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Wildtiger,

Which broker are you using to short ?

I don't think wildtiger has actually opened a short, he just wants some selling so he can buy in again rinse repeat.

Think Sir Martins average is around £1.30

Pokerchips,

I don't think there were enough shorters to make a 'stuff the shorters' strategy worthwhile. I don't know how the spread sheet has changed so much but we do have a new CFO and Martin had hinted last year he was guiding low this time after so many misses.

I wonder why we still have our avid follower lse2000. Watching us with such eager attention he commented about the closing price within 2 minutes. Interestingly the U/T that set that price was massive £4.5k in value. I think one of the smallest we have seen on this stock.

'lse2000

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Price: 19.10

No Opinion

18.98 p close!19 Jan 2026 16:37

Excellent. Another profit warning due from Martin. Its only matter of when .LOL!'

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Redwineday,

1 or 2 hundred grand probably. Not sure why that is too interesting.

'M&C Saatchi highlighted improved pipeline conversion in the second half following the rollout of its regional growth teams, leading to multi‑discipline wins across several markets.

Despite ongoing macroeconomic headwinds, M&C Saatchi remains confident of delivering profitable growth in 2026, supported by its long‑term value drivers and core markets.'

Lse2000,

If 'never and news before updates' then there is no point you posting here any more is there ?

I take it your 10p target is for you to buy in big ?

Mystic1076,

How different the ad landscape looks now from the inception of the bloody Meerkats

'The advertising phenomenon that is Aleksandr Orlov, the smoking-jacket clad Russian meerkat spokeman for Comparethemarket.com, was originally born out of a desire to find cheaper search terms than "compare" and "market". Aleksandr's creators at the VCCP agency were looking for a way to make the car insurance price comparison website stand out at a time when comparethemarket.com was rated fourth in its sector.

The search word optimisation price for "compare" was going to cost a staggering £12 per click and "market", £5 a click. The idea of using a meerkat to complain about web searches that confused "market" with "meerkat" was already on VCCP's drawing table so it was one short step to look at the optimisation cost of "meerkat" which at the time stood at only 5p per click.'

Over extended on takeover of CP Kelco, now loaded up with debt during a difficult market period and slow down. Plus JP Morgan and a couple of hangers on shorting the stock !

Definitely got some paid posters on here, posting exactly the same despite the rise, is more than a little bit strange. My money is on a an acquirer rather than a shorter. Keep bashing the stock to soften it up for a takeover, if anything happens to the Golden share and also limits the ability of acquisitions via equity raise.

They've got their own separate challenges, notably over 100,000 on payroll and net debt of close to £3.5 Billion

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Lse2000,

Reminds me of the heckler in Happy Gilmour who shouts ' you will not make this put ya jackass'

I guess in the film he was just a plant put there by a competing player.

Lse2000,

WPP not in FTSE100 anymore and SFOR isn't on AIM. Amazing how you can be wrong twice in just one short sentence.

WPP is up 17% in the last 2 weeks, couple of new client wins ( also lost a couple including Magnum Ice Cream) and the pessimism seems to be receding, could we follow suit ?

Papa65,

It looks like he didn't make it through his probationary period, so understandable he wouldn't want it on his CV. Personality clash or maybe he just realised his 420p stock options weren't going to be worth that much !

Papa65,

Can you give us a name ? Do you mean the guy from Denstu who is now head of AI ?

Well the Fed are forecasting US GDP growth of 2.3% in 2026 and are restarting their bond buying program ( AKA Q.E. )

Fed to buy $40 billion in Treasury bills to manage liquidity

www.reuters.com/business/finance/investors-expect-relief-money-markets-fed-resumes-t-bill-purchases-2025-12-10/