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Seen a lot of overly-positive puff based on old news and spurious hype around large share trades that are probably no more than book balancing with the MM. That kind of noise stinks of P&D to me but IMO there is a decent company here that just needs to get its house in order and prove to the market its much-enlarged top line can be reflected in the bottom line this year. So if you're thinking of buying here I'd really suggest making sure you know what you're getting in to, it might be a medium or long term hold to see even the broker's revised-down forecast. In the next 2-3 months we'll see the outcome of the profitability review and maybe further guidance on how "bad" the lower-than-expected results due next year will be. We might see some positive contracts news too. But for me this is at least a medium term hold now into next year and maybe beyond. It's cheap enough to buy but I wouldn't expect a restoration of the pre-crash SP overnight.

is the price to buy. What is going on here? looks like a pitprop to me. I'd hoped some rationale had returned with the lift of bottom but now I'm not sure. Profitability review and some forward guidance can't come soon enough, APC clearly has so much going on on the ground.

Sahid: the trade is there in the record but missing from LSE. I have noticed this quite a lot over the last couple of weeks it is not ideal.. http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/summary/company-summary/GB0000373984GBGBXAIMI.html

Okay dokey no hard feelings mate

247: fair point but I never mentioned you or linked any LSE poster to the rumours, I only posted a link because someone else couldn't find it and every post running up to that I'm clear I'm treating the rumour with utter scepticism. For the record. I know I might sometimes get carried away with positivity for the shares I hold but I try my best to never knowingly push rampy puff and potential market abuse so I'm not happy to be linked to this because I happened to answer another poster's question about a direct URL to Twitter.

I posted the link to twitter but I wasn't the first to mention the takeover rumour and in context we were talking as if the rumour might well be BS however generally it wasn't outside the realms of possibility that the whole board might not survive a hostile run at the share at these prices. So please don't event start to suggest I was ramping the rumour when every post was sceptical. Id love to see APC back up and I don't think the profit warning was worth 50% off value but I don't believe the takeover BS rumours either

This IMO is not a sub <10m mcap company, not now they've grown the top line and diversified (as requested!!). Yes there's been an almighty FU but the nature of the FU should not take away from what has been achieved. No revision to revenue guidance (yet.. granted) and plenty of scope to improve margin and/or pricing on newly-acquired unit means the revised CF target should be achievable in the medium term. Clearly a longer journey now than I imagined at the start of the year but the future is not as bleak as teetering on the edge of 8s again imo. gla

Because you know how the employee share scheme works but you don't know how to open a trading account, and the options are about to expire? Don't know, but it's not that crazy with today's quote of 9.5p - 5% loss... Also the 3 grand raised goes to APC and not a punter..!

Indeed the last 7 tweets, replies and retweets for that user are ramping APC. Sadly it's relatively easy to hide your tracks - still - on Twitter. Plus, in a connected world, it's relatively easy for someone outside the FCA's jurisdiction to run a P&D or a poop-and-scoop scam. But the conjecture does lead to some interesting thoughts of possibilities...

https://twitter.com/Investor_Soiree/status/636842818619752448 There's a lot of IIs - 10 institutions sharing 34% and several have been downsizing their holding sub 20p and none have increased ( source: http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Business-profile?s=APC:LSE ) So I wouldn't be so sure - not at all. Sentiment at the moment someone could take an aggressive run at this and accumulate well under 22p. That's why IMO the full board need to pull together and get some hard facts out there as soon as practicable. There's no way this is worth £8million mcap on revenue forecasts and that disastrous RNS alone - it's a sitting duck and they need to get something out before November IMO.

Some LTHs might disagree... APC spent around 18 months above 30p and that only ended less than 12 months ago. 52wk high is 39p... Would be divisive for sure.

So the reason the MM jumped on the 30k is that they didn't just jump on the 30k... They jumped on that AND the near 100k buy sat behind it (yes it's misclassified as a sell but it's definitely a buy on the ask at 11:56am). So next question: is this related to the speculation on twitter? And even if so, is it just part of a ramping/P&D scam?

Thanks - looks an odd one... Assuming for a minute there's any substance... 22p would be pretty divisive. Yet another wake up call, they can't leave the SP down here languishing forever. Hints that operational review and other announcements made "late autumn", well that might be too late if someone really does have their sights on APC. Can't be botched but at an mcap of £8mil for touted turnover of £30mil well, anything could happen...

Bit of a jump there, from 8.75-9.0 to 9.0-9.50 on 30k (ostensibly, could be a large one delayed...)????

For a short-term appease the shareholders measure, well... What can I say. mcap currently stands at £7.7m... for an expected £30m turnover company with growth plans. At these prices who knows what can happen...

Look, we still have a decent top line to work with. Cost of acquiring... businesses or customers... always a huge issue. There was a shout for change, change came, let's see what they can do on the finance/operations side of things. I'm still hopeful..!

Why would he jump at a massive loss? He's also being retained as a consultant according to RNS so whilst not covered by director dealing reporting I assume there will be a general understanding that MR has the company's intentions at heart...

Too hasty in my view (as per my post below) but at least RH has Finance and COO experience - a good "operations guy" (if indeed he is) could be the right person to reign in the costs in the short term. Long term must hope the new CEO has imagination and flair to complement his CFO/COO past. Also hope the BOD is not lacking sales vision too.

@mb11 problem is now, on those numbers quoted from the broker note 10p looks fair price - with nearly 100m shares in issue a million PBT gives a PER approaching 10 by my maths. That perhaps puts 20p round 18 months time when company looks set to break £2m the year ending Aug-17. I really want to believe in APC I've held shares for a while and averaged down rashly, with hindsight, and not even at bottom it turns out. I defended APC during the week and I still believe a rash board change to appease shareholders in the short term may be very bad move long term - need to give the BOD a chance to finish the job they started, firmly believe hiking top line is an achievement in itself and a rushed change now might cause more long term damage than it fixes the sp a bit now... But the cold maths doesn't really support my optimism I feel. And I know that posting this is dumping on the very step I need to exit by but I doubt one more voice will make much difference. Also I can afford to hold LT so I'm hoping a constructive debate will in some small way move to set the best path forwards.

Unless there's another big 'un waiting to get reported it is a surprise to see another fall on a balanced day. 165,750 b vs 151,616 sold