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I'm not really into blogs. I've ben in this share for the past five years.....I will wait a bit longer yet and see what happens. The water is so muddied with political and economic factors at the moment..........but I can only surmise that Matthew Freud thinks something is afoot. Let's hope so !!!

This share is the most boring share I have ever held! It's as excitng as watching paint dry! But hey........don't be discouraged lets hope we get some positive news soon.

People look East the time is near........for the crowning of the year!

Who decides upon the spread and who profits by it? Sometimes it has been almost as much as 5% What are the motives for varying it?

I guess the most important role of Myners will be to recrut and appoint the new Chief Exec.......as I have said, if it is perceived as a good appointment, then that could give a dramatic uplift to the share price. It all looks quite positive going forward.......but he cannot afford to balls it up!

it seems to me that all these directors get paid enormous sums of money, but do we the shareholders. know what they get paid for? What is their job spec? How do we hold them accountable if we do not know if they are succeeding in their particular role or task? It is just too much of a cosy blanket to simply say the' company needs to increase it's profits'. I'd like to know what is being done right now and what steps are being taken to ensure share holder value.

Yes, you need to be very patient with this one.......but hopefully some good news will be in the pipe line. News of a new Chief Executive Officer will help boost the price, plus the possibility of new digital orders from Asia and around the world, plus the effects of the economic upturn and the effect of Lord Myners. Just what he actually does for his money I cannot imagine.......but he is very experienced and a responsible safe pair of hands......I hope he starts cracking the whip and pushing to get more orders! Maybe some of my other readers out there can throw some light on the role of Lord Myners in the company.

Gosh! With a 7%+ spread, you wil have to pay near to 60p for these shares. What is going on?

........yes it is all very worrying that the bull market is so mature..........but the market does what it wants to do........and it can go to really stupid valuations before popping! I don't think that valuations are stupid enough yet.......and may not be until May 2015. There could be a correction...........but with UK elections in 2015 and USA .elections in 2016.......things will only get better. And it looks as if some QE may be on the way in the EU before the end of the year.

But analysts at Peel Hunt are more interested in what the exit of Lord Chadlington means. "We expect the market will start to speculate on the breakup of Huntsworth, post Lord Chadlington’s departure," says the broker. A 20% stake in Huntsworth taken by Chinese PR giant Blue Focus with whom the UK firm subsequently set up a joint venture in Asia certainly adds spice. So, too, does the 3% stake, now worth almost £5 million, acquired by canny investor Matthew Freud. Chairman Lord Myners is confident. He bought 100,000 shares at 46p each after Monday's news. Peel Hunt has placed its forecast and target price under review. "Once the speculation has faded the company will still face important structural issues," it says. It will indeed. Elsewhere, Numis Securities has cut forecasts for this year by 15%, and now expects adjusted pre-tax profit of £15 million, giving adjusted earnings per share of 4p. At 51p, Huntsworth shares trade on almost 13 times forward earnings, dropping to just over 11 in 2015. Numis still reckons the shares are "materially undervalued" and sticks with its 60p target price. There's that dividend, too. Huntsworth kept the interim payout at 1p and there's a prospective dividend yield of 7.4%. Quite what the new boss will think of that level of payout, however, remains to be seen.

Yes, and one article reported that the last time he shelved out so much doe on shares was when he bought some shares at 20p and sold a £2.00. Just imagine if HNT went to £4.00! Nothing is impossible. It is fair to say that the company has had bit of bad luck with the pound being so strong and the exchange rates not in their favour.......but that can change.......and presumably the chief executive will not be paid so much..........plus more increased revenues from the digital improvements and extra business from Asia.........and even an upturn in Europe.....it could all add up to an increase of profits of 20% by next spring.....and a share price of 80p+ I don't need to listen to all these useless brokers.......I can do it on the back of an envelope.....most likely as Mathew Freud did!

It was never really spelt out who and how and what the benefits would be to Huntsworth. Did the company expect to get Chinese business? I guess Blue focus does not have the contacts or presence in the West that HNT has. With so much of the company's profits dependent on Europe, this seems to be the crucial factor, but why no new business yet from China? I would have hoped that they would have come up with something by now....... but nota hint of it! And what is Blue focus getting out of it? I hope the company survives long enough to see the benefit of 'chasing the Dragon'.......at least Mathew Freud seems to think so.

Huntsworth like-for-like revenues fall First half revenues at global public relations and healthcare communications group Huntsworth fell to £83.1m - a like-for-like decline of 1.7% and a constant currency drop of 2.4%. Profit...

..........it's ALWAYS jam tomorrow..........or maybe.........next year.........or not at all

Maybe you will find the answer to your question on Monday morning. I should imagine that it would be very useful to acquire a company with so many footholds in Europe, the Middle East and America. These are areas that the Far East need to expand into and HNT provides a good well established network. In the present economic climate..........there can be no better time to buy...........the stock is down.........and boom time lies ahead in the next two years.

On thing that I find ominous........is what it was that drove the excellent Sally Withey into a state of ill health. We were not informed of the precise illness........but could it have been nervous exhaustion, having so well managed the purse strings of the company in the last five years only to find herself over ruled by powers from on high within the company? I just don't know...........but I am not without imagination! Then there was the big fall in the share price. As I have said.....some people seem to have faith in the company......but there are still a lot of unanswered questions!

Ok Tom, so if you expect the results to be so bad, why has Matthew Freud just bought 9.5 million shares? Why didn't he wait till after the announcement of the results? For sure he will have had his ear to the ground.......and will have asked a number of questions before making his investment. But if you are right........then maybe my prediction of 35p will come true. Oddly though, shares often rise on bad news. Also, a typical trick is to play tings down in a previous announcement.........and then reveal results that are not as bad as were previously feared!

I hope you are right.............but what news are you expecting on 15th August? Let us brain storm on what MAY lie in he future. I had hoped for giagantic wins of business from the wonderful and noble Chinese people.........and further improved business from the USA and Middle East........even a slight pick up of trade from Europe. A large gain of business in gigantic China would herald massive profits for the future and send the SP soaring into the statisphere. The excellent Lord Chadlington said last year that the alliance with Blue Focus would be "transformative" and that share holders would be very pleased with what had been achieved..........lets hope these are not empty words!

Matthew Freud's recent purchase of almost 10 million HNT shares is at worst an amazing endorsement of the value and potential of the company.......and at best..........a mind boggling assertion that this company's share price is destined to go through the roof in the next couple of years!!!! I would suggest m' learned friends, that you ignore this observaion at your considerable financial peril.

For your consideration m' learned friends: "The Freud Communications founder has acquired 9,700,000 shares in Huntsworth through Rock Nominees. While the share price at the time of purchase is not disclosed, the company was trading at about 41p on 30 July, when the transaction was made, which would indicate a payment of about £4m. Freud, who is married to Rupert Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth, has developed something of a habit of buying personal stakes in companies he feels are undervalued. Earlier this month Huntsworth’s share price plummeted 18% after the company said that its results for the first half of this year would fall below investor expectations. Huntsworth will report half-year results in August. In 2009 Freud bought a similar-sized stake in M&C Saatchi, the ad agency founded by brothers Charles and Maurice Saatchi. He bought the shares at close to 20p and sold them at more than 200p several years later, making a multi-million profit."