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Not a closed period atm.

Is the lack of director buying post update. The CEO made his views clear on the valuation ... But no other director appears to have bought after results. Any views on this...?.

With a black box warning. That's your reason folks.

Brokers can slash or hike price targets in the blink of an eye. In my experience they are often very optimistic towards the top and overly cautious near price lows - just my own view. Best of luck with your Shire holding.

GSK, was partly on concerns about the medium term pipeline. To me it looks like the market is also questioning this. This goes well beyond concerns over dividend sustainability, M&A worry, or the CEO recent performance at the earnings call- admittedly none of which helped.

It's a SETS stock, an electronic order book. This is not an AIM microcap. Today alone over �100 Million of shares( by value) were traded.

It will never get better, it suddenly gets worse!.

Thanks for that Joe. Added a few.

It's easy to underestimate how powerful sentiment can be short term, whether positive or negative. Sometimes there are valid reasons for this, however the market often tends to magnify these, overreacting to the upside, or downside. The best observation I'ver read on the stock market is Ben Graham's famous.. short term the market is a voting machine, longer term it's a weighing machine.. Value does usually out longer term, on one important proviso- the company you buy turns out to be a high quality one.

You don't speak for me, my longer term view on Shire is the opposite of that. Just look at the debt paydown imv.

What some may be missing is a wider sector perspective. There have been some brutal sector de-ratings recently,. GSK is down from well over 17. AZN slumped then rallied sharply again. Novartis over the last 2 years went from near 95 to 68, and now back over 80 again.

There is absolutely no suggestion of that from me, want to make that abundantly clear.

If Shire continue to generate anywhere near current levels of free cash flow, the SP will ultimately re-rate. Would agree on current uncertainties, however risk/reward medium term looks interesting IMV. It may get more interesting!.

This has been mentioned elsewhere - the recent conference call was highly positive - just my take. However, I think everyone may agree that short term the last acquisition has gone down like a lead balloon. That may change, my own view is it will. However as always, reserve the right to be wrong!.

Tom, I would not judge you fullstop, takes guts. And fwiw, It may well pay off handsomely longer term.

10,000 shares? 10,000! Bl..Dy hell.

Tom, you must have been quite unlucky with your buy prices if sitting on a.. huge loss, or have bought a huge amount.

However have no issue with short sellers, or those with a different view. If people get upset about daily share price movements they may be holding too many shares. PE is often a rudimentary valuation measurement, it takes no account of net debt. No one who posts here makes the slightest bit of difference to the Shire share price, worth keeping in mind. Best of luck, whatever your position.

Right so 1 days "bounce" and down yet again. Wonderful Emma, make her a Dame in the NY honours list.

Agree there is some sort of bounce overdue,