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Yes, zero sympathy for Ape & any of those short sellers tbh - they've got their just desserts.
Never timed any of my investments this well (absolute pure fluke) - bought 1150 shares at 1190 mid April in the hope of a long slow recovery.
"EQT which is one of
Europe’s largest private equity managers with €242
billion in assets under management"
it's not like they would be low on cash to buy. Purely pocket money for them. That means likely to happen at 2550p.
By the way, apendragon did NOT close his short prior to takeover bid. We know it from the fact that he was bragging about his short couple of days before the bid and only retrospectively claimed he had closed
Obviously his 130000 short would have cost him about £100k in loser!
That idiot has probably now had close his betting accounts.
He was also so arrogant that he fate is deserved.
Hard lessons are always painful!!!
I find it astonishing that the company is being taken over and no one is chatting.
Goes to show that PIs always flock to the wrong shares.
IMO best of luck on the bid to all holders
I sold as i was losing money on this share, even though this is a good company.(watching so many shorters out there.)Though i have lost out.I am so happy to learn that shorters are skinned out.
Shorts have exited
Marble bar must have lost £20 million £.
Quite clueless professional investors there for you bro
Exit of the shorts imply also that they expect the deal to close at 2550p and don't wanna lose even more money.
Hence still a buy here
KWS is Irish with HQ in Dublin. I agree that our govt is useless but this is not a UK company
Offer is 2550 right?
So why is the sp 2200
Is risj of deal not going through that high??
Missed the boat on this one. A sad story though of delisting, HM government should stop the buyouts of the UKs most promising startups. No industrial policy and no idea. Conservatives deserve extinction for the last 14 useless years.
This is funny.
He was also shorting Plus500 at £13 clearly, that hasn't gone well.
Apes short badly killed him today
Added this to my workspace at the weekend intending to buy in today; pity.
Agree with skier, it reflects badly on the "money markets and traders" of this country that they are so ignorant as to the value of companies [especially AIM]. The sp of Keywords has been at an absurd valuation for many months. The London stockmarket is performing like a third rate bookmaker.
Not sure there's really much to celebrate here. Yet another UK firm set to delist from the decaying London stockmarket, and yet another UK firm falling into foreign hands and inevitably sending its tech, IP, top jobs, top salaries, profit or tax revenue overseas.
A very nice premium. I would expect the MMs would want their slice of this cake via a significant spread.
However, there are 4 reportable shorts to close and with over 80% of shares in sticky hands there is no way they will be able to suppress this SP.
I just love Monday mornings like this.
Some of his comments haven't aged well....
Cor.
Wish I had seen that yesterday.
What a premium!
Yes - thinks for sharing that AMPG. Tomorrow should be a very interesting day for the SP (and scrambling shorters)
Https://keywords-offer.com/docs/projectforgelibraries/offer/240518-project-forge---joint-leak-announcement_withconsent.pdf
Well spotted AMPG, maybe this time it floats the boat…
I see there’s still a fairly considerable short in the share, well 4%, that should help the shares tomorrow too.
It worries me that someone as rude and arrogant as Apendragon has invested here. Hardly inspires confidence in the company.
That's great, please keep us posted on how you get on.
Actually cretin I close my short at 1172 for a 22% gain.
Bought back in at 1122 so am now substantially up. All of you thickos are still probably deep underwater still i imagine
Some big buys today - is that shorts closing some positions?
What happened to the single digits Apen?