RE: Fundamental change?8 May 2022 16:41
As of Friday, OCDO has three trends of immediate interest to me which are, in order of priority, the blue, red and green here:
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To be absolutely clear, the ‘green’ is there as a technicality - OCDO is presently governed by the other two and there is no established rising trend challenging them. The green line simply links OCDO’s current lowest open/closing price to its last ‘lowest’ back in 2017. It is ‘soft’ and will simply get pushed lower until the next ‘bottom’ fixes it more securely. Blue and red, meanwhile, are competing with each other for control of the continuing fall. A reversal will require both to be permanently broken in order to be confirmed.
Away from the chart, the current sp range ( 750-830) was first established four years ago when OCDO signed a partnership agreement with Kroger. The resulting market revaluation created a 45p (8%) gap up from 555 to 700. Since then, M&S entered a JV with OCDO (effectively replacing JL) and there have been other partnerships with Aeon, Auchan, Casino etc, together with acquisitions of Kindred and Haddington robotic companies in the US. There has also been progress regarding the Autostore legal challenge, where all of the 33 claims that originally constituted AutoStore's complaint to the ITC have either been abandoned or rejected for a second time (see the relevant RNS). However, High Court ‘vindication’ is still awaited.
So, whilst it is difficult to envisage a lengthy fall below the four year baseline of 750, I don’t think the possibility of a downward spike to fill the gap can be totally overlooked given the recent speed of descent and the remaining legal uncertainty. For me OCDO remains something of a punt and I’m far from ‘all in’.
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