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If Hoc exceeds around 850 we are looking at making the FTSE100.

There is little reason to think that this share price will increase when external factors are worrying, once stability is seen, the market will evaluate this share and it will be priced accordingly. I have day traded this stock for the last year and held sizeable chunks to my net worth, love the company and the product, but the market does not, when there is risk. There is more volcanic activity and if Etna really blows, or other external factors this share will fall...

A takeover is an interesting concept, it is now 7 years since Coca Cola bought Costa, for potentially a similar amount. Our country will be sold and sold cheaply with the £ still at 1.35 or so.

Lifted from BBC

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Coca-Cola is to buy the Costa coffee chain from owner Whitbread in a deal worth £3.9bn.

Whitbread had intended to spin off the chain as a separate firm, but said a straight sale was more profitable.

Chief executive Alison Brittain said Whitbread would now focus on its Premier Inn business in the UK and Germany.

Whitbread bought Costa, which is now the UK's biggest coffee chain, for just £19m in 1995.

At the time, it had just 39 outlets. It now has more than 2,400 UK coffee shops, as well as some 1,400 outlets in 31 overseas markets. Costa Express has 8,237 vending machines worldwide.

HI All,

I am a long term holder and regular user of Easyjet. Looked at booking Gatwick flights to Geneva next February and could not believe the cost (high) and sheer number of daily flights. Your comment about cashflows is correct, must be huge cash flows coming in.

June 2026 flights open up this year

Weaker pound will make holidays to the US, Mexico, Caribbean and many other locations significantly more expensive - therefore driving up demand for European destinations.

At Luton yesterday at 4.30am for the 6am flight to Iceland, both flight and airport rammed. All Easyjet flights leaving on time, well it was the first flights of the day.

Back today on the 08.45am, again flight full, very smooth. Impressed, very happy to 'top' up at these prices, an isolated bit of research, but I am impressed.

An impressive development and no doubt the location is right for the use of cycles

"Residents will be able to cycle along the canal to the University of Birmingham in under ten minutes and the centre of Birmingham in under 25 minutes, adding to the sustainability of a development that is designed to minimise its impact on the environment.

If someone is going to make a bid, now would appear to be good timing. Either way just bought a chunk of shares for the ISA, have this share in my SIPP for sometime now and impressed with the company

Debenhams is a fantastic deal, i am totally surprised that a competitor like JLP, Next, The Hut Group or even M & S did not want to buy at this price.
Happy to add again this morning as this share will get rerated and is being manipulated.

Fashion on the high street is dead (apart from Primark), online sales will take over, this company will succeed and grow - it is as simple as that. There may be a hiccup or two and the stock may go down in the very short term. However with the fast pace of fashion, shorter lead times and indeed lower cost airfreight transportation it is easier than ever to move more production abroad. BOO HOO can raise their prices a little and the sales growth rate will not change, so there is a huge upside.

Up and down...sold my entire holding yesterday at 1365 and rebought a load at 1325 this morning. I will hold now for the dividend, but having bought at 1100p it was too good a rise to miss.

Sorry to be negative but if it is a battery issue, then there are real problems ahead.

https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/archive/lithium_ion_safety_concerns

An interesting reading for you folks, lithium ain't a nice material and the new batteries will ALWAYS carry some very small risk. It's unstable...this is a snip it from the above;

We need to keep in mind that these safety precautions are only effective if the mode of operation comes from the outside, such as with an electrical short or a faulty charger. Under normal circumstances, a lithium-ion battery will simply power down when a short circuit occurs. If, however, a defect is inherent to the electrochemical cell, such as in contamination caused by microscopic metal particles, this anomaly will go undetected. Nor can the safety circuit stop the disintegration once the cell is in thermal runaway mode. Nothing can stop it once triggered.

You do not need a PHD in physics to understand that things can go wrong...Technology is not 100% safe and for this reason I am out.

As mentioned a couple of days ago i thought this was going to have a major impact. I have heard from the Andover grapevine that the believed cause of the fire was a robot at a charging station catching fire, then going to pick an order dripping hot plastic through the grid, then other robots trying to asist to get the robot home also caught fire and so the fire spread pretty quickly.

Apparently, only one of the two rain water storage tanks was used by the sprinklers systems. Insurers will have an interesting job working out who is at fault here and why the building burned so readily. This was original a warehouse for Guilbert, then Office Dept before they left Andover.

The most obvious issue must be in the battery technology and overheating causing the electrical fire.

The site is a disaster area, must be a year at least before it is operational. Shares go up, shares go down, i cannot see how the current valuation can hold given the current situation. I have held these shares in the past but sold last year.

My prediction is that this warehouse is going to be out of order for many many months. The staff have today been taken to another site 1.5 hours away and told not to say anything to anyone. No doubt this will have a major impact on the UK business and perhaps in the share price over the next few days. Shorters time to move back in.

You have to ask yourself how could a 21st century warehouse burn like this. Over a day later there are still 100 firefighters on site. I myself have a couple of warehouses in Andover and have first hand information

Just doubling my small holding, this company IMHO will be taken over by a large PHARMA that has massive cash reserves, a price of 3 to 4 times current valuation is still peanuts. I made the right call on RED32

I bought a 10K shares at 7.17 only to watch it fall, then the bid came in. I day traded this share extensively based on movements in the pound and commodity prices over the last few years, last year it paid for my X6 and this year will cover all the holidays, I was going to buy X6VED number plate but my wife said no! I know there is some money if i hold, but only 1%. I will look forward to the £6K divi this month. Anyone into OPTI, I think this company has major potential and an interesting business to read about.

I dumped by 19,000 odd shares last night for 819.3, so happy with that and look forward to the dividend next month. This has been a great share for me

The market is pricing in a small amount of uncertainity that is all, share is trading now at 4 to 5% discount. Not a lot of money to the sheer wealth of this group, look at the dividends alone that have been paid over the years to Mr. Agarwal.

FXPO looks really cheap today, which was my best share of last year...back in there.

Deal must be concluded by 30 July

The deal works out at 856p a share, with the dividend included. The founder is buying the company at a time of weakness in the value of the business, so perfect timing for him - not so for the shareholders.