Member Info for ahha

I'm sorry to hear you did not get in on HNT as you truly deserve to make some good profits because it is obvious you spend a lot of time researching your companies in depth. I am very grateful for your comments and observations. But at the moment I think we are in a rising market so it is not difficult to make money. I want to make hay while the sun is shining.......and feel that the time for mid to small caps has arrived. My calculations are that this market is going to get better at least into 2018. As I am retired now, part of me wants to stay in cash and safe investments.....but I ever was the opportunist.

Incidentally, another share I have held and been watching for a long time is OXB. I topped up with 500k the other day at 7p and am keeping my fingers crossed that they will double within the next 12 months.

Yes Gotrader, these are interesting days and I love it when you do a bit of research and come up with educated guesses. There is no reason to think that the next trading statement will not be just as positive as before......with Huntsworth Health leaping forward in bounds and the drag on the European side now completely reduced. It has been a long time since these shares were over £1 but it is not beyond the realms of possibility if as Gotrader opined [ without any evidence at the time] that this company will be "big". After all it is only a penny share......not impossible for it to grow three, four....five times the lowest price it has been which is about 33p. I hope you got on board with a significant holding. I wish I had held my nerve for a bit longer.......never mind......I'm still making big money. I wonder how much Diehard has made? I also wonder if Matthew Freud kept his holding......if he sold out for 45p then I am sure he must be kicking himself!

If this takeover enhances profits in the USA, where HNT seems to have rebalanced itself, then hopefully higher share prices and dividends may follow. My recent change of heart seems to have been vindicated. I see also that Nummis has upgraded its forecast on these shares to 77p

Maybe it's Die hard! Seriously, someone obviously thinks the future of the company is secure and is prepared to pay prices that have been unheard of for quite a number of years. The increased daily trades are a good sign!

I may have sold too many. Maybe Diehard had a point. Now all the world will see if he was right. I have bowed to the superior judgement and master investor Diehard! But part of my thinking is that all boats will continue rising until at least the German elections are over. So maybe there may be a little more profit to make. It would be wonderful to know how many shares Diehard holdsand what hisgame plan is. I suspect that he will wait to see if they fall or rise further before he makes any further comment. But I strongly suspect that we will get more hindsight comment.....when he sees how things play out. Comment that will belittle my achievements or give praise to his own based on how things turn out. The TRUE test will be what he predicts BEFORE events become general knowledge. I am honest and straight forward.....I'd like him to prove that he is of the same calibre!

Looks like the next set of results are going to be mega! Don't want to miss out on this gravy train!

It would be nice to see this share prosper as it has a sound business and was a former favourite of one of my investment heroes David Schwartz. However, I am surprised there has been little enthusiastic buying by the directors if it is thought this shares I truly out of the woods.

I focus on what I have made rather than what I could have made. I have been holding HNT for over six years now and I haven't sold one share. I think the most I paid for some was 70p but I averaged down, so that my average price was 40p. In so doing I broke one of the golden rules of putting too many eggs in one basket. Now that I am retired, I feel more comfortable with a smaller holding. Last year, on the 6th June, I sold 170000 shares for 45p after they had gone XD.........and 30 days later bought them back for 39p I sold those shares plus another 130000 for 49p this year. But I kept another 200000 which are now at 60p and I will get £3500 in divs on these. In all the time I held HNT they paid regular dividends and at one stage, paid 3.50p a share. So I could have done a lost worse! I intend to hold my 200000 HNT shares a bit longer.......but short of a takeover, I cannot see them going above 80p in the short term. I hope I am wrong!

I did the wise and judicious thing......I covered all of my outlay and what I have left is pure profit AND with dividends on top and AND an increased price. Very few, least of all "the Know it all" Diehard can call the exact top or bottom of a share! It is always better to err on the side of caution and not to be too greedy. Please note readers..... that this writer Diehard never gives any specific figures. So we have no proof at all of his ability one way or the other. He is best totally ignored.

I thought you had died Diehard! Welcome back.....but please let us see some opinions about this share worth reading......not a load of personal old rubbish regarding my investment actions! I am sitting on a very nice profit.......and I have still retained some shares for the dividend and hopefully further gains. But we know nothing about YOUR holdings....even though you claim to think this share could be "BIG". You gave no reasons why you thought that.....and you seem to have very little interest in any other shares. Since HNT started making gains....you have gone all quiet. You never stick your neck out or make any predictions, because I am convinced you do not know what you are talking about...and you are afraid to be exposed should anything you say be proved wrong! So come on....share with us your wisdom......where will this share be in 6 months time? Give us a figure......go on.....I dare you!

