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Number of clients is up 26% to 1055 now. Gross Profit in Asia/Pacific is up 2.6m compared to 2015. Likely due to exchange rates and Aus business. UK was up slightly. Looking very promising for the Australian business. Staffing levels increasing from 52 to 68 people. Suggesting business is growing strongly. Looks like they have been using Newgate Engage since Feb 2016. With also some new large clients announced. Looks like they will also be helping with the 2018 Common Wealth games. They seem confident about the shape of Newgate UK now PPS and 13 are all one big team. They have been working with Glencore and Sompo. Looks like the results took some hits from writing down PPS brands etc. Newgate HK and China. Seemed to do well in H1 but a blip in 3rd quarter with a stronger q4. It is ahead of budget for Q1 2017. 'Whilst fees and margins were overall down year-on-year, the fourth quarter upswing in activity has served the business well as it entered 2017, with performance in the first quarter running ahead of plan. The business is well set for further growth in 2017.' They appear to be looking for more staff which sounds promising. Newgate Singapore seems to be growing on all fronts and has moved into larger offices. The team size grew at the end of the year. So this sounds very promising. Newgate Abu dhabi seems to still be in profit given oil slump. Seem to have retained a good client. Publicasity has gained 6 new clients this year. They also seem to be doing joint pitches across group now with Newgate. Looks like PPS has had a difficult year due to Brexit and many housing projects stalling. Business picking back up at end of 2016. Looks like 2012 have won a lot of new clients in 2016. Some which may have already been Newgate clients. So maybe the cross selling of products is finally bearing fruits? There are some big names in their client roster including Legal & General Investment Management in Q3. Summit seems to have suffered near end of 2016. Although they seemed to of gained a few new clients such as Sage One and Cripps law firm. So 5m loss is made up of. They count 1.56m in exceptional costs. 2.1m on amorisation of acquired intangibles. Plus 2.1m on impairments. Another year where one offs hide the real company performance. Future obligations is also a big issue here too.

Is anyone going to the AGM?? A good chance to ask questions. Not sure I can make it this year. I don't anticipate Adastra will be there either. The other question is do we get a AGM statement this year? To be fair what else will they really add that they had not already told us at the results? We know 2017 started well and is substantially ahead of budget compared to last year and their own forecasts. My gut is there will be no AGM statement. Then the question of when they do the 6M results. Will these be bought forward now?

Looks like market is punishing shares after Jim Durkin CEO retired. Not helped by small director sell. Small volumes for a share falling so fast. Is this now under valued?? Still a lot of cash on this companies balance sheet.

Aetna International hands global comms brief to Grayling http://www.gorkana.com/2017/05/aetna-international-hands-global-comms-brief-to-grayling/

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/markets/hellman-and-friedman-in-rival-bid-for-fairfax/news-story/8495b41975635760f5f337696926e027 Newgate Communication are one of the firms advising on this takeover.

Redleaf have a new client. http://www.gorkana.com/2017/05/filta-group-holdings-hires-redleaf-communications/

Fidelity and Hargreaves hale increasing their stakes hugely is a good sign. The general direction of this share at present seems up. 37p seems a bargain compared to the current prices.

I read it as though some of these shares will be used to pay for further chunk in Redleaf, Newgate Aus and other obligations. As well as raising 3m for equity. 'The Board has also reached an advanced stage of discussions with a senior debt provider to establish a new working capital facility. ' This means they will be locked out as they are reaching a deal on debt with a third party. They would have inside information is they were allowed to buy now. The stars here were Newgate Aus, Redleaf and Publicasity. It appears PPS suffered due to Brexit. They fully own 13 Comms now 100%. Not sure how they acquired this. Acquired 31/12/2016. 66% Redleaf - 501k profit for year. Up from 456k. 57.86% Aus - Revenue up from 7m to 10m! Profits 863k Down 80-90k. Australian revenue up over 40% on year!! 60% HK - No mention of these figures. Nor Singapore figures either. CAG - Profit for year - 2778 compared to (109692) loss last year. Team Darwin has been written off. Porta owned 25%. It's revenue was 107k. Key employee left. Loss of 36981. Overall a lot of dealing with debt, company acquisitions here. Net debt seems to be over 10m now. They really need to reduce these loan notes. Some positives but this company needs cash!! Overall there is a lot of detail in these results and I suspect I have barely scratched the surface.

Directors will be locked out due to negotiations over debt. So have to wait and see. Hopefully 2016 will be year they cleared out all the bad news. I was expecting revenue to be higher. Need time to study figures more closely.

7m loss not good. Lot of one offs. 2017 substantially ahead of budget. Loan note reduction likely. Hopefully BM holding reduced. Unless he is taking the shares. See what happens. See which way share goes today. Presently up.

Nothing has changed. The sellers in background cleared nearly 800k of stock yesterday on Nexchange. Dyor.

I suspect just supply and demand for movement as a few sells quickly reduced any gains here. All the bumps in price here were timed with the buys shown on LSE. About 140k sold on here. 150k sold on Nexchange. 150k bought on Nexchange and 325k bought on LSE. Even at these prices still some strong buys. Share supply must be very limited. I still think at 4p this share is greatly undervalued.

Takeover bid or background buyers? Suprised sp did not move on Friday. No one is selling here.

Wait and see for Thursday. If more buys arrive this will be 5p if results show a turnaround. Annoyed I didn't by more below 3p. 6p target for me longer term.

In past 3 days between here and ISDX/(Nex Exchange) We have seen nearly 2m buys. With only 260k of sells. This is a huge change compared to the previous 4-7 weeks in which we had seen a persistant seller here dumping shares. I counted well over 2.3m shares sold on this site since early March. (Albeit some selll trades were buys.) Excluding the large sell at start of March for which we never saw a trade or RNS for. It's unclear if this is one seller or many PI just selling up. With shares now getting short on supply an improved result would quickly see this share rise. Especially if existing major stakeholders start buying in here. So far only Gary Wyatt and Bob have been buying in terms of RNS/TR1. The unknown is if will we get any trading details for 2017 in the results or if we have to wait for June or September for these?? See what happens next week. A positive trading statement could help cover any losses likely on Thursday. Very unlikely to turn around a 1.9m paper loss. So far they have been rather stuborn in releasing any details.

Looks like I replied the wrong thread. If you can't buy stock online you call up your broker. Your broker should usually be able to place the order on the trading floor. It's always worked for me and friends in the past. The person who bought 266k of stock today clearly did that. Especially true when online sites suggests there is no stock available. The shortage of stock could be a good sign if results are better than expected. Then again maybe the seller is simply waiting for demand to fall? Why would you sell when it's clear the MM appear to be short of stock? Fingers crossed for Thursday. We could use some good news here.

To top up call broker. Only way to buy at present. Always works. Won't work presently online. The other thing to do is buy below 50k of stock. Strong demand in background.

We'll soon find out. 21.5m would be impressive.

http://www.holmesreport.com/ranking-and-data/global-pr-agency-rankings/2017-pr-agency-rankings/top-250 From 61-41. Revenue up 63%. http://www.holmesreport.com/ranking-and-data/global-pr-agency-rankings/2017-pr-agency-rankings/fast-movers Fastest growing PR agency above 30M. Mainly from acquisitions. They are 4th globally when you include those under $30M. Overall these ranking seem positive but how much due to PPS and Newgate merging?

Just noticed a 250k late buy at 3.4p. More stock gobbled up here. So nearly 1.172m shares bought today with 140k sold. Directors would be locked out before results. Porta's twitter and website have been very busy today. See what next week brings.