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Croft,

The claim was always in Euros it was rumoured it stood at $250m then $300m plus interest

Pearls its just this site that was showing messed up bid and ask prices, nothing to read into it unfortunately.

Micheal2021,

While you've got your crystal ball out, can you tell us if we will get an RNS today, what time and will it say we have lost or 60 day extension.
If you are wrong will you apologise for your post or just change your name to Michael 2022.

Looks like a buy algo got switched on around the US opening time, Publicis also up just now.

jonny796,

I guess it depends if you thing the future is data driven analytics and targeted digital advertising.
Or if you think one of the longest serving FTSE CEOs knows what he is doing.

Market_Dealer

They were offering 8.82 for anything over 15,000 shares but only 8.66 for 15,000 shares or under. This morning, could mean the MMs want shares or the brokers has f'ed up as usual here. Just a bit strange to offer a premium for a larger sell.

Caravan,

They have grown revenue from £54.8 million EBITDA £4.7 million in 2018 to circa £827 million ( based on Q1 22 revenue ) with EBITDA now guided to circa £120 million. Thats EBITDA growth of over 25 times in 4 years with a pandemic.

I would struggle to call that jam tomorrow.

Very large buy just gone through on WPP, on todays weakness. Let see what this afternoon brings.

WouldBGatsby,

You are right and looking much further out, there could be every possibility that this will surpass the previous highs.
Re SMS non stock purchase. I think his best plan now is to go for a NASDAQ listing and fund raise at the same time, it would help if he were to put a few more million $ of his own money into the new listing and fund raise. I see this as the only way he can continue on his rapid acquisition program, and he doesn't have time to wait for SP here to recover due to his age.

NigeCo,

I would hope just the NYSE listing, if we get a generous conversion rate say based on the share price volume weighted average for example, rather than the USD GBP exchange rate. The 200 day VWAP is currently around 320p 100 day VWAP is around 220p. We would do nicely from the conversion and the shorts will be screwed. Double bubble.

NigeCo,

I can't believe he hasn't bought some. My conclusion is that he is now going for an NYSE listing, its going to help the stock a lot more if he buys heavily into that listing.

Baileybear1234,

I don't think its been in auction this morning so sounds like they couldn't get a live price for a second or two, that or a technical glitch.
I reckon that 80,000 sell was a stop loss hunted for then hit. If you look at the trade tape at 8.05 am you can see how they did it.

covgaz,

This got to 44p on pure speculation if I remember correctly.

Allinittogether,

Purely as a rough approximation. I would say a potential 12m of the 27m plus stock on loan could have been bought back, although I doubt it is this much reason being, its easy to be brave using other peoples money especially if you are in profit.
Looking at the volume and some reporting on www morningstar com. It looks like approx 31m shares were sold up to end July and 8.1m bought. Interestingly with Blackrock taking 2.7m of those.
Total volume was approx 57 million in the 7 trading days after the announcement up to end July. In August daily volume has ranged from 1.2m to 4.1m. I have assumed around a 60/40 buy sell split.
www morningstar com/stocks/xlon/sfor/analysis

covgaz,

Good point but I think there could be a nice equilibrium around the 9p range whereby there is not quite enough profit to exercise the warrants.

Did anyone buy any SFOR yesterday ?
up another 8.5% today

NigeCo,

It was 4.95% stock on loan at end July up from 4.36% at end June so I make that 27.7 million shares

NigeCo,

Yes but I only get access to the end of monthly figures.
I will post an update on here as soon as I know. But we won't get that figure for end of August until a few days into September.
As I said before it is the gross amount of stock leant out unlike short tracker which only shows a net short position above 0.5%.
I think its quite telling there aren't any large short positions above 0.5% as it looks like no one in the know wants to bet against Sir Martin Sorrell, I know I wouldn't.

Manunited31,

Still plenty more to come. Proof I feel that its the shorts closing is the fact WPP is down 1% today whilst we are up over 6%

big-blue,

He is eluding to medication.