I'm very pleased that more people are making positive comment on this share. I held and added to my holdings over a seven year period without selling one share. I think I can be forgiven for selling half my holding and taking some profit. It's always difficult to buy at the lowest and sell at the very top. I probably had accumulated more in this one share than was wise, now I feel a little more comfortable with more cash.........but I will certainly miss the juicy dividend! Fortunately I still hold a sizeable number of these shares and hope that the shares hold their value when they go XD. My concern is that the company still depends on Europe rather heavily for its profits, though it has slowly reduced costs and increased the more profitable parts of the business in America.

I believe Blue Focus initially paid 58p! Still I guess they got most of the money back in dividends. Does not look like a takeover is on the cards then. I wonder why they decided to back out? Blue Focus has not fared as brilliantly as was hoped for. And Lord Chadlington's words that the partnership would be 'transformational' proved to be simply wishful thinking, hype and spin. As you say Gotrader, interesting to see who the buyer of these shares may be. The company and the share price is in much better shape and at least we all know what we are dealing with.....a company with potential and no more skeletons in the cupboard! I still have a substantial holding........but I did take £12,000 in profits last week......which paid for my winter holiday and will keep me in Chateauneuf du Pape for the rest of the year! I don't know what has happened to Die hard......having made an unsubstantiated forecast that that HNT is "going to be big" he seems to have lost interest. Typical!

I've taken some profits!

Yes Gotrader, I was pleased. Forgive my rather subdued response at the eventual publishing of the detailed results. This was because they rather let the cat out of the bag earlier than I was expecting.....and when the detailed results were eventually published, they were much as we had anticipated, without there being any extra nice surprises. I have held these shares now since 2010 and have seen a number of false dawns......and "more jam tomorrow" reports, so it is only understandable that I should be underwhelmed. But maybe this time it is different. For sure, in the early years there were concealed problems and a lot needed to be sorted out within the company. I think the share price was also flattered by a certain amount of takeover speculation. Then there was the epic news of the Chinese buying 20% of the company....all looked most promising. Then we had a totally unexpected tumble in the share price....... they lost half their value.....and we had the the "illness" and early retirement of the Finance Director, followed by the stepping down of the Chief Executive and several dreary, years of underperformance and write downs under the new management. But now, the shares are undervalued. The company is turning a corner. Clearly, Huntsworth Health is an extremely valuable component in the future of the company and if it can continue to grow double digit profit for the next 10 years and even a small profit be sustained by the other parts of the company.....we could have a good investment here, that also pays a 4% dividend. If the pound remains weak....this will further enhance profitability.......but 2017 must now show decisive improvement in stand alone growth, setting currency advantages aside. This year could truly mark the beginning of the beginning!

.....but still more sells than buys! I wish I knew what was going on! I've never experienced a share like this one. When ITV, which I once held, moved from 20p to £1.80 and beyond.....I don't remember all this share trading.

Its good to know you are still in the land of the living. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/business/saviour-of-a-public-relations-giant-who-started-off-pulling-pints-z6d8wtlww

And yet the price still seems pretty unexciting....even though there has been some good buys in recent time. Does anyone have any views about this share? It has all gone very strangely quiet.

I see Gotrader that you have an interest in PTCM. I just looked them up. The directors seemed to have bought heavily at prices almost double the current market value of the shares. They seem even less exciting than HNT. So what is your interest in them? Why do the shares keep declining. And why are these PR minnows so slow to move?

I have been proclaiming the virtues of this share for of over 6 years while most of the time Die Hard has been belittling my efforts. Then poor little Die Hard back in November last year sensed that the tide was turning and makes a completely unsubstantiated statement "buy......this will be massive". Im sure no one listened to this bland and vacuous advice. I sold 100000 at 45 and bought back at 39. I also have a considerably larger holding and have held through thick and thin.......so ill take no clap trap from Die Hard! And just what did he mean by the word Massive? A 2........5.........10 banger? His comment was vague and useless......just a pathetic attempt to hedge his bets and avoid the shame of my supreme triumph!!