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You are clearly not invested
Your agenda is very clear to eveyone on this site
This is a good compnay and at a point in time in the futire I have no doubt the SP will reflect that - it could be tomorrow, next week, or next month, but it will happen
It don’t matter how much, or how good your analysis of a AIM company is, or how positive the results are that give you a “buy” signal. It is corrupt and controlled by MM’s.
Beware!!
It don’t matter how much, or how good your analysis of a AIM company is, or how positive the results are that give you a “buy” result. It is corrupt and controlled by scamming MM’s.
Beware!!
Great news! SP at all time low…..
Just one reason how the sp can drop like this with constantly good RNS’s.
Anyone care to ….
Billybamboozle
I disagree completely
When I suggested that maybe something is going on - it has nothing to do with insider information. I am very confident that the compnay have been very open and they always provide lots of granularity in their accounts. ENough that allowed me to pretty much predict their Full year results at GM / EBITDA / Cash bob on.
This is pureley speculative and for illustrative purposes...
If, you were Blackrock and wated to buy XP Factory.
Would you (a) take a 3% stake when SP is 20-30p and push the SP into the 30/40s
or
(b) take a short position and suppress the share price, tease out the weak hands and make a move when SP is much lower.
People been knocking this share for ages now. Definitely seems like something going on behind the scenes. Find it strange/funny people nit picking the results looking for bad news. This company should be given more credit considering its growth over the last 3 years. How many companies in their sector have shown this type of growth in this time with Covid, cost of living, train strikes, inflation, interest rates rising the aim market being at lows. If this company continues their growth this will be many multiples where it is now. And imagine when interest rates start dropping? Inflation is at 30month lows. When market recovers this will boom.
I think the slower path to profitability has disappointed some, but when you look at the revenue growth combined with increased EBITDA margins you can see that XPF is just about to hit its 'hot spot'. At these prices i'm buying more
How in the world is this 13 does not make any sense what are the views here
Must be so frustrating for Richard etc delivering 96% revenue growth and investors sell.
What buried bad news does Paul Scott highlight ?
Personally looking to top up here at these lows
My suspicion is that there is soething going on behind the scenes which accounts for the shorts / suppressed price.
Exactly! Which, on all accounts, should be seen as inside information and MM's scamming, manufacturing and manipulation of the SP.
What issues does Paul Scott point out?
I perdaonlly don't see anything that worries me here
Looks like soe big short poistions revresed yesterday.
My suspicion is that there is soething going on behind the scenes which accounts for the shorts / suppressed price.
As is Richard Harpers blog on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEnCMTGXRLU
What is it that we all don’t know?
SP down again! False, fake, etc…..
Paul Scotts of Stockopedia write up today isn't glowing, generally positive but points out some issues, main point being they keep hiding any bad news and just talk up their results, this doesn't really help anyone.
I wish this incessant seller would just do one and give us all a break.
And down she goes again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XP FACTORY PLC (AIM: XPF), one of the UK's pre-eminent experiential leisure businesses operating the Escape Hunt and Boom Battle Bar brands, is pleased to announce that Richard Harpham (CEO) and Graham Bird (CFO) will provide a live presentation relating to the Group's unaudited interim Results for the year to 31 December 2023 via the Investor Meet Company platform on 26 Mar 2024 at 14:00 GMT.
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Newboy - there's already a fair few - at least 50% sit wih IIs
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Getting a serious II onboard here would be game changing, one day
Nice lunchtime shopping spree from someone....
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i agree the growth has been quite incredible especially if you look at what’s happened over the last 3 years. think people are negative because the share price hasn’t moved and trying to find reasons. but i’m very comfortable here and if they carry on double digit lfl growth and carry on expanding sites towards their target of 50 escape hunts and 100 boom sites this will go far beyond singers 32p target price. i also like the fact they’re not only looking at site growth but also improving operational sites. good example- putting a ****tail bar in o2 site to increase drinking pre concert events or adding in an extra escape room in sites they feel they could fit one in.
also,
£9.5m cash generated from operations (2022: £3.2m) - £6.9m invested in capital expenditure
£4.4m cash balance at 31 december 2023 (31 dec 2022: £3.2m)
that sounds good to me.
Q&A with XP Factory CEO Richard Harpham: “Our growth is a result of the cash that we generate”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEnCMTGXRLU
Exactly, so hollywood bowl central costs are 10 of gross revenue, XPF is 19% - If they got a grip of those the sky's the limit.
I guess I'm just jaded after 4 years of promises of profitability, it acts like a social enterprise sometimes
For comparison, Hollwoood Bowl's UK central costs are £23m.
Whlst not surprised, it baffles me that people cant see the wood for the trees. The challenging market appears to have created so much scepticism, paranoia and aversion to risk.
This company is performing excellently - some of the innovative activities i see every day posted on LinkedIn blow me away. The latest is that they are taking "Boom on the Road" and going out to corporates with a game.
Too much being made of the operating loss - it's about as meaningful as Russian democracy. Its generating significant Cash, EBITDA and and growing quickly and profitably.
I'm going on record now to say that this company will get snapped up for 80p before the end of 2025.
Signed: Hedgehogarth, 19th March, 2023
Agree with central costs - could do with a further breakdown as this is confusing. It appears £7.8m is 'unallocated' and in 2022 the equivalent was £6.8m - so not an excessive increase when revenues have almost doubled. As revenues continue to increase this should hopefully become less of an issue.
Would be interesting to know what % is marketing and also why this hasn't been allocated to the specific brands.