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Touchstone has production and exploration upside, although funding could prove to be an issue - speculative buy
These days I tend to avoid oil companies at the bottom end of the AIM market as usually the risks aren’t worth the rewards, and the majority of them do nothing but fleece investors over a number of years without ever achieving anything of note.
- By Gary Newman |
- 4 January 2019, 05:37 |
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Gear4music – having adopted a market share strategy… “capacity limitation” profit warning!
Previously writing on online musical instruments and equipment retailer Gear4music (G4M) in September as the shares slid below 600p, I concluded such a rating demands at least growth as anticipated; not “slower than anticipated” roll-out, “gross margin compromise” and potentially worse – and, even without all that, is still likely highly dependent on a continued bullish stock market. As such, at this juncture, I avoid. The shares are currently sliding below 300p on the back of a “Trading Update”…
- By Steve Moore |
- 4 January 2019, 03:40 |
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J’accuse: Nomad FinnCrap and Independent Oil & Gas mislead investors with RNS re its loan facilities
Yesterday I pointed out that the ultimate benefactor of AIM Cesspit listed Independent Oil & Gas (IOG), was blocked from doing any activity after an FCA raid and that created real issues for Independent. The company and its scumbag Nomad FinnCap (FCAP) has responded with a statement that quite simply misleads investors. That should tell you everything…SELL!
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 4 January 2019, 02:58 |
Neil Woodford rolls the dice at GYG. Meanwhile, Companies House still awaits…..
Is it the kiss of death? Last night it was announced that Neil Woodford had upped his stake in struggling AIM-listed yacht maintenance outfit GYG from 23.43% to 24.08%. Readers might recall that this tactic rather backfired with fully-listed Kier Group (KIE) and Purplebricks (PURP) and..the list goes on and on.
- By Nigel Somerville, the Deputy Sheriff of AIM |
- 4 January 2019, 02:57 |
REVIEWED: Performance of start of 2018 shorted AIM shares
Having previously noted a respectable showing from the start of 2018 top shorted London-listed shares, how was the performance of the AIM shares then shorted?...
- By Steve Moore |
- 4 January 2019, 01:05 |
What's next for Next? Online Sales Seem Set to Soar Even More
Hello, Share Tweakers. Next (NXT) is another retailer that realises online sales are becoming more dominant over high street stores. And that has paid off. A last-minute burst of computerised Christmas shopping has been especially beneficial, according to the clothing giant.
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 4 January 2019, 01:03 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Finncrap interims (you are taking the piss) and when is the IQE profits warning?
In today's podcast I explain domestic disturbances caused by the need to move to the Grim Northern welfare safari and to be closer to my mother-in-law. Oh happy days. In the podcast itself I look at FinnCap (FCAP), IQE (IQE), UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), Amur Minerals (AMC), Cabot (CAB) and Corero (CNS) a most almighty sell however you look at it.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 3 January 2019, 08:15 |
GOLD - For Whom The Bell Tolls
There is probably no more irritating an adage than the old Wall Street one which says “no one rings a bell at the bottom or top of a market” … but it does highlight the purpose or value of making a trading call - or if you prefer (as it is the season for it) … in making a forecast.
- By Ross Norman of Sharps Pixley |
- 3 January 2019, 08:14 |
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IQE: Countdown to another shocking profits warning & admission that refinancing needed now underway: Apple warns
Oh dear. Oh dear. For those beguiled by the shoddy analysis of thirsty Paul Scott into buying shares in IQE (IQE), things are set to go from bad to worse. Much worse. Last night Apple issued a first quarter sales warning.
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 3 January 2019, 07:33 |
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BREAKING: It is official – Neil Woodford is late with his accounts: what is he hiding?
Last year Britain’s most conceited fund manager, whose flagship fund is ranked 241/241 for performance, Mr Neil Woodford filed accounts 11 days before the deadline, on 20 December. This year Woodford Investment management has yet to file its accounts for the year to March 31 2018. It is late. It will be fined. The FCA will be having kittens. You want proof?
- By Tom Winnifrith & Nigel Somerville |
- 3 January 2019, 07:09 |
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Kerboom! Exclusive: Is this FinnCrap’s first scandal of 2019? Independent Oil shares should be suspended after FCA swoop on its ultimate funder!
