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3.71p actually - the bargain of a lifetime imho!

The value for my average of 3.77p ?

List of licences completed, dewatering on a downward curve, gas flow on upward curve from a single well that is costing us very little irrespective of when Botswana/Australia open for business, Lefoko giving us a pre-emptive PPA out of good will , Masissi backing CBM , the fact that were have not bust despite no income , short list of poles/wires contractors waiting in the wings, funding for such expected as soon as we need it (Q1 hopefully but if Covid problems persist , then Q2 or even Q3 are not a threat due to TG budgetting skill {and directors willingness to work for a huge pay cut}.

How many of these could you or idea of a new chairman have realised? Solar is also been touted with the suggestion we may "buy" some more land to house it. And Donk your questioning another poster over a pedant "buy/purchase word" was stupid. Millions of leasehold properties have been bought but have both mortgages and covenants on them - and all their owners are going to die anyway! None of them consider that they have really bought the property until they get the deeds ... but they are free to sell it so it is theirs in that respect. I suspect TLOU want to lease the land or the rights to use it for solar but you knew that when you were so rude!
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Winni, I don't give a stuff about Whizzer's holding , the thing that leaves a sour taste in my mouth is that potential new investors will very likely view his posts and not realise he has tourettes! As a consequence they may go elsewhere instead of supporting the price here.

Anyone with half a brain will have realised years ago that it is the trolls that oblige me to support the board because there are too many (100% less a handful of supporters and trolls) passive supporters on chat rooms. The supporters clearly exist or our few placements would have failed!

Money is under control Whizzer - give credit where credit is due for X sake!
How many CEO's wishes they were in Tlou's position now?
This is just retail, add engineering companies and the leisure industry and the list is huge - how many employees have lost their jobs? Bet some wish they'd had TG as their boss!
https://www.companyrescue.co.uk/guides-knowledge/news/retail/

Good to see some sensible posts on here from Damo and DTE.

The anti-board campaigners are an enigma! They criticise the board for not being able to do the impossible in this crazy epidemic and then dumbfound me by suggesting they won't be negotiating with Orapa because they haven't funded their poles and wires to join the grid!
Defeatist?

They have not met the contractors from several countries who have tendered for blatantly obvious reasons, yet financial institutions are expected to have forced money into our hands months or is it years ago?
It is insane! Cart before the horse!

In a matter of months, if the vaccines are proven against the South African strain of Covid, channels will open for meetings. I don't want the parties involved to risk their lives to satisfy a few ******s who are impatient to see an immaterial sp (currently) rising!

Once the money is needed, the traps will open and loads of pentup energy will be released. I'm expecting a very fast race from healthy dogs who have been locked in their kennels for too long. My hopes lie in BDC producing the funding and I'm betting that is TG's wish too!
Since Covid it looks reasonable to assume that with Lefoko and Massisi on board it could be a formality and TLOU will be all set for decades to come provided the gas/water behaves itself and TLOU is profitable.

It now looks like 2021 could be one hell of a year! After several years of hell!

Jaffjoon, that reminds me the Sunday morning I spent touring Vegas to try and find Bournemouth's result the day before. I ended up in Circus Circus at 9am , tickled at the idea of having a 25c Budweiser so early on a Sunday. There was a guy at the bar who chatted me up. I was guarded at first, thinking he was tring to bum a drink from me, until I put it in perspective , 25c is hardly worth the effort!

Turned out he had been a session musician with the Beach Boys and others and was reasonably successful until his marriage went tits up. They sold their house and he was left with a million dollars after everything was settled. He cheered himself up by taking 2 prostitutes to Hawaii and they screwed him in everyway until the money ran out and left him destitute. When asked if he still had his guitar , he said it was in hock and he could get it back if his life turned round.

I hope it did, if it was true .... took my mind off football results until I found an English newspaper a day or two later if I remember rightly.

Interesting that a director bought at 10p above PH sell price. Encouraging that he felt the price was too low to pass up , and also that PH did not offer some of his holding to fellow directors. If he had I guess it would have been so complicated because they would know the price would drop as it did and they'd be compromised over whether to sell and be accused of insider trading.

I'm disappointed in PH, how many more times is he going to screw a recovering share price so many shareholders are locked into their losses?

I wonder what he's doing with the cash? Buying Bitcoin perhaps?

I think is readable compared to the RNS - I thought capital letters were bad manners i.e. shouting!

Wed 17 February 2021 07:07 | A A A
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(Sharecast News) - Peter Hargreaves has sold £300m of shares in Hargreaves Lansdown, leaving him owning less than 20% of the company he co-founded 30 years ago.

Hargreaves said he had sold 19,543,974 of the investment platform's shares at £15.35 each to institutional investors. After the offering the self-made billionaire owns 19.8% of the FTSE 100 group's shares.

Before the placing Hargreaves owned about 24% of the company he started from a spare bedroom in Bristol in 1981. Hargreaves Lansdown shares fell 7.1% to £15.35 at 08:42 GMT and were the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index.

Hargreaves has now sold almost £1bn of the company's shares in the past year after unloading £550m in early February 2020. At the time he said the sale was part of his long-term plan to diversify assets and that he would remain a substantial shareholder in Hargreaves Lansdown.

