat, and, under no circumstances, can you Google the answer. Only I can do that. There are no prizes but post your scores in the comments for bouquets and brickbats.

Chutzpah: extreme self-confidence or audacity, usually used approvingly.

The most read non-Tom article this week is Bonkers! Adamas bizarrely uses the recent placing proceeds to buy back shares at a higher price! by Gary Newman is at a thrilling number three or on the edge of the leaderboard at number ten including Bearcasts and Tom’s new shareshow. Which one is the best of the week? Tell me in the comments.