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Publicasity have been appointed to promote Turkish tourism. This seems to be one of a string of recent contract wins for this firm over last month. http://www.prweek.com/article/1341041/publicasity-appointed-promote-turkey-tourists This on top of Redleaf winning Best Adviser, Financial PR in the UK Stockmarket Awards. As well as Newsgate retaining two brief Palm Oil and Round Hill Capital 16 days ago. So a mix of new contracts and retaining existing contracts over last few weeks for Porta. I suspect we may see a very positive trading announcement in a few months. The purchase of Publicasity in the long term could really add some true value to PTCM. The last trading statement suggested Publicasity was doing well due to the increase in Ebitda when new purchases were included. I suspect Porta will announce Publicasity as a bargain buy come September. I also wonder what cost savings the purchase will offer in the coming months if it merges with Newsgate? Lots to be positive about here.

We will have to wait for the results to truly find out the exact cash circumstances. My view on this share is positive. They took on nearly 2 million cash from last 2 purchases. Yet I accept at times PR companies can't help themselves when it comes to numbers. Paul Scott was somewhat positive about the numbers on this share in September. I think last year Porta certainly played up the numbers a bit. I was disappointed by the results. They are PR experts. The overall underlying figures seem to be strong here and this is why I am still invested here. Once this seller overhang goes away i think we could see a positive lift to the shares. I can't believe for a moment 2 director would invest 100k unless they thought the company was doing well. DW has always said he would not borrow what he could not pay back in 3 years. It's hard to see where the cash burn is if all parts of the division are now close to or in profit? The issue perhaps is will 3-4 more acquisitions offer share holders good value? They claimed a 475k gain on WSM in half year results because of branding. Let's hope the results are not full of brand values rather than cash. Will be exciting to see what May/June bring. We could all use some good news here.

Actually the company could delay the results to end of June if they wanted. (6 Months after 31st December.) I only assumed end of May as this was the date last year. They delayed the trading statement to Feb this year. If the results are due in June then there is time for 1-2 more director buys to happen. (Probably unlikely but they have so far spread them out well so they can all buy around 7p mark. Gene and Raymond left.) On the other hand they might just want to get the results out to dispel gossip and rumours about the firm? We could then expect a trading update 1 month after results. Perhaps at an AGM? I wonder how they will play this?

There seems to be a lot of negative views on how this company is run. Porta has focused on ebitda over last few years as this was a good method to show how the underlying business was doing. The CEO has stated the business is past the cash burn stage of setting up new offices. Whilst there may be new share issues in future DW stated these would be for acquisitions and not at the current sp. If the firm was really doing bad why would 3 directors splash out close to 230k on nearly 3.1 million shares? I think a lot in the industry want porta to fail because they can see it becoming a major player. On a positive note the seller has sold no shares on the RNS news. He normally pounces on good news. The buys are now coming in under 8P. So expect a mark down soon. I expect porta to announce their first maiden profit this year. 2-3 million would quiet critics.

I figured they had delayed RNS. Still possible other directors could jump in here. Another 100k buy in 2 months.

Could be a big sell offsetting a large buy today? The sell price had been ticking up yesterday. Yet a huge sell should of had a big impact on price. Would the seller have 1.3m shares left? We are 2-3 days off closed period. Perfect time for director buys. Especially if good results are on way. I was expecting all directors to buy in here. I actually think they have timed them knowing a seller was out there. @drjenner. The firm made its first half year profit. I think the loss making days for this firm are over. Oil sector has big risks. This share long term has great propects. Today should be interesting.

I did exactly same as you looking at directors previous stock holdings/trades a week or so back. The seller you suggest had about 6m shares. He does look like a possible contender. With all the recent trades I can't believe he would have much stock left. I suspect time is running out for any further directors buy. Porta are excellent at timing announcements.

I was a bit disappointed by Drjenners comments. This is a share I have been actively following for over 12 months now. I have watched all the videos and followed Paul Scotts comments on this firm. Albeit he only comments when the results come out. I do troll the net for stories on this firm but anyone who invests in a firm wants to see how it Is truly doing. Most of Adastra comments have been excellent. We all have opinions on stocks. If these are backed up by facts then that is fine. I agree do your own research too and don't buy stocks just on forum comments. I happen to think the discussion here is mostly informed. I think people find news on this share interesting. If you find my comments to be spam then please say so. I would not post here if I felt I had nothing to add.

Few points here. 1. The theory is a stale investor is dumping their 6-7 million shares because they need the money for another project that is burning cash. This is certainly why the SP has been subdued. We believe this seller has been dumping shares since last June. So if they had 6-7 million shares they must be running out of stock. The seller will normally pounce on any good news to dump stock. (Assuming one big seller.) 2. We are assuming a lot of the 50k, 100k and other similar rounded number sells are the stale investor. It is possible some small investors are just selling up to invest elsewhere or because they need the money.. There are a lot of small investors in Porta so it's not always 100% clear who the seller is. On days where good news comes out and you see a lot of sells this is normally a good indication a large investor is dumping stock. 3. I wouldn't assume the stock will surge once this process is complete. This will depend on how well the company is truly performing. So far all the recent trading updates have been very positive. Backed up also by director's buys. It's my opinion this share should be above 10p. Am I right? Well that is the risk of finanicial investments. They can go up and down. This share comes with a health warning but a very positive upside appears on the cards. 4. My final theory is that a bitter ex employee is dumping shares to subdue the share price to further their business interest. It's possible a third party wants to see this share price supressed. You can long and short a share. So could someone be gambling the share price will be going down to make money? The positive thing here is the seller/s will eventually run out of stock to sell. In last 1-2 month I believe they have sold at least 1.5-2+ million shares alone. That can't go on forever. Especially if they have been doing this since June 2014. Long term investors will see out this storm. As eventually the SP will match the actual performance of the company.

