Nichols plc Share Price (NICL)

Considered "top up" with this years ISA but seeing massive gap between Buy and Sell price ! Invested elsewhere with little difference in value of the trades. A pity the huge gap at Nichols.

Having gone ex. divi. the sp has slumped again. I can see no reason for the market being so negative to this company !

Well Uh-oh, i think you are correct. The company is indeed trading well. The results to-day certainly justified a boost in the sp. an Aim share to stay with for a steady long term investment and there are few of those about!

My guess, ironknut, is that the weakness is little more than an investor trying to sell a tranche of shares. As you will appreciate, there is very little liquidity in most AIM stocks and so when there is an overhang, price movements on the downside can get overdone. Indeed, the more the shares fall, the more fear creeps in and buyers go to ground. We know from a recent update that the company is trading perfectly well. On fundamentals, the rating is not that cheap, but then better quality AIM stocks rarely are. With a little patience, I foresee the shares recovering.

Anyone explain crash in the sp. At this value maybe time for a share buy back ?