The placing was announced after the market closed on Tuesday. The shares were little changed from a year earlier before the announcement after recovering from a low of £15.58 at the market low in March.

TLOU needs to progress and then there will be no stopping the price rising.
Progress is getting a decent contractor to install the poles and wires, that imho needs face to face meetings.
That needs the parties to be able to meet i.e. travel! , once the countries are open , and that looks possible now there are vaccines. Going bust before that date is not my dream ending! 14 months ago is not the real world today!

I'm looking forward and I see light at the end of the tunnel!

""Going bust is basically where the business cannot continue in its present form, as it owes too much money and the creditors want it back! These creditors can be; HMRC, Banks or other Lenders, Trade Suppliers."

You want to risk to joining in eh?
TLOU are solvent which I think is incredible considering we have not starting earning anything over how many years?
You need to join the real world!

And the business case is stronger now than at any time - the quote from above is followed by -
"See this page on Help for Companies affected by Coronavirus. It will be updated daily.
Displaying results 25 to 36 out of 567" - soon to be 568 after you get your wicked way!"

TG is looking after us!

Thanks Donk, my mission on here is complete until Australia and Botswana open their airports to the world so business can return to somewhere near normal.

Taking funds that cannot be utilised now is akin to a football team borrowing money to take these players at a fraction of their usual wages on loan for the next couple of months to produce a fantastic team for fans on paper , but what use on the football field?
Virgil Van Dijk – knee (summer)
Joe Gomez – knee (summer)
Joel Matip – ankle (summer)
Diogo Jota – knee (potentially February, back in training)
Aguerro etc etc etc

Whizzers demands for news would see the football manager repeatedly telling the world when the doctors think they'll be fit to resume! And that is where Tony is! Plugging on with what he have , dewatering #4 within budget for as long it takes or until business is possible again.

He is on 25% of his salary until the situation changes ..... do you want to hear that over and over again? He could of course do as some request, and open TLOU to every scammer in Africa!

I am sure there are loads of offices to rent for a scammer to hire , in between phoning Britain with bogus calls from BT and Amazon and others in an attempt to get our bank details, and set up Zoom to do bogus deals with mugs in Australia who cannot check them out!

If TG had something to tell us , he would!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-idUSKBN2AD02D

Just taken a look and see what you mean.
All of them are after-close so I guess they were limit sells at £16.47+ which were processed after the end of day auction? If I'd paid less I might have had tried it too because they'll likely be able to buy back cheaper next week if dividend chasers have another one to target. They'll hope they drop a lot which is a calculated risk ..... one I'm not prepared to take so I'm here until October at least.

jaffjoon, it panned out as planned and anyone who bought below £16.40 could have had their cake and eaten it.
I'm not convinced the post dividend drop is going to happen tbh - there is an article on LSE share news which supports a rise. Maybe the days of £20 post dividend prices could return. £17+ by October looks nailed.

"Hargreaves Lansdown ups dividend as younger investors join
Mon, 1st Feb 2021 07:37

(Sharecast News) - Hargreaves Lansdown increased its interim dividend as the company reported a 10% rise in first-half profit and attracted younger investors.
The FTSE 100 investment platform's pretax profit rose to £188.4m from £171.1m in the six months to the end of December as revenue increased 16% to 299.5m.

Hargreaves Lansdown attracted £3.2bn of net new business compared with £2.3bn a year earlier and £7.7bn in all of the previous financial year. Assets under administration rose 16% from the end of the previous financial year to 120.6bn.

The company raised its interim dividend 6% to 11.9p a share and said it would pay special dividends when it had spare cash.

First-half profit was driven by a 123% increase in equity trading as investors responded to news about Covid-19 and the UK's Brexit trade deal. The company also said younger customers were supporting growth with 47% of new clients aged between 30 and 54.

Hargreaves Lansdown said trading in January was similar to other lockdown periods with strong dealing volumes, "robust" net new business and new client numbers.

Chris Hill, Hargreaves Lansdown's chief executive, said: As our client numbers continue to grow, we are finding that younger people are taking a greater interest in investing for the future, with the average age of our clients continuing to fall. Covid-19 has underpinned the importance of financial resilience.""

Spread was £16.435 to £16.475 (up 1p on the ex-dividend date sp) - shame it is 50p below my average price or I could have had the dividend and a profit as well.

You are welcome, jaffjoon.

The 11p interim has not been attractive enough to maintain £17 or resurrect it. Hopefully the price is not going to drop much either.
I'll let it run unless the price reaches £17 tomorrow - it should be out of the question but odder things accompany this share.
October's dividend might be better. I had my chance this time to take mid £17's but was too lethargic :O( or greedy :O)

Tried avast browser (firefox is my default) which did not have my login details!
My ultimate post to TLOU appeared!
Then I logged in and it disappeared!
It has to be some sort of cache problem, because the number of posts is 3 or 4 to match the view.

I have cleared data for lse but imy problem may be visible now, jlovie.

My post has appeared here but if you look at my history the third post is on TLOU.
Click on TLOU and it is not!
On my computer at least! Really weird?

https://www.youinvest.co.uk/market-research/LSE:HL?tab=6
gives an idea of half the holdings.

From memory Peter Hargreaves held 50% of the shares which was reduced to 25% after he reviewed situation about a year ago, and few more in the meantime?