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fp
Building a base here perhaps ?
I find offered at sub £40 pretty compelling, have added a few more today, assuming the 37.60 divi due xd this month is repeated in the next 3 quarters it's yielding over 3.8% at present, which against bonds looks good to me.

fp
Not impressive, just an anorak, I googled "glaxo price in 2001" and up comes Shares mag with a price, h&l, for every day, reason I could only use Feb 12 not 11 was the 11th must have been a Sunday in 2001....

So runs the headline in Shares magazine.
Brave, but I am a believer, for what that is worth....

CSD
For what it's worth Shares mag is still rating GSK a buy, as opposed to IC who are sellers

CSD
Correct, 20 years ago tomorrow theu had a low of 1834 & a high of 1855.
How is that for being an anorak ?!

fp
That came from Shares magazine not the IC !

fp
I see your point which is well made, but what about a bid from a UK company to create a "Global Champion" rather like British Leyland, BAe, or more recently BZW was referred to as that by the BOE ?
Would AZN do it, I never thought Lloyds would be coerced into buying BoS but they were.....

fairdealer
CNBC ifo ? Given we are doing a"Diana Ross" (I'm still waiting) for the Brains details which were promised I guess we don't hold our breath.

Mark/fp
I have to say that Shares & Russ Mould have a wider audience than the IC, simply because anyone using the Bell platform (lots) has a free copy whereas IC circulation, which has to be be paid for, must be pretty dire these days, it never was big even 30 or so years ago.
Nevertheless we won't know who is right untill the fat lady stops singing, but given UK stocks are perhaps starting to come in from the cold a bid from overseas has to be a possibility ?
I bet if Lord Hanson were still around he'd have assessed it already !

Trent
Of course the real test is when Platinum decides to offload, though considering superdischarge says they have lost a lot of (his?) respect I expect their sale will not come until after their conference call to the Tesla as to how they could have done it better !
Dogecoin perhaps ?
Unless of course they were the stalking horse to see how MARS would react ?
A strategy somewhat frowned upon but very difficult to prove, if so they will sell on to the other party at a later stage.
A slightly more subtle way than how Guinness was taken out, which involved some porridge of course.

fairdealer
A most sobering set of comparisons there.
I am certainly with you on Brains, I could not really see the point & I suspect it has/will hamper any further bids in the near future.
Better for the board than their investors I suspect !

Bearbull in the IC has published a negative article on GSK this morning, online.
Nothing new in it that we are not aware of & with him being a bear almost makes me want to buy a few more if the price is shaken down a little by his followers.

Platinum just issued their RNS

Leas (& others)
Apologies, you may well be right but Thursday is the traditional XD day, though this is far from a normal divi & is hard to see how it can go XD before the vote, so I guess my earlier post was misleadig/incorrect

YoYoMa
Funny how the man who was always steps ahead of everyone else has gone into hiding in his foxhole, maybe he is still working on the name of the beer to be released to salute Captain Tom R.I.P., perhaps Jarel Robinson-Brown IPA could be a start ?
Failing that if he is still working on his cgt submission to max out he & Mrs Tesla's £12,300 free allowances he might still be looking for where all his boasted about profits have gone ?
Meantime the chicken pellets and tinder enthusiasts seem in short supply at present, which is no bad thing.

Lupo
I believe today is the last day you can sell cum divi, they are surely due to go XD at the opening tomorrow, so the 11th is too late ?

Joe
Very true, it always amazes me that many posters seem to hate to hear any caution ever expressed, apparently if it's not about to go into orbit it shouldn't be posted.
Every discussion has 2 sides to it, perhaps when the pandmic allows Kew Gardens to reopen some of these moon shot posters could visit, they would then surely notice that trees don't grow to the sky !

fp
Well the cricket was more successful than GSK today, but there is a lot of bitterness on this board.
If investors feel a poor decision was taken to buy why agonise for weeks or more, rather than cut & make a fresh start?
Bewildering to me

And very good it was too !
Is it available online anywhere yet ?

Jamzyee
But it is not a placing at 10p though is it ?
That was my point all along. 10p is also the price that the convertibles can convert at, now that was a placing as people paid money to buy those to give INX very badly needed liquidity.
As in any market there are 2 points of view, this is encapsulated by 2 of the best performers in the micro/small cap market having taken opposite views, Potts, who has had a great tenure at Herald IT bought some convertibles whilst Dr Jourdan at Amati with an equally stylish performance sold his, rather large lump, at 5p just before the converts came out.
The experience of many investors in the past of the BoD has been that they are desultory and most people have bought the promises & then departed rather poorer.
This could be the reason, of course, why this stock seems to have rather active "pump & dump" operators ?

London
It certainly appears that they have sold about 1.1mill at 100.93 which I guess is broken down into smaller parcels as they were holding them in different funds ?
So it looks as if the buyer was paying 101p.
Interestingly as well Bank of NS has also declared a sale at 101p which would indicate that they sold to the same buyer.
Soon the buyer will reveal his identity, maybe Supercharger decided to turn his Tesla on a sixpence again....