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And current trading is possibly good otherwise they may have given themselves more time to announce?
I make that 50 Days earlier than last year (31st May), surely they must be keen to announce good results?
The Board is pleased to confirm that the interim results for the six-month period to 28 February 2017 will be announced on Tuesday 11 April 2017.
Maybe it should have been "pff" instead of "uh" then? anyway so long as it doesn't smell like another placing who cares? GLA
Hopefully they won't follow-through, then... I think it's (hopefully) just the beginnings of a return to something more like normality. Obvious reasosns APC has been unloved for 18 months, but was clear signs the ship steadying and then turning around (last results had every reason for optimism). As confidence returns we will hopefully see return first over 8p then to test 10p - as the mcap right now is still too low for this business IMO and we are being penalised for the lingering doubts over the turnaround. All very much to be expected, of course.
It gives me the feeling that something/body is about to pass wind but i could be wrong!! Please DYOR
Uh ?
I should add - it might also be a broker-to-broker transfer or housekeeping, in which case it is neutral in the context of supply/demand. But still interesting as it registers as volume and the volume was high - for APC at least, given its relatively unloved backwater status since the JR days game to a thunderous close.
Agree mid price trade could be either - it's impossible for ANY website to 100% correctly classify every trade as a buy or sell, because the market nor the MM who between them run SEAQ, provide that data. Even if a website could get away with polling the live prices there would still be mistakes when the price moves quickly and anomalies/edge cases. However it looks to me like a worked trade, filled during the day. And since there was only £400k of buys it doesn't look like it was a worked sell pushed on to those buyers - looks more likely a worked buy picking up the shares sold that day, which number slightly more than £480k. The price to buy this morning is still 7p, even for smaller amounts - supporting the likelihood that there wasn't a large sell worked yesterday.
The digital look website is showing the last trade of 480k as a sell. I don't think that will really matter as it obvious that these sells are being filled so I would expect a bounce back to yesterday's original open today. There is either a large order being filled or we will be party to some game changing news, positive or negative, very soon. It's been a good few years since the stock had such interest and large trades like we have seen recently. As private investors we can only guess the outcome and are not privy to any behind the scenes info unlike some who seem to be exchanging stock recently. I,ll be keeping my eyes open for any contract news relative to this business in the hope that we pick up major work, fingers crossed.
Yup agreed something about to surface IMO GLA
Also that large after-hours trade puts the volume up to the highest in nearly a year, since 31st May
About to get interesting... They spread it out on Friday right on close, which gave them a lever to 'drop' the share price, even though the bid didn't change and the live price to buy fell only slightly. 491k shares were sold during this mini-shake, and I suspect the large mid-price trade after close may be a worked buy to collect the shares sold today for a small mark-up of around 1.5%, which I think the MM will be happy to do for a zero-risk operation.
Was that 150K trade a buy rather than a sell?
on who the next big buyer will be when they come through in the next couple of days? My money would be on HH!
I always had you down as a "bottom picker" lol
Think what you like but I called oversold and bought in big at 5.75p so I won't lose any sleep over it with the sp bounced and LTHs accumulating now... a terrible 18 months at APC behind them, now it's Business Time.
Your posting history expains all
Of course I would tell you it's not holders accumulating now - it's shorters closing... But that's just Conspiracy Jimbob lol
Would be nice if you are correct. My 60k top up this afternoon Have a good weekend all
Would not be surprised if today's buyer is HH. Almost enough to push them through another % point. They had no need to make the RNS statement as they fell beneath their holding percentage purely because of the recent private placement. Further good news if that are.
Agree the HH holding is unchanged. But there's a bigger picture being drawn here. Rockridge increasing (8.2%), HH holding (16.5%). Between them that's nearly 25% of shares out of the float. Add to that Robert Holt is back with 3%, Hawthorne now has 4%, Assume Roger Robinson family trust still owns 8%, Octopus 7%. Then directors paid for shares with their own cash, and contractor accepted shares in lieu of fees at closing mid-price (no discount). We're looking at around 55% of shares being held by significant holders or BOD and steady accumulation by a range of stakeholders. I'm not predicting major ramp ramp BOOM rockets taking off share price action, but I think whoever is/was selling is largely irrelevant as those shares have found/are finding homes and we could easily get out of this little trap and back over 8p in the coming weeks. And about time too!
"And those that probably know more than us buying" HH number of shares unchanged; Robert Holt bought 133,625; and Stuart Hawthorne increased by 83,000 If my arithmetic is correct I would hardly call these increases in numbers significant? as I've said before I would find it more useful to know the identity of the ever present seller(s) but fat chance of that.
And those that probably know more than us buying!