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Have to admit that the whole SER saga despite coming out of it in profit frustarted me a whole lot. Not only did I spend far too much time on the forum, although entertaining I had to work out who I could trust and who to say it bluntly were bullshitters (quite a lot of them). i did get some very good tips on other shares but also got some real duds. I fyou want to play in small shares you need the time to do the research and follow them on a daily basis and I havent had that time the last few years. i am trading very little these days but hope to return to more active trading in a few years time when I step down from work. My money has been mainly in bigger shares taht I bought during the last recession, building companies whihc have done great, some banks which have doen OK but stagnated and very good performers such as easy jet, IHG hargreaves and otehrs. A few disappointments including BP. My main investment has been HRG (AIM) who has performed spectacular for me (my average is 11), still undervalued but will require a takeover which could happen anytime to get to teh 100 I am waiting for, pays good dividends and I have a lot of them. and tehn I hold onto a number of smaller companies I bought at the time such as NTOG, XTR, SOU (which has done well) but sold off others such as SAR (got tired of waiting). if you have some good ideas always willing to listen. Need to spend teh ISAS for me and the wife so 30K available. Good luck with SER, I cant see even the glimmer and it infuriates me that still there people making money by trampling on all ex shareholders

Nice to see you again, hope your other investments are doing well. Yes, I was one of the few that saw what Ellerton was doing at an early stage and took some flack for it :-). Luckily made money on Sefton even before that. I was then duped any Dan before he ran away with a lot of money and came clean on his past. From then on it has just been one long slide, with nothing left worthwhile in the company and for me what we are seeing now is just the vultures trying to grab the last bit of meat of the bone. I would be happy to hear from anyone a scenario whereby the company could get back to paying shareholders even 1 tenth of what they invested. I have lost track of how many shares are now in circulation but let us just say 8 Billion, so just to get back to a value of a tenth of a penny, teh company has to be worth 8 million. That would mean roughly 50 times what we are now and there is nothing to indicate taht here is anything going on that could even double what we are worth today which would get our shares to be worth a 250 th of a penny. Now you can judge what you paid for teh shares and see how far you aware, it is ridiculous to think there is any future for teh company or for our shares. Even more so if we have to pay 12500 every 3 months to Dani Levi for the "loan". How can that in any way be justified other than emptying the coffers of the company in a legal but totally immoral way. I hope he reports that income as salary to the authorities as it is clearly a benefit in kind at 100% interest. If you want to keep hoping , good luck, luckily no new innocent investors can be lured into this mess by the irresponsible posting and ramping that went on here for years including by some of those who have now become "directors"

I see this old dead parrot has had a new life. doesnt mean that I believe it has any value or ever will for old shareholders. There is absolutely no chance that any normal shareholder will ever recoup any of their losses or teh company will ever again become a viable oil company. What it does seem to be doing is emptying the last resources into the pockets of the old boys club, Levi, bailey and some of teh other names that have been involved previously. Just look at 2 facts: 1) the new directors have each been awarded 300 million shares for......nothing. First day of stepping in as directors 5% (or just below,) of the company each. if there is 150k left in the company that is around 7000 pounds present which can be paid out when the company finally wounds up. of course Levi has been awarded 800. million shares so well over 10% of the company so clsoe to 20.000 pounds will be his. 2) Levi lent the company 50.000 pounds in April. This loan is now worth 62.500 pounds 3 months later so is at 100% interest, much higher than Wonga or any other loan sharks around. Another great way of whitewashing money and emptying the last remaining embers out of Sefton. This company have always attracted greedy selfish directors and owners and it looks like even on it's dead bed there are people raiding the teh last crumbs! RIP Sefton, time to bury this corpse, has been dead for a long time.

somebody went in and bought 1 million shares yesterday which isn't easy since there are so few in general circulation? What do they know? Slow creep back up to 70 level and then we will see!

You know you can find all this information on the site, if you click on Financial diary above it gives you the dates, no date yet for final dividend but last year it was 21 november payout. NO divi announced yet, last year it was about 12 but there was also a special divi of about 12

The ex divi date has now passed and no further drops , very odd the timing of the drop but hopefully now going the way and we can look forward to a healthy dividend.

ex div is on Wednesday 29th so the recent drop is totally inexplicable. great opportunity to buy or maybe one of the suitors will jump in and get his company at a bargain basement price. Lots of deals in the UK corprate travel scene this year. Buyers from USA and Australia positioning tehmselves, this could be one that coudl rasie one of them to be truly global. beginning to beleive somebody could get this under 100 which compared to recent deals would be cheap.I have always said I will hold out for 100, might now let it go for 95, but the pric at the momnet for one of the most solid companies is crazy. at least we have the dividend to look forward which will pay for this years cruise!

