Exclusive: Neil Woodford's Unicorn-hunter's graveyard found
Some of you may remember Cynical Bear’s amusement at the operational highlight reported by Woodford Patient Capital Trust in its April results statement:
“UNICORN HUNTERS: The Company is invested in four companies valued at more than $1 billion – Purplebricks, Oxford Nanopore, Benevolent AI and Immunocore.”
Cynical went on: WPCT used to have many more unicorns in the portfolio, Prothena and Theravance Biopharma to mention two very recent ones. I like to imagine that Neil Woodford is literally hunting them down, investing in them and then shooting them dead from point-blank range. Well, I have news: ShareProphets can exclusively reveal Woodford’s Unicorn Graveyard….
- By Nigel Somerville |
- 7 November 2018, 01:33 |
October performance update: start of 2018 shorted AIM shares
Early this year we showed Shorted AIM shares at the start of 2018. After the latest month, how's performance?...
- By ShareProphets |
- 7 November 2018, 01:32 |
This Ambitious Warehouse Firm Is Set to Accommodate Fast-Growing Selling Trends
Hello, Share Provers. You may have noticed that I favour the warehouse game. It seems to me that online shopping is the in-thing and the stuff has to be stored somewhere. However, Warehouse REIT (WHR) provides a wider warehouse function. It also serves the old-fashioned retail world.
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 7 November 2018, 01:28 |
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Victoria plc – “outrageous untruths… damaged the value of the shares”?, what about the margin warning & bond issue shambles?
Late last month, Steve noted on Victoria plc (VCP) warns on margins, Lucian’s ‘roll up unravel’ underway?. Since then there’s been “Credit Rating and Response to Speculation”, “Credit Rating” and now “Update on Bond” announcements…
- By Tom Winnifrith & Steve Moore |
- 6 November 2018, 08:41 |
Columbus Energy Resources – Spain ‘disappointment’, but focus is on Trinidad. Still a buy
Columbus Energy Resources (CERP) has updated that it “has received notification from the Spanish Government that it should commence the decommissioning of the Ayoluengo field”. The company has been expecting the government to re-tender the concession...
- By HotStockRockets |
- 6 November 2018, 08:39 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Fireworks in Bristol & NY19, a damp squib at Purplebricks
I start with fireworks with Guardian reading tossers in Clifton last night and end up with fireworks in NY19 and the US mid-terms. My analysis of a week ago, I largely stand by although recent polling data has been fascinating. In terms of shares I look at Victoria (VCP), MySquar (MYSQ), Accesso (ACSO), Air Partner (AIR) and Purplebricks (PURP)
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 6 November 2018, 08:24 |
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Purplebricks – half-year trading update, sensible yet again to be doing the opposite of Woodford
A trading update for its half-year ended 31st October 2018 from Purplebricks (PURP) is noticeable for what it fails to say not for what it actually says...
- By Tom Winnifrith & Steve Moore |
- 6 November 2018, 08:24 |
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MySquar – and another thing the FCA may wish to look at – remember young pipsqueak Josh Adams
You may remember Joshua Adams? Aged 28 he wrote to me to say that he “prayed for my destruction”. Wind forward five years and, playing with Daddy’’s money, he amassed a stake of 16% in the MySquar (MYSQ) fraud. Now looking at both Companies house and the RNS feed I worry that young Joshua may have been a very naughty boy indeed and I have asked the FCA to investigate him accordingly. But fear not Josh, I am a nice guy and will be praying for your salvation as I kneel at the bedside tonight.
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 6 November 2018, 08:23 |
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The Daily Mail repeats the Neil Woodford lie as it tries to save him yet again
Over the past two years one salient feature of the Neil Woodford car crash is that every couple of months the Daily Mail or Mail on Sunday, which were the biggest cheer-leaders for Nomates when he set up Woodford Investment Management, runs an article saying “it’s bad but will get better, average down.” The trouble is that the Mail thesis is based on one big lie. At the weekend it was veteran Personal Finance hack Jeff Prestridge who landed an exclusive interview, i.e a blow job for Neil.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 6 November 2018, 08:23 |
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Imperial Brands - fade the moral outrage & buy
Time for another write-up on Imperial Brands (IMB)...and no doubt time for a bunch of criticism in the comments about how this is an uninvestable sector. Well I do not smoke, would not want my children to smoke/use tobacco-based products but - in a modern world of information and regulation/taxation - I respect the right of adults to do so and I remain perfectly comfortable in investing in the sector. Otherwise, where do you draw the investing line? Alcohol? Defence? Gambling? Clothing names who directly or indirectly use child labour and lots of water? Energy and mining names due to their use of the world's assets? You get the gist...
