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West. The Short figure your quoting of 3.45% only represents those holding at 0.5% and above as per the following :-
Notice: We no longer track disclosures after they drop below 0.5%. It is possible that the manager still holds a short position even if we are showing it as zero
Don’t even figure in the top 11 unless I’m missing something..
Cineworld Group -8.22
BooHoo Group -6.34
Hammerson -5.23
Kingfisher -4.8
Network International -4.72
Currys -4.7
AO World -4.57
Naked Wines -4.5
Alphawave IP -4.17
Metro Bank -4.0
Aston Martin -3.64
Peaky where is you info regarding shorts coming from. Shorts for Royal Mail are 3.45% from what I can see.
Top 10 Most Shorted UK Stocks
Company Percentage of
stock held short Number of funds
shorting the stock
Hammerson 13.1% 9
Metro Bank 9.6% 4
Royal Mail 9.4% 8
Premier Oil 8.7% 3
Tullow Oil 8.4% 6
Cineworld 7.5% 8
Carillion 7.2% 6
Pearson 6.6% 6
Domino’s 5.5% 7
Petrofac
Angerz - Yep lots of quality UK stocks are seriously undervalued, again mainly due to the corrupt activities that short sellers are able to engage in when operating in the UK stock market.
Even though people say the US is the ultimate example of unbridled Capitalism even they have stricter regulations in place to prevent short sellers manipulating share prices and stock values.
I agree Angersharkz, UPS may be a bigger business with a bigger market cap but the core of the business is still essentially the same as RMG, in fact without checking I suspect RMG's P/E ratio will be far lower and more attractive than that of UPS.
Yet still the vampires that are the shorts are able to target RMG, largely because the UK stock market which it operates in is so amenable to those who specialise in corruption and manipulation.
In addition to operating its own fleet of aircraft,UPS has a global logistics business with 29m sq feet of warehouse and distribution space, over half a million employees, an integrated global distribution proposition and a massive healthcare business. RMG is an SME in comparison.
UPS and Deutsche Post are massive companies compared to RMG. Their scale and level of diversification makes their shares prices far less vulnerable to the size of swings you see with RMGs.
Mike I agree with you ..im a postman aswell and some days when the manager not there the office works just aswell
Ruxi - In response to your Blackstone comment, then yes, I'd put money on it that the the same brokers who are valuing RMG at 600+ and recommending it as a BUY will also have connections and relationships with the shorters, such is the level of duplicity, corruption and manipulation in the UK stock market.
Did anybody see the buy of £718K shares at 4.10 pm at £3.29? What faith in the company.Bought earlier today at £3.26,only a smallstake. There are broker ratings of over £66 on this stock so dont know why it continues tolinguish under £4. I know about the strike action but that will be resolved or die a death.
My new rule is find an undervalued stock. Check the short positions. If there is a lot wait until there isnt then invest. Its a shame you have to do that but they seem to completely run teh market and bypass any logic. Case in point THG and Boohoo. Both massively undervalued but neither will rise until the shorts pull out. The press are all complicit in this game.
Notso. You make a good point re: shorting. The problem is that nothing will change with so many noses in the trough.
Its being shorted. Thats the difference. Its being shorted to hell and the shorts are increasing. The UK stock exchange is compltely run by shorters. So many undervalued stocks but they wont go up until the city boys stop playing their games. Something needs to chage it makes a mockery of our market.
Dessy - I'm not entirely sure just what you're waffling on about but I didn't offer my view or opinion... I offered facts from first hand experience of the workplace and the role of managers within it.
I always do try to buy towards the bottom….just never seem to accomplish it,that’s probably why iam still sending my parcels recorded instead of special…but it still works and as yet has never let me down….:-/
Caspet, my pleasure. He was usually quite upbeat and would probably find that a bit difficult currently.
Maxi. Better to buy near bottom than "on the way down"
Oli. Thanks for the update. Looks like these will be getting even cheaper.
For clarity it gives me no pleasure being of this frame of mind. Just trying to face facts.
You have to expect that,nobody is going to get anything close to the rate of inflation.fact.
And if you do your in cuckoo land.
The CWU are holding a two day meeting in Liverpool today and tomorrow. Terry Pullinger has released a statement an open letter to Simon Thompson regarding this year's pay award. By the looks of it, things aren't going too well so watch this space.
One thing I always say,nothing goes up forever,and nothing goes down forever….not everyone’s cup of tea,but I always buy on bad news or when the share is on the way down,then reap the rewards on the rise and sell on good news…this one is taking a little longer than planned:-/
Cheers Red .
I recall "common" signed out a month ago with the parting words :-
"we will just have to sit it out"
That echoes my thoughts exactly. The SP will rise in time and reward the faithful. All that's required is Faith & Patience.
Don't hear much from commonsense now///
Buy on bad news sell on good news…I will buy a few more today
You are correct Oli , it's nothing new and has happened many times to all managers. Last time they kept the same pay but many lost mileage allowances. Last time some managers reverted to being posties again as the number of hours worked compared to pay wasn't that far off a posties but without the screaming they get from regional managers about cut cut cut and lapse lapse lapse all the while. Most of the managers in our area spend most of the day delivering mail and they have become glorified posties. The managers union is useless and many managers aren't members so the Guardian spouting crap about an all out strike is laughable.