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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - explaining gross margins at Optibiotix

I start with missing cat news - it is mixed. Then I look at Optibiotix (OPTI) answering reader questions on gross margins, Management Resource Solutions (MRS), Bidstack (BIDS) Metro Bank (MTRO), BCA Marketplace (BCA), Alien Metals (UFO), Bould Opportunities (BOU), and an apology on Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT). Now, to the 80% of Bearcast listeners yet to do the decent thing, please donate HERE. We are now at 38% of our target so all donations welcome as young Steve Moore says he may join the rogue bloggers.

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Echo Energy – a dangerous mix warns City’s No 1 oil analyst

I am always very wary of companies with large amounts of debt and that has deterred me greatly from backing Echo Energy (ECHO). Its results were out today and the City’s No 1 oil analyst, Zac “the knife” Phillips of SP Angel has issued a stark warning. The great man opines:

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Are Metro Bank's PR or Restaurant Group's hiring department the bigger fools?

Lots of numbers are out today but two pieces of buffoonery really stand out. The first is at my old pal Metro Bank (MTRO), a stock which I have written on a number of times – most recently in February when I observed that short selling was not dead at all. The share has dumped a further 15% this morning after a simply bonkers update that was published at 4.45pm yesterday evening…

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Gotcha? So how much of Management Resource Solutions does John Zorbas and concert party control?

Today at 2PM, Management Resource Solutions (MRS) hosts a teach in for analysts and investors at the offices of its PR firm FTI Consulting. Anyone attending might care to ask if the Takeover Panel has been in touch.

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The implied £4 million valuation for Bould Opportunities looks crazy - strong sell

A few weeks back I covered Bould Opportunities (BOU) and the huge increase in the share price, and I must admit that I am surprised that the share price has managed to stay up at these levels. At the time I last wrote about this company - which recently changed its name from Photonstar LED (PSL) - the shares were trading at around 0.045p, and I have been expecting them to drop hard at some point – and still do...

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April performance update: start of 2019 top shorted London-listed shares

Early this year we showed the top shorted London-listed shares at the start of 2019. How's the performance following April? (those in bold remain from 2018)...

GVMH

Can You See a Big Market for 3D Without Specs? Then Look at This Top TV Pioneer

Hello, Share Babies. As the Footsie is so flat at the mo, waiting for MPs to sort out Brexit, my thoughts turn to penny shares which are not so affected. Especially those with big customer bases outside Europe. So let’s have another peek at Grand Vision Media (GVMH)...

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast – Leon Hogan takes a Marechale bath: Rejoice! Rejoice!

In today’s bearcast I start with missing cat news (there is some hope) and end with news of the ultimate cruel an unusual torture for Andrew Monk. Think of the poor man and donate to rogue bloggers for Woodlarks HERE. I cover Marechale Capital (MAC) and AIM bad boy Leon Hogan, Maestrano (MNO), Redhall (RHL), Management Resource Solutions (MRS), Bould Opportunities (BOU) and Octagonal (OCT). Go on think again of poor Monkey and get the (now) eleven rogue bloggers over the £15,000 mark HERE

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Cartoons: A Versarien shareholder may be a moron but he's talented & laughs at we bears

Lucian Miers and I are the targets of a takented shareholder in Versarien (VRS). Okay the guy is a moron but his cartoons are good. The hero of each picture is piss taking Neil Ricketts.  The villains are we bears.

MNO
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Maestrano – intra-day (10:36am) “Trading Update”… having listed less than a year ago, not again surely!...

On 30th May 2018 Maestrano (MNO) was “delighted with the success of our AIM admission and associated capital raising” - £6 million at 15p per share, with it considering it “now well positioned to scale the business substantially” and noting “the AIM journey began when we participated in a UK Department of International Trade Fintech mission to London”. Today an intra-day (10:36am) “Trading Update”. Uh oh…

WSG
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Westminster – a French farce of an acquisition by fatso Baldry and accounting mayhem

On 29 January 2019 Westminster Group (WSG) the dog chaired by ex Tory MP Tony “fatso” Baldry of 3DM infamy issued a ramptastic trading statement to ramp its shares up to 12p allowing it to do a bailout, keep the lights on, placing at 10p a few days later. Now, as it prepares for its next bailout placing we have more grim news marking the company out as utterly uninvestable. First the mess of its accounts.

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ULS Technology – “market headwinds”, argues “investment in the business will help to insulate”. Will it?...

Provider of online B2B platforms for the UK conveyancing and financial intermediary markets, ULS Technology (ULS) has updated including of “a strong gross margin performance… continues to generate strong cash flow… maintain the group's policy of paying a progressive dividend”. So why are the shares currently, on the back of the update, at 70p – 9% lower?...

Newsboy
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Next thanks Easter, Sainsbury's thanks Argos... but I'm not chasing either

How was April for you? Well Next (NXT) had a good time as per today's trading update observing that 'full price sales in the thirteen weeks to Saturday 27 April were up +4.5% on last year. This was +1.3% ahead of our internal forecast of +3.2% for the first quarter. We believe this over performance versus forecast was mainly as a result of unusually warm weather over the Easter holiday period, which was particularly helpful to our Retail stores'…

VSL
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Woodford – the clear-out continues as he dumps VPC on an 11.2% yield

Earlier this week it was announced that Neil Woodford had dumped his entire holding in peer-to-peer lender P2P Global (P2P), worth around £88 million – the stake being bought by Quilter. Yesterday it was announced that he has sold his entire holding in another player in the speciality lending game, VPC Speciality Lending Investments (VSL). How are those redemptions going, Neil?...

OPTI
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Optibiotix – full year numbers, the share price reaction was wrong...

The shares are down on the day by a couple of pence at 72p-75p. The press release was long, verbose and not well crafted. As a loyal shareholder, I found a long chat with boss Steve O’Hara far more constructive. Optibiotix (OPTI) has never been in a better place and thus its shares are very cheap and a strong buy...

WPCT
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More bad news for Neil Woodford as BBVA misses deadline to exercise Atom Bank takeover option

For all the positive vibes surrounding Spain’s second largest lender, BBVA, perhaps landing a bid for Woodford unlisted banking startup dog Atom Bank, it seems that at least for now the deal is off the table: BBVA has missed the deadline to exercise its option. So no big payday for Neil Woodford’s beleaguered investors, then...

WTB

This Hotel Chain Should Have Room to Bounce Back after Pre-Brexit Fears Hit Business

Hello, Share Clangers. When I’m away on business, which is rather too often for my liking, I prefer to stay in Premier Inns. My reason is not that I think they’re great but that because, as a shareholder, I nab two nights for one at weekends. However, I don't hold the shares for this handy perk, but because the room prices are comparatively cheap – which is what stingy customers want these days...

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: a Missing cat and an attempt to shut down this website

It has not been a good day. Firstly the Mrs left a door not fully closed and two cats have become one, Quincey has gone AWOL. Then I had to watch a crazy cat woman Carole Cadwalladr video for the sake of Woodlarks. Finally we have suffered a DOS attack. Someone does not like our exposes of fraud and malpractice. We will not be silenced. As you consider my Cadwalladr suffering please donate to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE. In the podcast I cover Neil Woodford, Xeros (XSG), Eight Peaks (8PG), Alien Metals (UFO), African Battery Metals (ABM), Countrywide (CWD), Purplebricks (PURP) and the quoted housebuilders.

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