6.5p was an absolute bargain. I wish I had topped up at that price. I truly believe the share price will be double what it is now come December. Partly due to a price correction once seller clears his stock but also due to the strength of the underlying business. This is a business that has grown hugely in terms of revenue. The business is now past the true cash burn phase and is becoming a strong profitable business. Each new acquisition will only strengthen this firm and add critical mass in certain parts. Look at the new business stream too. Pulicascity has just announced it is taking on PR and social media for launch of Regent Street Cinema. This is one of many contract wins announced this year. From an outside view it also appears all parts of the business are now in profit. Seriously if this company starts making 3-4+ million profit a year people will start to take notice of what is going on with Porta Communications. Perhaps there is still time for a third director to buy in next week. They seem to like Thursdays for trading updates and results. So maybe results out on May 28th. That or 21st which would mean a closed period. This stock could well be the star of 2015. (Hopefully Adastra will be back soon to do these posts again. Wasn't intending to take over. He was doing an amazing job.)

The seller probably cleared near 800k-1m+ shares today. I predict at least 1.5-2+ million over last month. More if you assume the large 690k sell on ISDX was same seller. There is no way to maintain that kind of level of selling. The big plus here is investors are happy to chirp in with big buys at or above 8p. They all know this share is due a big rerate. I previously suggested the stale holder could have at least 1-2+ million shares left. I wonder how close I really was? I also wonder if DW waited till now because he knew the seller was running out of shares. This could also be why big sums are now finding their way into this stock. If this continues expect a big rerate quickly here. The markets always know what is happening and who is selling. This could be the real Easter suprise in 2-3 weeks. Bring on 10p.

Porta got a brief mention in Daily Mail market report yesterday due to Directors buy. This could have helped push the share up today. That mixed in with Porta being named as one of the 1000 companies to inspire Britain. http://www.lseg.com/resources/1000-companies-inspire-britain/2015

The figures on LSE do not tell the true tale here. The headline figure shows 914k shares sold and 244k bought. However looking on ISDX shows 4 large 200k trades all around the 8.2 mark.. While I don't doubt the seller is still around someone is clearly buying into PTCM in a big way. This is a share that dipped to 6.4 only in last few days. 6.5p buys to now 8.2 buys in 1-2 day shows how easily this share could soar once the seller clears his remaining stock. This following on from CEO DW strong buy rubber stamping how well this firm is doing. The outlook for this share is very good and I feel the market is starting to buy back into this share in a big way. 2 large directors buys and a lot of positive trading updates. Plus an Australian division apparently worth at least the current market cap. Time to buy a share that could easily be above 10-15p by the end of the year. A strong 2014 end results could push this share much higher. The seller has to run out of stock soon.

This looks like a well timed buy by David Wright. Just before the closed period 2 months before the year end results. This following on from the 1.3 million trade by Brian Blasdale at 7.5p. Apart from the seller who must be close to clearing his stock all the signs are very positive here. DW will know just how well the company is doing. This should be a good indicator that positive results will follow at the end of May. Will other directors follow his lead? With an 11p broker price the market will soon rerate this share in next 2 months.

Looks like DW has bought nearly 500k shares.

Positive recovery from the low today. Strong demand below 7p. One reason directors have not bought lately is perhaps because they are waiting for seller to clear stock. I expect next few days the share to move up and down again if a large sell order has to be filled. Been a few small buys on ISDX too. 700k trades on a day of no news is very unusual.

Unfortunately I suspect there could be 2 sellers here. The share dropping again could be due to a large order to fill. Very small trades. Note the seller is using LSe and ISDX. Which might suggest they have shares in different places. Or a second seller. I wonder if there are some people that want to see the share price fall. Bitter ex employee or people now in other PR firms. It's crazy that the shares should be priced this low. No way management would sell here.

Could we see a management share buy back scheme? The company could buy back shares worth 3-4 million. Then use these shares to finance new deals? This would protect the share price and also offers good value to share holders. Not sure what funds they have to do this. Share would spike on any kind of announcement like this. Even 1-2 million would give shares a big boost.

Interesting. ISDX is related to the ICAP security exchange. Link - http://www.isdx.com/forcompanies/ourcompanies/default.aspx From looking on the website you can see the trades on Porta for the day outside of the LSE. I never knew this. So far only 13818 volume today on Porta. Seems I am on a learning curve today. Sorry for asking so many questions.

That sounds very positive Adastra. The company website clearly lists all the current major shareholders. The main non director holders are: Hargreave Hale 9.93% Fidelity 6.01% Ruffer LLP 5.65% Stephen Byfield 5.56% Gary Wyatt 3.36%. The only person to drop out of here in last 12 months is Graham Herring who sold 1.5 million share at end of September. We know this by the RNS. I did some google research on Graham and it appears from his twitter account he is now the joint founder of Directorstalk. I assume this is a PR company? I don't know much about ISDX. I assume you need more access to see these trades? Have you been tracking this for last 6-7 months? If so have other similar orders gone through each month? I assume that order was within last few days?