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Hi all, want to know why volumes are low and mainstream FTSE stocks are sluggish? Just take a look on the ARB share chat. Nearly 13k trades and 800 chats today alone. (good luck if you know what they are on about in the forum, or indeed what the company actually do) The stock is like digital catnip. I only stumbled across it because some novices had bought ARG by mistake and were wondering why it wasn't moving. So it now looks post-pandemic we are all going to be driving electric cars, working from home, holidaying less and mining crypto-currencies - can't wait!
There are lots of trolls, doomsters, gloomsters, derampers and end of the worlders, all suddenly popped up on all sorts of forums. This usually implies that there is about to be a closing of short positions. Could be wrong but someone has already said something similar on here.
Bought in today. Think the last three days have been quite harsh across the board, as the big players have exited 'value shares' in search of 'growth stocks', in the final push. Today is a good day for private buyers, taking advantage of the dips and that is why we are seeing steady little rises across the board. Everyone will be back in the game at some point. Btw I also hold Lloyds and is exactly the same as this. Think the deal/no deal hype before Xmas turned out to be a bit of a red herring and became another short opportunity hence a one way SP direction, also If you think CPI have big debt, just look at BP and their agenda? GLA.
Hi Risk
Think this is Investec as the Broker, 'Yes Bank' is the stock in question.
What a weird world/time. Either you save hard to end up paying interest, invest in a blue chip profitable business to see eroded capital and no dividend or alternatively, you invest in a grounded business with huge losses, see an immediate capital gain or invest big, in something that does not even exist and make a fortune. Don't recall doing this module on my business degree.
Hi DC
This is just like BP all over again in September/October. The SP could only go in one direction. Let's face it there are enough frustrated investors, sectoral headwinds and macroeconomic uncertainties, the perfect breeding ground for hedge-funds to have a good go at this. What is the betting that there was a huge sell-off just before Xmas at 39p with all of the Brexit euphoria and this will trade down now all the way to a convenient bit of good news, ie the dividend and hey presto the SP will suddenly bounce to where it should be. - Just seems to be following a bit of a pattern.
Hi Dohnuts.
I can't help but notice that you have been a little bit 'present' on this forum over the past four days, almost like a teenager outside the precinct off-licence. I don't know if you follow Boohoo at all but in October, when their auditor stepped down, coupled along with media hype, it sent shareholders running and someone even went to the kind trouble of posting a homespun Youtube video on LSE of why it is 'so bad to not have an auditor' at exactly the same ctritical point of SP retracement as this. I am starting to see the same thing happening here and think you may either be a paid deramper or someone desperately representing a 'short' interest in LLOY.L. All I can say is that Boohoo is nearly one third up and I am sure that Lloyds will find it's true following in due course . Have a good evening.
....Just seems a huge shame that all of the life-changing, ground breaking marvels of science and research, that have restored so much faith and hope in recent months, has just been instantly undone by political pantomime.
Hi, do people find it a little bit strange that just two working days before a Brexit deadline, which the BoE put it, 'more economically challenging than Covid', endorse a decision on dividend reinstatement? Just doesn't seem to reconcile.
Apologies,
Meant to caveat my previous post with **Non-recommendatory** and to take publication titles and material just for reference and with a pinch of salt. Thank-you
Hi WaspsFan
After a great deal of research, I decided to switch from other stocks to INVP and think that the answer to the question is a bit of an irregularity. Put simply, the stock appears to have been historically left on the shelf and is a highly profitable, cash rich business. Here is an article from 2019 from Motley Fool, who have also tried to answer. No doubt the South Africa GDP/Rand devaluation has been an additional factor, along with the cessation of dividend and share buy-back scheme. I think the divergence of N91, was part of the growth strategy to enable Investec to focus as a 'specialised bank'. To be honest I am not sure as to what extent this is all a problem, or a nice problem to have.
https://www.fool.co.uk/investing/2019/09/10/2000-to-invest-i-think-these-ftse-250-stocks-could-double-your-money/
Thank-you for your words olda! much appreciated.
Hi, does anyone know if the SP would have been normalised, at the point when 91 was demerged? i.e do folk think that £3 is a realistic target price?
Hi olda...
Bought 5k shares around half past 8. still have quite a lot of spare cash for later. My main worry is just to try to recoup initial losses and INVP seems a good vehicle to get there. Also like the fact that there is little or no ‘ramping’ on these forums With INVP, implies that there are a lot of stable institutional investors. You could say it is the antithesis of Boohoo. You can also probably tell that I am a nervous novice come stocks and shares. Thanks again
Craig
Hi Oldabutnowisa.
Your comments are a breath of fresh air and the only commentary I can find. I was waiting for today’s RNS before investing in this company having withdrawn from the likes of BP with paper losses. I Have always liked this company RNS seemed ok too and it has been stable to say the least right through this whole sorry state. Just seems the SP has gone a bit south since this morning. Maybe this is one to forget about for a year or so and look forward to £3+. Take care Craig:)
Hi, Just look at the share price graph, over the last six months? No wonder the arena is full of nervous investors and ****y day traders. You realistically should not expect to wake up on a Monday morning and see huge chunks of your capital eroded and likewise, see huge spikes around results time, creating a predatory culture. The problem also with non-dividend stocks, is that the only way you can only realise income by selling your shares and with this in mind, most people will just sell up, resulting in the the share price never really maintaining any proper momentum. I think the involvement of the likes of TPR and MS, will add some stability to the share price in the medium term, along with general market correction. The SP should hopefully settle somewhere between the highs and the lows of late, with steady year on year healthy growth. Boo will be much more investible at that point and will remain in my portfolio.
Hi all,
Just reflecting on today's events.
Call me cynical but I think that today's Pfizer news, tells us nothing we didn't already know. Just three weeks ago Astrazeneca were telling us about ADZ1222, which was equally effective.
I think todays news was just a smokescreen, an unofficial bell sounded in the dark world of institutional short sellers and hedge funds, simultaneously instructing them to close their short positions, it is the only think that makes sense. Just look at the likes of NEX, GOG, BP, RSDB, WTB, IAG, SGC, all languishing and very heavily, unexplainably oversold. Nothing like a bit of good news to sneak through some nine months of market manipulation and all have had some value returned to their SP today.
It looks like ASOS and BOO are victims, purely because there are (hopefully) very few institutional open short positions, after all this is a money making bullish sector.
The fundaments have not changed one single bit, we are still in lock down, shops are shut and it is going to take years for most businesses to return liquidity, profitability and BAU.
I think that today's SP set back is just people jumping ship, after all we are seeing some wider investment opportunity for the first time in months and FOMO must be kicking in. (all in my opinion).
Hope to see some familiar names today and happy investing everyone.
..... a little bewildered by today's events and a few harsh messages are coming to light and people are being a bit honest.
I was wondering if you could please explain your rationale for posting about the 'Facebook' message. which seems a little bit side issue, given the context that today, we saw BP close less than £2 an RDSB at nearly£9, quite eventful!
This isn't your usual erudite response to an event, being quite a crap day as investments go.