Wakey wakey London’s second worst Nomad! Your client Independent Oil & Gas (IOG) could be about to crash land in tits up alley. A statement is needed NOW after the FCA swooped on its ultimate benefactor. What, you mean Finncap’s (FCAP) Nomad clowns didn’t realise? Jokers. Poltroons. Not fit for purpose.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 3 January 2019, 05:02 |
Corero Network Security – 2018 disappointment follows 2017 disappointment, and 2019…
A “Trading Update” from Corero Network Security (CNS) emphasising “order intake for 2018 is expected to be approximately 20% higher than 2017, driven by record order intake in H2 and the final quarter”, “SmartWall revenue growth of approximately 20% over the prior year” and “significantly reduced EBITDA loss to approximately $2.5 million”. The shares have currently responded, er, approaching 6% lower to 12p…
- By Steve Moore |
- 3 January 2019, 04:15 |
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The People’s Operator - TPOP goes POP
At 5.09pm last night, no-one-is-watching o’clock (natch), The People’s Operator (TPOP) announced that it had filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators – we are told this will happen within ten days. Of course, readers of ShareProphets have known this was coming for some time (not that the company has been falling over itself to make that clear). The decision was taken on New Year’s Eve – so how on earth did it take until 5.09pm yesterday to announce it (after everybody had gone home for the night)?
- By Nigel Somerville, the Deputy Sheriff of AIM |
- 3 January 2019, 04:00 |
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Next - no retail apocalypse and no profits growth...but that's fine
Happy New Year and all that...it is good - as a larger-cap share watcher - to finally have some proper and pukka newsflow to write about again. It was getting dangerously close to me having to write about the millennial bleating about how stock markets shockingly could actually go down. The even better news is that you do not have to suffer one of my subjective retail runaround pieces akin to my mid-December musings HERE. Back then I observed that;
- By Chris Bailey |
- 3 January 2019, 01:30 |
A twitter gem - Polixenes13 on the Tesla car crash waiting to happen
Most material on twitter is unadulterated junk. But there is the odd gem. In the case of Tesla (TSLA) where the sell side analysts are all paid bulls, some of the best insight is on twitter. Like Lucian Miers, I regard this company as an accident, no an outright car crash, just waiting to happen. In that vein I bring you a most instructive series of tweets yesterday from @Polixines13 who knows his or her onions.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 3 January 2019, 01:12 |
Find Findel as it Features a Feel for a Feisty Future
Hello Share Chasers. Findel (FDL) is an unusual sort of company, combining two very different areas of business activity. It sold a lot of Christmas bits and pieces in the Yule countdown. Its less seasonal products include clothes, toys, furniture and kitchen stuff. The other arm is the Findel Education department. This supplies things to schools. The only common denominator which comes quickly to mind is that children’s needs are a large part of its custom.
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 3 January 2019, 01:10 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Kidnapping the Chavs cat, the disappearance of Wildes and more
In today's podcast I explain why own in-house Bulletin Board Moron Wildes has disappeared, how I am considering kidnapping the Chavs cat, a forthcoming contest and then I look at Amur Minerals (AMC), MX Oil (MXO), Audioboom (BOOM) and Online Blockchain (OBC).
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 2 January 2019, 08:53 |
REVIEWED: Performance of start of 2018 top shorted London-listed shares
Early each year, we note the top shorted London-listed shares as at the start of the year. How did 2018's perform?...
- By Steve Moore |
- 2 January 2019, 08:46 |
Eagle Eye Solutions – “Appointment of Joint Broker”. Uh oh…
Eagle Eye Solutions (EYE) “is pleased to announce the appointment of Shore Capital as joint corporate broker to the company with immediate effect”. Hmmm, why might that be?...
- By Steve Moore |
- 2 January 2019, 06:51 |
Podcast: Gold to roof it, Deutsche Bank to fail, it's back to 2008 says Jaime Carrasco
Fund manager Jaime Carrasco is a bundle of New Year cheer. Not! He assumes that markets are manipulated through excess money printing and suppression of some like gold and silver. Investors would likely be less interested in markets if the price of gold were much higher. Precious metals reveal the underlying market risks and the year ahead will probably bring additional risks but also opportunities.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 2 January 2019, 05:58 |