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1pencil,

Very interesting, I was thinking why not lend out shares for the fee as there is no dividend, and hey presto Capital Group are, I guess it means

1) They are likely accumulating

and

2) they are here for the long haul

Neilius,

I put it down to the huge trades on the 12th on AQSE either 20 or 40 million shares depending on how you read it. Now the Newspaper articles plus new presidents words might have triggered it or it was just a coincidence as they have only a week or so left to exercise warrants ?

PageofCups,

Its not goint to be about profit for the Israeli government, its about Energy Security and now they have made foes of all of the Arab oil producing plus Russia world they are going to need their own means of production. What do your Tarrot cards say about it ?

Indy0105,

I agree with you on both counts, however it is from the small horses mouth that guidance has been lowered so they can meet or exceed it. I'm not saying it will happen and I think they need a new CFO too while they are at it !

NigeCo,

He is playing things down as he knows more than anyone the market will punish another earnings miss. Things do seem quite tough in ad-land unless you are Publicis

Onsolidground,

Enterprise Value something like 700 million

Order Book 6000 million

Cash and available facilities could be under 100 million and need more than this to operate hence the last RNS

Anyone care to counter that comment to the Times article ?

All valid points he makes BUT and its a big BUT didn't Premier Oil spend in excess of £200 million on Sealion ? If they had just asked for this guys learned opinion they could have saved a packet and he could have taken a huge fee for saving them hundreds of millions !

I suspect a couple of paired trades but they are enough to close that short interest I mentioned !

Superritch,

Isn't most of that old news, were they talking about UKEF ( which I thin Lizz Truss ) batted away into the long grass. Also pre Navitas, why can't Israel offer bond guarantees to Navitas on grounds of Energy security. I think we have seen that Israel don't give an f about what the rest of the world thinks of their actions so COP 26 won't even be a thought for them.

Regarding The Telegraph I have come to the conclusion that a certain hedgefund has access to its coverage. Makes you think and I would say the timing of said article is interesting. There was just under 3% stock on loan here last time I looked.

SteveJones999,

I don't have any up to date figures but I do know historically HOC had a much higher level of shorts than CEY. So could have been short covering and now they have re loaded and shorted it back down due to POG re-trace ?

Pokerchips,

What were you saying about Marshall Wace not having a reason to reduce their short ?

S4 CAPITAL PLC Marshall Wace LLP 0.49% -0.10% 8 Dec 2023

S4 CAPITAL PLC Systematica Investments Limited 0.49% -0.01% 8 Dec 2023

www shorttracker.co.uk

Buster123,

Yeah I love a P/E of above 80 ! The champagne there might be flowing today but what happens when the bubbles go flat and the long hangover begins !

AIMOilking,

Positive yes but don't these director buys quash rumours of take over or merger with Harbour ?

Pokerchips,

They increased their short position above 60p just 6 days before the trading update, further increasing on the day of the trading update. If US funds are now buying in they might want to lock in those profits, using a quant funds selling to help them do this ( due to low volumes ) would be all the better. Sector wise they have reduced their WPP short from 0.8% on 26 October to 0.69% on 8th November. This has cost them about £8million, the total value of their short on SFOR is only about £1.77million.

Pokerchips,

Its not their style to reduce their short and take a good profit for a few weeks work ?

Allinittogether,

I'm also wondering why the SP spiked up on the very day they took a short position 6th Dec reported next day, were Marshall Wace buying into their selling ?

Allinittogether,

I hope Systematica's quant fund short escapade here mimics their recent performance

THE HUT GROUP

Systematica short position Date THG share price Share price difference

0.50% 8 June 2023 62.1p

0.60% 29 June 2023 78.3p +15.2p

.050% 13 July 20203 97.7p +35.6p

0.48% 27 July 2023 103.9p +41.8p

THG Price today 83.5p price in Sept 2023 67.4p

FUTURE PLC

Systematica short position Date Share price Share price difference

0.50% 31 July 2023 838p

0.60% 29 Aug 2023 750p -88p

0.57% 15 Sept 2023 791p -47p

0.50% 03 Oct 2023 820p -18p

0.49% 10 Oct 2023 923p +85p

Future Plc price to day 601p or 237p profit missed

Pokerchips,

You might be right about clients not wanting to pay as much due to AI but that point is still quite a long way off. In the meantime SFOR should be in a good position to reap the benefits and win business from the legacy non-pure digital holding companies.

Why is that Robina ?

1msn,

Yes I am with you there. Clearly the Algos have changed here last couple of days but I am struggling to see a difference in patterns.