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Nothing spectacular here, just a steady rise based on decent buying. Exactly what we want. And the nice thing about WKP is that occupancy rates go straight onto the profits figure. A lot of the recovery is being driven by relatively small companies, and that's good for WKP. It won't take much more to see this well into the 300s. They just have to watch their borrowing costs.

I think this is overdone. Sevus isn't doing TAN any favours here but TAN's value hasn't dropped by 30 per cent. Sure the prospect of a balance sheet revaluation from a SEVUS IPO has disappeared for now but I would imagine that SEV may have been approached with private equity on good terms, which is why it's pulled the IPO. The real task for TAN is to make sure there's no further dilution, but it's possible that a private equity buyer may also pick up Tan's stake, or part of it, now that interest has been raised.

Am I being too simple (or optimistic) to assume that the 180 day loan repayment date to SEVUS gives us quite a big clue on the timing of their IPO?

Awful lot of very small trades going through today. Anyone know why?

Dear Beatthat - in the words of the great Tom Lehrer, 'If a guys got nothing to say the least he can do is shut up'.

Tiny volumes though. Where are the bargain hunters on the buy side?

Whassup here today? What's going on - why the drop?

Thanks for the support Lewis1 ! It's a pity Beatthat chooses to ignore a specific and genuine enquiry especially as he professes to know so much. But I find the the posters who make most noise on these sites don't always know as much as they like others to think they do.

Ignore em Beatthat - there only jealous of your unbridled optimism in the face of a deeply cynical world! Thanks for the presentation link - good detail. As you seem to know about this outfit what's GLOW 2 referenced on p 23 - the short term forecast for NVA237? And do you reckon that EU approval for NVA 237 is already in the price or, when (if) it comes, is that when we see your 85 on the screens? I'm a long term holder of this stock - I think the inhaler concept for generics is the way to go.

I agree Eastern - lets hope the day traders don't notice this! The only thing they bring to the table is volatility. ALK is ticking along very nicely although the European construction outlook is poor. A new base at 70+ before any SEVUS valuation comes through would be great.

Tony Juniper, ex head of Friends of the Earth and now a Green party candidate, was on R4's Today programme this morning talking about the danger of methane release from fracking operations. Perhaps Alkane should get him on board in some capacity!

I wouldn't worry too much about the cash on this one. FFA has intetgrated its two acquisitions in under nine months, which would have been a cash drain, but its new client signings are good names and the cash should easily recover in 2012. I guess it's possible they may tap the market for more funds but whenever they did that before it was via a placing with no deep discount. It seems their big shareholders like the story. The big downside on the cash position is that it pushes dividend prospects out further -2013 at the earliest.

Not sure why the Olympics would make a difference - this is a longer term property/debt play. If you believe that the debt servicing costs will stay low, that UK business will start to recover soon and that commercial property prices will rise then this is a good stock. If any one of those fails then it's not! I like this stock though - the UK economy is trending towards smaller businesses and this company services that sector. But it's not a fast flyer - though big buys of £4million this week will help!

Anyone following this company? I've liked FFA for some time and the two announcements about new customers - IC Stone and R J O'Brien - are very encouraging. They are both big names in the futures markets and these will make a difference to FFastFill's income stream. They have both been announced just in front of the year end too so maybe that's a bit of a bonus (if there's a payment involved) to the current year figures. I'm looking at 15p for this one by end 2012.

About the lack of progress here. Normally the CEO/chairman goes on the road to talk to major investors straight after results. I wonder what happened here? Either they haven't done any investor briefings or the investors are unimpressed. Let's hope it's the former.

These are good numbers today. A dividend would be great, and would put ALK in play for serious fund managers, but I suspect we wait until 2013-14 for a divvi. Meanwhile it's a great growth stock in the right sector and the diversification programme is good - though there will be capital expenditure risks there. That's probably why they are building cash. This is not a short term play imo. But 12-18 months maybe? Should see 50p plus by then.

Thanks - that's useful. The numbers still look good. Basically TAN is trading at half its true value based on not so hidden assets. May be time to stock up some more!

It would be good to see the details of the SEVUS fundraising then we might get an up to date calculation of the TAN stake. But I guess the bad news it that this pushes a SEVUS IPO further away, which means the TAN stake stays unvalued in its own balance sheet and the share price stays low. Anyone know how to get the US details?

What's with all the selling today? OK so the update wasn't brilliant - cash down slightly but more orders than they can meet - and of course nothing about SEVUS - but it hardly deserved that amount of red ink. And the US economic news is getting better so we may see something from Sevus this year. Hope so!

Like it! 2011's higher power sales plus higher average price plus a 50% increase in gross revenue must equal higher profits. So the final numbers should be very good. And Greenpark looks on the face of it as a very good buy for reasonable money. OK so the debt will rise but at low interest rates. Well done BoD. Good move. Let's have some intelligent broker reports with some new forecasts and we'll be in the high 20s in no time.