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I am amazed the senior management and directors are not attempting to reverse the SP slide. They should be talking to their institutional holders and big PI investors to get behind this stock at these prices and get some buying done. Lack of info on Baydonhill losses a month on is also not on. The two new contract wins are OK but don't seem to be affecting the negative sentiment which is building up here. Very disappointing. If you holding EPO I suggest writing to the chairman to express some concern with what's happening. It's his job to represent shareholders. If he can't do that he should make way for someone who can.

It's all in the wording. TRE has gone ex-dividend today which means shareholders before today get the dividend. If you buy today you won't get on the register (T+2 settlement for London stocks). Some holders were obviously waiting to pocket the divvi and then selling out.. Hence the drop. Re TRE's future they have on a number of times indicated they are committed to selling their carbon/CER portfolio and handing out the dosh to shareholders, minus costs. Carbon prices have bombed which means most of the stuff they have left is worthless or hard to liquidiate. i.e.without an unlikely change of direction or a seriously unforeseen improvement in carbon markets this is a busted flush in terms of growth prospects. But you can risk it as a yield play. Hope that helps.

Read the posts! It's gone ex-dividend. As there's not much future for TRE every time there's a payout it drops by that amount.

The consistent buying of this stock this last week or so is interesting. In addition to the relatively small PI stuff there are some more solid blocks changing hands. All very promising and suggests to me there are standing orders out there to buy up whatever comes onto the market but while trying not to disturb the price too much. It's possible there's a short termer out there working the SP up to 30 or so and then selling out for 20-30 per cent. Otherwise this is solid support and stake-building. Good stuff for us long term holders.

Agree - very good results. All the main metrics showing double digit advances. And the land bank/forward orders numbers indicate this is easily sustained to the year end at least. No idea why BWY investors have been jittery in the last 2-3 months. This is one of he best investments around right now.

Half a million shares shipped out at 16.8p. Somebody's not happy with the interims! Just checked the annual report and while Hank mainly takes stock in lieu of salary he's lined up with 25m and options on 45m. The Chairman owns a piddly 100,000 plus options. Almost all options at 27p exercise so senior management is deep underwater at 17p. You would think that would encourage them to get their fingers out and cut costs, push sales and drive towards break even at the very least.

Today's results not bad but the BH incident, as they are calling it, hangs over us. Most of the key metrics aren't bad apart from the extended losses. I thought we were on the cusp of b/e but looks like we're back to jam tomorrow. Worth holding at this price and some support from director buying - in volume - is what's needed.

Agree. I've no idea why this should have fallen so much when property has been one of the best sectors around for the last few months. I wonder if someone hasn't shorted this on some scale. I believe there are ways of finding that out but I don't know how. It might just be that people are taking profits too - I've had a very good run in those though I was hoping the brokers' prediction of £10+ would come good. More support yesterday though. Someone picked up half a million quid's worth at 730.

Read yesterday's RNS! Or click the diary button. It goes ex on June 10 and payment is July 8.

Agree, initial reaction definitely overdone. The number's aren't disastrous and the at this price/dividend it's yielding close on six per cent. There's also something fishy going on with today's trades - hundreds of tiny auto trades. I suspect someone's got a computer programme trade on today - some early selling to drive the price down before covering back.

There is a simpler way in that the RNS includes a box specifying 'thresholds which are crossed'. Often this gives you a direction, e.g. 'below' 9 per cent' in a recent RNS indicates that the holding has fallen to that. 'Above 5 per cent' indicates buying. Agree it's not always clear though. Major shareholders are also listed in the annual report so you can check an RNS with that list although it does date. PS not a particularly silly question on this board! I've seen many worse.

Good run up recently. The finals are due next week - I wonder if someone's had a sneaky peak in advance and has seen something optimistic in there. The manufacturing numbers coming out of Europe aren't very strong but perhaps Brammer will buck the trend.

This kind of trading volume should result in sellers and buyers triggering their reporting thresholds. Wouldn't be surprised to see some new shareholder news announcements imminently; then that will tell us who's lost faith and who's supporting EPO in size at 17.75-18p. I agree with you CityAl - the original announcement was far too terse and we need much more transparency from the chairman/ceo about what happened, when, why and what they are doing about it.

I think this is a bit smelly! E:PO would have known about this hit for some time. You don't announce this kind of thing immediately on discovery - you spend some time and effort trying to recover it. Only when it's irrecoverable do you go public. And £5m is a lot of money for EPO just as they were expected to go into breakeven. So just coincidence the SP has halved in the last few months? Suspicious or what? Disappointing! To be honest it was never clear to me why they bought Baydonhill in the first place - didn't seem core to the business of selling payments IT services.

So what's the EU got to do with UK housebuilding? Surely BWY investors aren't thinking that a possible EU exit means fewer Polish builders on their sites. I would have thought there's a lot more positive growth to come out of BWY before that remote prospect starts to bite.

Why the big selloff today? I've noticed BWY is struggling to hold onto its £25+ ground. I've seen nothing negative about this company, nor any housebuilder, and I had hopes for £30+. Anyone any ideas?

You may be right Jazz but normally what happens is that oncer a new customer is signed up there's an announcement. And once EPO is in the door as a service provider then it can expand its activities with that customer. There's the long term growth potential. My concern is we haven't had many of those announcements in the last 12 months. And I'm sure the big European banks are looking to cut costs - Barclays, HSBC,Standard Chartered all have huge international payments systems which EPO should be able to save money on. Let's get the right reps with the right pitch into those doors and sign em up!

In the last fourteen months EPO has announced six senior executive or board appointments. Each one with a fanfare about how well qualified, experienced and important they are to EPO's future prospects. During that time the share price has almost halved. Largely, I suspect, because of the slowing down in the rate of new customer announcements. Can we get back to basics please EPO - sell and deliver the product, build on your blockchain innovation and get to work on pushing through the break even into a situation where the company is consistently in the black and beginning to pay dividends. You're not a startup anymore - get to work and make profits!

As expected some good solid numbers from BWY. I'm not clever enough to work out whether there's an increase in the interim divvi here but I can see there's a strong platform for continuing growth here both in the construction numbers, revenue and year end divvi. Definitely on the way back towards £30 IMO.

....are due on Wednesday. Redrow's came out today showing good increases on all key metrics and a doubling of the interim dividend. There's already a decent yield on BWY and the full year numbers to end-July were excellent. All the latest broker reports are strong too. If the overall market was at all steady I would expect a resumption in the SP towards £30 but in these jittery times who knows what will happen. Any ideas anyone?