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Having held these shares since they were over 600p I'm afraid I have nothing constructive to say other than it must be nice to live in cloud cuckoo land with rose tinted glasses. Can I have a bit of what you lot are on?

�20 by Christmas? This site seems to have gone haywire.

The head of research at Liberum says Interserve is facing the biggest balance sheet risk of all the outsourcers. He reckons the stock could be terminal without a rights issue to address the problems.

Interserve, Capita, Mitie, Serco etc.? All the outsourcers can't go bust surely. But which one to have a flutter on!

My guess is that they will have a heavily discounted rights issue like Capita.

It was interesting to read a response from Geoff Drabble to a letter to and posted by a shareholder over on advfn., concerning the merits of a share buyback. Also to know that he keeps an eye on our thoughts on these share chat pages!

Matt Looks as though a lot have, but that doesn't bother me as much as the company planning a £billion buyback instead of paying off some of the debt.

If the directors want to take profits surely now is the best time ,when there is a positive outlook for the company rather than a negative.

Skyrise, That isn't investing or having a punt. If you are serious, that's big time gambling and you need help.

Was almost tempted to sell a few when the price hit 1950 this morning, the way the market is going, and probably the shares will drop on the results no matter how good. However on seeing JP Morgan's increased price target from �18 to �24 have held fire for now.

You're right DD. Sorry if I mislead anyone. In my search to find a reason for the jump in the share price on Friday I got the percentages the wrong way round!

I looked up the Chicago investment company, Harris Associates, which increased its holding in AHT causing the price rise on Friday. Seems that through their fund: Oakmark International, they look for "bargains across the pond"!. I also note that in after hours trades on Friday the price seemed to drop back to 1956. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

Good trading update from URI after hours last night has got AHT moving this morning. Could reach your �20 target sooner than you thought Matt!

The market doesn't seem to be up to speed yet with AHT. Their shares have risen 14% since hurricane Harvey whilst URI shares are up 32%.

Just a thought as regards hurricane Harvey. Having held AHT for many years, I recall Sunbelt picked up a lot of work in the wake of hurricane Katrina and the share price of Ashtead responded accordingly.

I didn't actually mean £20,000, but it would be nice!

Monday: we have great expectations of contracts on HS2, Tuesday: we get news of the purchase of a Canadian company which will give us a foothold in Ontario and yesterday URI came out with strong results. I guess there will be a pullback through profit taking but all we need now is for Trump to come up trumps with his infrastructure plans and we'll be heading for RBC capital's £20,000 target.

After the results most brokers are positive: still giving buy recommendations, but analysts at UBS see more downside.

The sp of URI at $107.7 has declined over 26% since its high in March. It is trading on a float of 8.26% with $84.00 million sitting short betting on future declines. As AHT seems to follow them I can't see any improvement while there is that short squeeze in URI

I had it all planned out. Sell first thing as the shares rocket up on the update on the 7th, then buy back into my ISA as the price drops, So much for the schemes of mice and men!