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Ok, looking around for some good news for us, I note that US hospital admissions for covid are down 71 per cent from 9 January to 23 March (www.cdc.gov). Still a long way to go I am sure but the UK experience suggests that the vaccine impact on reducing hospitalisations from serious cases is quicker and greater than the impact on the number of infections. One can only hope that the back log of operations can start to be addressed and our lovely new facility can quickly move to full capacity.
I remember asking as a relatively newbie many years ago whether people thought this would ever pay a dividend and, understandably , no-one proffered an opinion. I'm rather pleased to have stayed in long enough to find out that it would. My first divi should get me a small round of drinks once the pubs reopen but every little helps.
It's not done any harm for Summit (SMMT) which moved to Nasdaq a couple of years back, and is 500 per cent up since beginning of 2020. Mere anecdote admittedly but I think of these two companies as similar because I bought them at the same time, as two biotech companies seemingly at the same early stage of development. Both have required a lot of patience and have had the odd nightmare moment but both are still in the game. Hope Rene can do do it here.
So if you are 18 per cent down at .235, you were in profit at .305 last week - by several thousand if you own 12 million. Sure we can't always pick the right time to sell, but more to the point, there's not much substance to moaning when the swing to profit is so small. Try being a TRP shareholder from a few years back - I need the sp to grow 6,000 times over on that one,
Obviously not an active board right now but following today's announcement of the disposal of Curious Drinks there may well be a few hundred new shareholders who are getting Chapel Down shares in exchange/compensation for their stake in Curious. I've never heard of the Aquis exchange - anything we should know?
Why would we be investing in AIM if we did not think we should 'pre-judge what a company may do in the future'? If we 'wait and see' we are surely unlikely to make money, no? As has been noted, different writers in the Telegraph can write very different takes on the company's prospects - which is fair enough - and it is our job , should we choose, to review the portents and make our own decision. I did that with Arm and did very nicely. I've also done very well here so far and am holding for more. I've plenty of losers elsewhere of course.
I think it's a 'don't want to be out of this over the weekend' moment.
As several of us said last week to a new investor - 'this rapid rise has probably priced in success- don't panic if the price falls even after a good sales update'. This is barely an update, and SP performance in recent months suggests investors were hoping for a little more than 'slightly ahead of expectations'. Nothing to worry about here though - the investment case remains very strong.
Isap, first thing first, be very cautious about advice or comment on these boards. You have to do your own research and temper your views of the comments you see here with the knowledge that some people will have their own agenda to encourage others to buy or to sell. Anyway, well done for making a good purchase, although remember a profit is only really a profit once you crystalise it by selling and pocketing the money. I got in here quite recently at 1.9p so am very happy. Personally I'll be hanging for a bit longer yet because looking at the sales figures for the company and assessing the stage they are at, I think they will increasingly successful and the share price will continue to rise. We'll get a sales update soon but note that even if they are good, the market may already have accounted for that in the rise over the last month. Don't panic if the share price dips even after a good set of figures - the company does seem to have good prospects of several years of steep growth (particularly I would say as Biden's green agenda kicks in) and the SP will follow.
If the comparison is sxx - I'd be happy with breakeven (about 0.8), if it's what I sort of hoped for when I invested, then 2p plus would leave me not unhappy. But then we could be worth a lot more than that with following wind, so...
I think I was being a mite too pessimistic - I'll up my figure slightly to 0.62.
"As I said, I am not at all worried, maybe I didn't phrase it well."
Seeing as what you actually said at 11.44 was "But I am worried" I think you could say you didn't phrase it well ;-) - mind you we've all done it.
IMstaying - if there's a 10-1 consolidation, then instead of having, say, 100 shares worth 1 p each, you suddenly have 10 shares worth 10p each. You've not done anything, and the value of your holding does not change. So I first bought in here at 13p, but when calculating how my investment has grown I would work with a figure of 130p. You'll find people say they bought at 13p , because they actually did. You may also find people referring to their holdings or average in 'old money' because it's a mixture of old and new purchases, or just because they like to emphasise their LTH credentials maybe.
Intrigued by the potential here but with the spread currently around 25 per cent I think I'll wait a bit longer before taking the plunge.
'the question is do you believe them in a non RNS format' - it's not though. The question is do these unsubstantiated, nudge-nudge, tweets make other potential investors believe them, or do they make them sound like the kind of ramper who gets laughed at on these boards. I fear it's the latter. They really should keep quiet unless they've something worth saying, or it risks being counter-productive.
There was an extraordinary programme in the Dispatches slot on Channel 4 last night on the environmental cost of our digital lifestyles, and in particular the cost of data centres. Lots of remarkable facts (each time CR7 posts a photo to his 240 million followers it uses the same energy as 10 UK households for a year; 67 per cent of Amazon's profits come from data storage; 3 per cent of the UK grid already goes to data storage but in Ireland planned expansion of data centres could in a few years take it to 41 per cent). Have a look on the All 4 catch up service, but the key takeaway for SAE is that huge investment is needed in greener energy to power data centres - Amazon in particular is being pushed to maintain and expand its renewable energy plans. It's got to be an area we can contribute to.
Good heavens, I bought in here earlier this week at 1.94 but hadn't realised Itaconix was Revolymer. That was one of the first companies I ever looked into because I thought their promise of easily removeable chewing gum would be a money-spinner. At the time they were private and I lost track of the company when it didn't take off. It feels rather nice to be in now and to have strong confidence this is going to be a nice little earner.