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Majority of trades today were automated from funds. The major shareholders control over 57% of the stock. I can't see M&G on major shareholders page. Not sure when they dropped off or if they sold out.

Of course most of the trades likely relate to long/short positions today. 70m trades is 7% of the entire stock.

The timetable for the new share issue could last till August.

Do we think the market forced the share higher to allow IQE to do a share issue? If it drops all the way back to 10-15p I would be asking questions. Someone must have thought something was going to happen and everyone piled in. You can bet from March certain parties would have known about the fund raiser. The share started to drop after the announcement was made.This is the danger of share manipulation. Kept at 5p for months then surges to 70p.

I can't believe the big holders would have sold at 50p or so if they thought 70p to £1 was likely. See what tomorrow brings.

Lots of chatter about short positions here. Any position above 0.5% would have to be declared. So no company could hold more than 0.5% if they were heavily shorting here. Yesterday one of the 0.8% shorts positions sold out completely and the share still fell. It's possible there are lots of short positions just below 0.5%. You would think when the share soared to 70p most of the existing hidden short positions might have quickly closed.

The market is betting heavily on IQE. It's likelly the small PI who will get hurt here.

How far will the market force IQE SP down? If it goes below 20p all those that took shares will be sitting on a short term loss.

The next market update about trading may not come till September unless the results contain some news.

Looking at the share graph it shot up to 70p and has pretty much been forced all the way back down. It's possible many holders are dumping shares before the new shares are issued. There has not been a massive sell off from those above 3%. There is still no info on who mopped up any of the sold shares here.

The problem is this share went up on a huge number of long positions on the basis the firm was to be sold. It's now crashing backand share issue confirmed. They did put out a strong TU with the share issue news. Albeit the broker forecasts have not changed in last month.

Likely many now closing their position as no notifications over holdings here. Which suggests it's all people betting on the future of IQE. Could be many day traders too pumping and dumping. The shorts above 0.5% they do have to notify the market about. Many holders below 3% do not have to notify the market if they sell.

The share could bounce back. Not sure what if any news the results might hold. It should be market info that is already known. Brutal to see the share drop almost 20p in 2 days.

How can you lock in when the shares have not even been issued yet? That could be another month.

I read the IQE share news story saying it was the biggest riser of the day. They really need to update those stories as that just looks silly now. Wonder if some long positions are now closing?

So 3 majotr shareholders now reducing. Who is buying all this stock? I think RG mainly reduced a long position. The other 2 sold actual stock.

All meaningless as the stock is getting gobbled up by investors.

Not a huge shock. Lombard have cleared 5% of their 14% stock of IQE in 2 days. Likely them that sold 20m shares yesterday. Not checked for large trades today yet. Guessing there will be one. At 45-55p they will have made a big profit. Unclear how the share issue impacts this. They may be reducing to ensure they stay below 14-15% level when the new shares are issued. Will they lose their executive on the board?

Back in December if someone offered you 19-20p you would have snapped their hands off. Take this hand in hand with the Trading update and the new major partner.

The reality is the market likely pushed the SP above any of the likely offers it had for the firm. With the increase in business long term not selling may finally be the right answer.

Trading Update

Revenue for FY 2025 is expected to be £97m, resulting in an adjusted EBITDA position of c.£3m and adjusted net debt of £31.5m. As at 31 December 2025, IQE's cash position was £15.7m.

Trading in Q1 2026 was on budget and in line with management expectations. Strong demand was seen across core segments, including for photonics products related to AI-compute and data centre deployments, as well as VCSEL and wireless products supporting the consumer smartphone industry. Alongside ongoing strength in aerospace and defence industries, this trajectory is expected to continue throughout 2026.

Revenue for FY 2026 is expected to exceed 20% growth year-on-year, with strong order book visibility into H2.

IQE expects to announce FY 2025 results in late May 2026.

Billion dollar company? It's losing money at just under 100m revenue . Unless the order book is about to double I doubt this. It would need ai to take off in a huge way. So far we have only market speculation on what might happen.

1 billion would assume much higher revenue and profits. IQE has not made a profit in 5+ years and is supposedly a leader in its field. It's revenue has almost halved in that time.

You can bet those short positions went up on Friday. The share was up 500% since Jan.

If Lombard thought it was worth well over 15p they would swap debts for shares.

For a world class leader in their area still predicting £100m or so for 2025 and £117m 2026. (Broker)

To be fair the long

Short positions now over 1% and likely went up yesterday.

River Global Investors will fully sell out here. So some downward pressure. Plus the risk of pump and dump by day traders. Most of the trades here is people betting for and against the share. Hence very few 8.3 updates.

They might clear below 1% quickly with volumes here. At 8.5p it's well above the 5p they got before.

It talks of big demand but revenue still below £100m and losing 15-20m? The extra demand was worth up to 7-8m. Question is what kind of revenue they might get in 2026. IQE could easily 3x production here if they wanted. Of course they lack money for new tools but likely have a lot of idle machines.

Of course a lot of this is factored into the share price. If they could produce Ddr5 memory tomorrow then revenue would soar. 😂 Computer parts prices are rising and firms like Nvidia and Samsung have no spare capacity and can charge more as demand outstrips supply. IQE are not close to this yet. They are doing better but not compared to others out there.;GAN production globally is not in short supply?

Yes but these are IQE products. They are not in short supply. Unless IQE starts making products the market lacks. IQE has so much spare capacity the usual customer won't pay more here.

Feels like shorts are taking up their positions again.

There is a trading update. Not on LSE for some reason. Revenue 97m. Strong Q1 order book. Update on debt too.

Shorts pumping and dumping. 7p may be a good sell price?

These are all likely shorts closing as no RNS.