- By Chris Bailey |
- 6 November 2018, 08:23 |
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First Derivatives shares surge on interims but 11 points you may wish to consider
As I write, shares in First Derivatives (FDP) the company floated via a fraudulent IPO and which has overstated its earnings by c50% for each of the past three years, are surging. Interims have gone down well and the stock is up 160p ( c5%) at £34.10. But hang on Henry… here are 11 points you may wish to consider before buying
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 6 November 2018, 08:22 |
WANdisco – China contract win further supports tip thesis
WANdisco (WAND) “is pleased to announce it has secured a contract with the leading information and communications technology provider in China for its Source Code Management product”…
- By HotStockRockets |
- 6 November 2018, 08:22 |
Why Oil Shares Could Hit New Highs as Ordinary Iranians Suffer
Hello, Share Sparers. Over a year or two now, I’ve extolled the arguments for investing in oil giants. That argument, especially for Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) is becoming more compelling. Here's the reason...
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 6 November 2018, 08:11 |
Marcus Stuttard, the world's worst regulator receives evidence of fraud at MySquar caption contest
In October last year I presented thje AIM Regulation team headed by the man who ludicrously allowed himself to be dubbed the Sheriff of AIM, Mr Marcus Stuttard with slam dunk proof of massive fraud at MySquar (MYSQ). He did nothing. MySquar raised millions of pounds AFTER that from issuing shares which after today are now worthless as the fraud is laid bare. Mr Stuttard's failure to act has cost investors millions. And this is not his first lamentable failure. Is he the most useless regulator on this planet? Anyhow, he is pictured below after receiving my proof of fraud at MySquar last October. Please supply a suitable caption by midnight tonight in the comments section below.
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 5 November 2018, 15:32 |
ShareProphets readers tips for 2018 competition - end October update
Having asked for readers tips for 2018 for the amazing prize of a meal with Tom Winnifrith (or the chance to fob it off on someone you don't like) HERE, the following is a monthly update on performance (to be eligible needed to have selected, on a per username basis, a buy & sell pick from the LSE or AIM Casino and the stocks not to have been suspended at the commencement of 2018)...
- By ShareProphets |
- 5 November 2018, 15:30 |
David Lenigas tweets on Angus Energy ahead of placing at 9p today
Of course David Lenigas is not on the board of Angus Energy (ANGS) and thus had no idea at all that a heavily discounted placing at 9p would be announced today. And thus his aggressive pumping of the stock on twitter last week, as you can see below, is just another remarkable coincidence. Just like this one ahead of the last UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) bailout placing. Big Dave.., an AIM casino leopard who never changes his spots.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 5 November 2018, 13:04 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: okay you asked for it, I hope this makes you happy
I start with a reader request. I do as you wish. In this podcast I cover MySquar (FRAUD), ADVFN (AFN) and Totally (TLY) in the battle of the anorexic Ethiopian super model balance sheets, Avanti Communications (AVN), Purplebricks (PURP) and ripping off customers as a business model, and also Angus Energy (ANGS). Post bearcast I have just had a good chat with Tim Steer who has a book out soon. More on that when it is published.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 5 November 2018, 11:41 |
The Everything Bubble - When Will It Finally Crash?
Much like the laws of physics, there are certain laws of economics that remain constant no matter how much manipulation exists in the markets. Expansion inevitably leads to contraction, and that which goes up must eventually come down. Central banks understand this reality very well; they have spent over a century trying to exploit those laws to their own advantage...
- By David Scott |
- 5 November 2018, 11:40 |
CAP-XX – it’s screw you private investors as it’s “we are delighted to receive continued support from our institutional shareholders”
Previously writing on self-styled “a world leader in the design and manufacture of supercapacitors and energy management systems”, CAP-XX (CPX) I instead noted non-specific jam tomorrow and warned cash crunch ahoy then? Now “Subscription to raise £1.75 million”…
- By Steve Moore |
- 5 November 2018, 11:03 |
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King fraudster Rob Terry of Quindell infamy announces plans for £1 billion stockmarket listing
I have got more chance of shagging Cheryl Cole than Rob Terry has of achieving a £1 billion flotation of his latest fraud but let us humour the old criminal and examine his plans for OS3 Digital Limited, formerly Knob Park Estate.
- By Tom Winnifrith, The Sheriff of AIM |
- 5 November 2018, 10:12 |