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Stock Market is no place for nervous investors. Move all your money into a bank and earn your circa 1% interest or buy Premium Bonds if you want to be a tad more daring. For me, happy to be invested in a FTSE 100 company with a growing market, esp IVF (over 8 million IVF children have been born, and over 2.5 million cycles are being performed every year worldwide) and a dividend that is growing year on year and matches most bank rates.

Exactly, and if Costain can gain circa 10% today by issuing results that confirmed their profits warning in June and revised FY estimates, then NMC who has seen its share price plummet based on no profit warning (on the contrary has told shareholders an already healthy forecast has improved), then I look forward to tomorrows figures with optimism rather than trepidation

Bull target
Analysts have generally stayed optimistic, and on average see the stock reaching 3,758 pence in the next 12 months.

Here's some more info about the event

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/08/19/1903539/0/en/CBRS-Alliance-to-Launch-OnGo-Commercial-Services-in-3-5-GHz-CBRS-Band.html

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Stick to de-ramping Burford on AIM and close your short out quick here util

What do you think?

KNOW YOUR OPPONENTS AQR who have led the short attack have done so on the basis of a report from "The Analyst" based on a forecast of slowing growth and rising debt; their shorting target appears to be 16.60 hTTps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hedge-funds-target-gulf-hospitals-operator-nmc-jth9rr2pc# This report is at odds with the Mar 19 Full Year RNS which stated that "management remains confident with near to medium term outlook, as reflected by the guidance of continued strong growth provided for 2019 (+22-24% YoY revenue growth and +18-20% YoY EBITDA growth)". On the debt front, at 2018 year-end net debt-to-EBITDA stood at 3.1x (2017: 2.9x). The outlook for net debt in the Full Year RNS was for Year-end net-debt to EBITDA to further reduce to 2.2-2.4x. Since the EOY RNS, the closing of KSA Joint Venture transaction and 2019 earnings guidance update end of May upgraded the EBITDA guidance:to USD 575-585m (previous guidance: USD 566-576m). We have subsequently been informed on the 8th August by RNS that NMC notes the recent share price weakness and confirms that it expects to report that, after a good performance in the first half of 2019, trading in the business remains in line with management expectations on all key metrics including revenue, EBITDA, net income, leverage, cash flow conversion and working capital. Full year guidance remains as previously stated. This resulted in Barclays lifting its price target to 4,275p from 4,100p on Friday 9th August, saying first-half results later in the month should be a positive catalyst, particularly after recent share price weakness. Add in the confidence shown by the CEO purchase of shares just before the close period and I personally would rather be long than short on this share at the current share price with just 3 trading days left to the Half Year results but DYOR

EGM not too far away I suspect. Meanwhile commercial worth of Federated Wireless promises to be considerable

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/delays-not-affecting-5-year-cbrs-ran-forecast-dell-oro?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRsa1pURmpZbVpsWkdRMSIsInQiOiJxVE9VZkRlVGRYWmxQUjBkanJiRmo5ZlZHQkRrZUR

Correct link available now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007nkc/points-west-lunchtime-news-16082019

Sorry wrong link, look at BBC West (Bristol) lunchtime news 13:30 for today once available.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007nkc

Good point extrader, need to wait for the graphene revolution to lighten the load. In the meantime could always consider balloons, after all plenty of hot air on this BB and spare ballast to offload as well. Eh, what, nnnooooooooo didn't mean meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

LOL, know what you mean

I have just the aircraft for you Wellwell

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/15/20806776/norway-electric-plane-battery-crash-fjord-jet-fuel-avinor

Who said I was confident? So far Bigdish has over promised and under delivered but they now have a stronger team in place and need to be given the time to show they can turn things around. September for me is make or break, the numbers of restaurants will either accelerate exponentially in which case happy days, or they wont and we will be into the Christmas season and talking about next year before any positive signs start to appear. What I do find tedious is counting whether there are one, two or three less restaurants at this point in time because it is meaningless.

Applesauce you tedious toad the time to judge the success or otherwise of the recruitment campaign and concept is September onwards when the tourism season has finished, there are plenty of empty tables to fill, and the territory managers are in place and trained endof!

You're welcome Champer88, looking fwd to the results on the 22nd (only 38.5 trading hours left tick tock).

Like the big buy from the boss just before the closed period leading up to results. Be interesting to see whether other Director buys follow post results once the shackles are off.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/funds/11453951/Jim-Slater-This-is-the-most-reliable-sign-shares-will-rise.html

The most reliable early guide is substantial buying by the directors. They are not able to buy or sell shares in their company during “closed periods” – the two months before the announcement of the half-year and full-year results. They are also prohibited from buying or selling shares if they possess any undisclosed inside information such as news of a possible takeover, a significant share issue or the win or loss of a particularly large contract. In the months surrounding the results, the directors’ dealings that are usually the most meaningful are those that are just before the start of the closed period or just after it has finished.

