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Just to clarify I'm not referring to TW who was always up for a bit of too and fro and never lowered to personal insults in my experience. All opinions welcome here now!
"a sadly missed poster" That's far from a universal view on this board. Although occasionally posting useful info he/she was horribly abusive to many posters and a blatant ramper, preventing any balanced discussion. Good riddance and rightfully banned imo...
southpaw. Hope all is well with everybody here.
Nice to see Total Wealth back after many months away, he used to be C.C.'s cheerleader ( a sadly missed poster)
The board meet tomorrow and on the link below there are links to the agenda and live streaming if you fancy listening in. I don't expect VS will be discussed but we can live in hope. hxxps://www.england.nhs.uk/2017/03/board-meeting-30-march-2017/ 🍋
thekenner It is difficult to tell if you’re invested here or not but whatever your position is you always seem terribly angry. You are so angry that you ignore all facts and have very little understanding of numbers, so here are a few things to take on board before your next rant. Last year Beuforts valued VS @ £178,000,000 so with 6,388,947 VS shares issued that would work out at £27.86 each. This year Beauforts valued VS @ £240,000,000 making each share worth £37.56 each. At those values 1.2% of 6,388,947 would cost LEG anywhere between £2.1 & £2.8M and that’s assuming that you can find anyone to part with their shares. (see my past posts of VS owners) I'm not a lover of Zaf but in his defence, I’ve stated before that LEG has 2 (that’s two) directors so please stop harping about the £160,000 salary. Zaf personally owns 169,433 VS shares worth anything up to £4,700,000, maybe he will sell some to LEG? Oh wait, that will cost us over £2,000,000 which we havent got. For the record, there are 2,807,000,000 LEG shares in circulation which would value (based on VS alone) each one at approximately 0.60p each. Sorry for having a dig but your constant whinging is annoying enough but without facts to back it up you are, to me, either invested in the wrong stock, on the wrong BB or both. So, give it a rest mate, cheer up or sell-up and move on, life’s too short to be getting yourself so wound up.😄 🍋
Do you actually hold here? Do you understand what's going on here? Do you read the RNS's? Have you a view that VS may float, reverse into LEG, or get taken over? Are you not happy here? Other shares are available.............................................
£160,000 and what does he do for that? He recycles vs Rns. Yes he's worth every penny. Positivity I would call it pathetic ramping. Sorrrryyyy
Hi thekenner, nothing wrong with a little positivity after a dull week. I am interested to hear how many LEG shares you hold and at what average. The tone of your posts is always so bitter. At least this time you never mentioned the £160,000 Zaf is apparently being paid, I think you beat that one to death.....
Total number traded. We have over 2billion shares. How is that some decent buying? Rampers they insult your intelligence . The other holdings we have are a bag of sh@te. So sell them for what ever money and buy vs. Even if it's 1_2% buy it. All or nothing the other holdings we have are hopeless . Man up bod.
with some decent buying. Momentum increasing again now.
It's been coming all morning.
implied, given the state the NHS is currently in. If they want to save money on sun-cream (see BBC story this morning), then saving millions using "The Edge" makes sense. Rob Knott has the experience and contacts to make that happen, so I am expecting VS to be implemented across the whole of the NHS by the end of this year.
all buys. I did a dummy trade this morning, the 943,000 has tipped the scale and shown as a buy. I'm pretty convinced there is something in the pipeline, why on earth would the MM's want to show a 20% spread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slx4HuYHBc rob knott saying nhs implementation for 2017
I cant take any credit apart from holding onto the link for a while, it was one of the actually useful things our departed ramper posted before he/she was banned last year. Using dummy trades earlier I'm fairly sure everything today is buys hidden by the rather odd 20% spread. Can currently easily sell or buy a few million so it all feels like its in a bit of limbo...
of suppliers, they wouldn't actually have much choice. As the John Lewis Group have implemented "The Edge", anyone who wants to supply them with goods would have to go through that channel I would have thought, as it's JL that have implemented the procedures.
coming back today. Good post there Drivenout.
Would be nice to get an update on this... http://www.health.org.uk/programmes/behavioural-insights-research-programme/projects/improving-efficiency-building With about a year still left to run would be good to know how its getting on, I still think this sort of thing will be the trigger for any proper large scale adoption by the NHS if we are to get it. Would also be good to know how many suppliers have actually signed up through the platform as that is the only way VS (and us) make any money out of this...
It's just a question of getting the news. I reckon there is a lot going on behind the scenes. We're told VS are in discussion with other retailers (M&S?) and some more NHS trusts. Looking at the news this morning regarding NHS savings it should point to the NHS signing more contracts with VS. Exciting times lie ahead here in my view.
p.s. i miss the more exciting volumes of the last couple of weeks, those sort of times remind me of why i enjoy this game :-)
Yes i know the report you talk about (its not hard to find it, or the many others on the Beaufort website) and I wouldn't question it was fairly well written but again cant be considered independent or impartial imo. Theres always something more exciting in AIM so although its good to only release relevant RNS's, we've seen in the past here that losing momentum causes traders to get bored and move on. Anyway this is all just a way of passing the time until the next RNS, lets hope its a good one...
Yes, fully agree. LEG is now very news-driven indeed, and the one thing that Zaf can hold his head up on is that he strictly sticks to RNS's only when they relevant instead of like some companies that spew out irrelevant news. Noted your comments on Beaufort, but I think it was early last year they did a very comprehensive report on LEG and VS in particular. You have to dig for it online, it's somewhere out there in PDF form, quite a lot of pages but a very reassuring read. I see two scenarios going forward, one being that VS accumulate a lot more contracts in a shorter time-frame and then decide to float on the market, the other being that they reverse into LEG thereby giving themselves a stock market vehicle. Either scenario would set a rocket under the LEG share price. It's just a question of waiting for everything. GL to you and all LEG holders.
Nice of you to return after nearly a year away :-P Its good that there are plenty positive reports out there, but as with anything that doesn't involve the transfer of VS shares for cold hard cash it has to be taken with a pinch of salt. Beaufort reports state themselves in the small print of the last page their shortcomings (which is a good thing and to be commended) and are also employed by leg so cant be considered independent and impartial. As always what we need here is more news in the form of official RNS's that officially give us a value for VS. I guess the one good thing about them not releasing news regularly is the inevitable spike every time they do! Lets hope we can get some more contract news and not more placings for the foreseeable future...