yes, seems strange, could be something he has doen or something as innocent as illness, but he doenst have a very high profile so dont think it will have any effect

only down 3% now, will take another hit later in day when US opens and when people realise what the compensations are going to cost, My tip is over 100 million besides lost income

One company which might not have been notice who surely have played a role in this debacle is Amadeus It Grou Share Price (0P2W). They p[rovide all the systems for BA and although we dont know the details they surely will also drop and BA will most likely try and get recompense for some of tehir losses from Amadeus. Astonishing that still this morning nobody from BA is able to come on TV and expalin. tHis is the PR disaster from hell.

my guess is 8-10 % down tuesday morning, maybe more. this is bad on so many levels: 1) shoudlnt happen at all 2) Once it happened it wasnt handled very well 3) comes on top of the luggage problems just alst week 4)Thousands of people will speak bad about BA for a long time to come 5) the cost will be huge, lets say 400.000 passengers averaging 300 pounds in cost and compensation, that's 120 million and taht without counting lost revenue from one of the most profitabel weekends of teh year and future lsot revenue from peopel deciding not to book BA which will be costly but only short term Now it depends if BA is able to convince peopel that tehy were not hacked and that they come clean with what happened and taht it cant happen again. this could take some time to recover so anything less than 5-7% drop first thing and I will be shorting Dont really see a way to get out before Tuesday, sometimes if a share is also on Wall street you cna a balancing trade there but it is also clsoed tomorrow for Memorial day!

somebody just bought 100.000 shares, very lucky to get it at SP 70. hard to find that many shares at all in this share. wonder if one of the 2 top shareholders is growing their holdings?

and not a bad sign taht a director buys at these levels on teh first opportunity he has after the announcement of results. will be interested if anyone else ahs view s on the results?

and my prayers were heard even if it hasnt reflected in the price yet. All indicators were Positive, profits up, dividends up, net debt down. Even more encouraging were the fact that Fraedom is now producing real profits with very good margins. Also teh forecasts for future years are more optimistic than we have seen before. The annual savings of 17 million in costs should shine through and the focus on growth in profits rather overall revenue is very welcome. Also nice to see that we have money now to invest in buying the top line in technology as the purchase of E-wings show. There were some losses of accounts in the last year but they seem to have been absorbed and in general the retention rate and customer satisfaction and retention is very high. Overall dividends close to 4% (how many companies offer that?) and no real dark clouds on the horizon. Trading already for this year reported inline with expectations and expectations are now a good increase in profits for next year. The only thing that is still baffling is that the share price doesn't reflect the results and the solid nature of this company. At this price and with these results they must be on the horizon of any company on the buying trail. We have seen both American and Australian companies showing a willingness to buy in this sector and this next year might be the year that HRG goes on foreign hands. Sad in one way as it is a proud well run british company but from a personal view these shares should be 100 and that is what I am hoping and waiting for!

results in the morning, come on HRG, no disappointments. results in line, dividends up, debt down and we should move towards 80!

anyone any idea what happened today. Not complaining and we are only back to where we were a couple of weeks ago but still unusual to see such a move in one day?

There really hasn't been any bad news. on the contrary I think the business travel scene is moving well and HRG are quite conservative in posting profit warnings very quickly should there be any doubts. The cost cutting has continued and I have not heard of any major losses although not heard of any wins either. Based on matching expectations which I fully believe they will, cant see any reason why this is not past 80 and on its way to 100. Maybe Radcliffe need to take it private again as he did before because the market simply didn't understand this type of company. It is ridiculously cheap at these levels

cant believe that anyone is still asking that question. The answer is of course yes and I wrote it off long long time ago. How you would expect this company every having any value? To all extent and purpose it is as dead as the famous parrot in Monty python's sketch!

Jerry, happy with slow, the higher we are when finally somebody goes for it , the higher we end when they finally sell out.Radcliffe who is the key man is not getting any younger/ Lots of buys going through above 72,levels we haven't seen for a very long time, but we agree it should be at least 80 at this stage

Interesting amount of trades and action today. Wonder if we are about to see a bid. Would be just fabulous and we could see the price close to 100. For those that don't know 2 companies each own around 23 % of HRG and since they are both in the business, one a competitor and one a friend that one or both would launch a bid which they have to do if they reach 29%. the third option is HRG taking it private again which also would see a much higher price. Trades are pretty small but don't forget that nearly90% of the shares are owned by these 2 companies, institutions, board members or people who are sitting on these shares like myself, so not great options of turnover! Keep a close eye over the next few days. 100 would be great, but might sell some even at 90 if we ever get there!