If the directors are buying before the results the company is likely to exceed expectations and if they are selling it is likely that the results will disappoint.

Courtesy of Alexka1 on ADVFN

https://twitter.com/EStockpicking/status/1161362573935222784 check out this tweet and attachment, great views and opinion on NMC stock. I agree 100% with the huge short squeeze theory. Ratios are screaming out. I did some research and the ratios are tremendously high for a large cap (days to cover ratios and short interest ratios versus volumes that trades). To quote: '' Why I believe it will strongly rally - expect a ?MASSIVE SHORT SQUEEZE - NMC? Short interest is 23%? of the free float. Freefloat is 85.6mio shares, so that is 19.699mio shares that are sold short. With a volume of less than 1mio shares per day this is a ?day-to-cover ratio of >19 days.? This is without accounting for the buy-and-hold investors, that won’t sell. This is ?HUGE? by any standards and the biggest indicator of the massive short squeeze to come. Please do some research on these key ratios and examples of previous cases and you will understand why I mean. Coupled with this, insiders have been buying (CEO - He is an employee - bought over £1.8mio at 24.95 in end of May). Don't we assume that insiders know better than any outsiders or any HF based in the US of what’s going on with the company? Chairman, also an insider, just repaid over £130mio GBP of loans, and released part of his NMC pledge. Don't we assume he is comfortable with NMC and its prospects and that he has more knowledge than any outsider hedge fund? So you have a company with strong fundamentals, backed by analysts from the top banks globally, backed by its insiders (CEO, Chairman), with positive results expected and a bright outlook, that has its short interest over 23% of free float and clearly attacked by short sellers. ?This attack has accelerated prior to the results in 10 days. Clearly a panic mood and preparing a way to get out of their position. As Citi mentions In its report this week, ?''?Active shorts might be opportunistically aggressive in their selling now.’' Isn’t it a sign that this stock is maybe being pushed down for no reasons for the short sellers to create a panic and cover their shorts? All the ratios and technicals and fundamentals are screaming out to the beginning of a massive short squeeze. ?I have never seen such a high days-to-cover ratios and short interest in a large cap company. This is just waiting for a positive catalyst, which hopefully will be the results. These should trigger a spike, short covering and hopefully trigger stop losses for the late short sellers, even if in line with expectations. Thin liquidity will help in this huge spike i am forecasting. I would expect some of the shorts to start covering this week and early next week, which would support the stock ahead of the results. My target: £3000 by early end of August/Early September. ''

Just had to reread the summary from May 19 in the FT in conjunction with the RNS published on 8th Aug from the company confirming the good news re uplift in earnings; bring on the results next week :)

https://www.ft.com/content/5b9e9140-812c-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b

Abu Dhabi’s NMC Healthcare raises full-year guidance
Private hospital and care provider finalises joint venture with Saudi Arabia

Shares in NMC Healthcare rose as much as 6 per cent on Tuesday after the company raised its full-year guidance, reflecting its joint venture with Saudi Arabia’s state-run pension fund plus consolidation of an IVF group.

The private healthcare provider raised its revenue guidance for 2019 to an upper level of $2.54bn with a lower limit of $2.5bn. Earlier guidance, announced in October, had an upper limit of $2.465bn. It forecast its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation will be between $575m and $585m, compared with a previous range of $566m-576m.

Shares rose 6 per cent in London trading before shedding some of their gains to trade up 4 per cent at midday. They are down 7.5 per cent this year overall.

The private hospital and care provider, which has a market capitalisation of £5.3bn, was the first from Abu Dhabi to list on the London Stock Exchange when it had its initial public offering in April 2012.

The FTSE 100-listed company said on Tuesday it had finalised its NMC KSA joint venture agreement with Hassana Investment Company, the investment arm of Saudi Arabia’s state-run pension fund.

“I personally view this joint venture as one of the top landmark events in the history of NMC since its inception,” said Prasanth Manghat, chief executive of NMC Healthcare. “We see many opportunities of leveraging growth,” he added, saying that the group views the future “with considerable optimism”.

“We have a clear vision for transforming NMC KSA into one of the most dominant players in the country,” he said. “We will rapidly implement our strategic plan, bringing higher value services in the country, such as IVF, cosmetics and leveraging our association with Boston and Cincinnati children hospitals to strengthen paediatrics in KSA.”

A clever bugger would have spelt know correctly