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Aim, just as a counter to your 1.8% (assume that is correct) of Capita shares being held short, and to advance the debate. Please see here a point i made on 26 March from NF's data of Capita ownership.

"What's interesting (to me anyway) is to look at the holding over time by Schroders. From February 2020, at the start of Covid-19 outbreak, they held just 101.031m shares. They stayed at this level until October '20 when they doubled up and bought a further 101.187m shares, to total 202.218m shares. This would have been just prior to the announcement of a Covid vaccine, with a huge proportion of the 40,000+ staff furloughed.

By August 2021 they had steadilly increased their position, to have by this time 309.079m. Since then they have further increased to now holding 321.826m"

So, over that given period, Schroders Investment Management increased their holding from 101m to 321m.....so a 320% increase.

E&oE

Yes, there are the share purchases. But also, AH has had well before his announcement as future CEO last July to take a good long look at the company. If he had seen only a company heading to bankruptcy, why would he have bothered taking the job? To trash his, very excellant, reputation? I can't see it. Plus, others have joined him at Capita and made share purchases. They are mugs who would ruin their reputations too?

I think we PI's need to be patient. Yes, there is an arguement for waiting for good news to be announced and then buying at 20p. A prudent approach maybe. I'm in at around a 23p average and am comfortable with that, at the moment. Will i sell some off as/if the SP rises? Yes. I watched it go to 41p last time and failed to lock in some profits. I think a few on here regret that decision too, looking back......9 trading days till Cap markets

True Aim, but if the new CEO & CFO don't know the answer, who the Hell does?

Surely bonkers to 'look under the bonnet' and then, having seen terrible things, to then buy £100k of shares only to then announce a capital raise which decimates it's value.

I get the short arguement, but shorts are also prevalent with VOD & DEC, both of which i hold small amounts of and which have seen the share price rise recently. Shorts made no differance there....

I think the shorters are walking a tricky tightrope at these levels......but time will tell

So, why would the CEO and future CFO have bought shares if there was going to be a share diluting raise of capital?

Differant author on this Times article from last November. But i certainly get the impression this newspaper didn't take to JL.

"Yet if this is a successful transformation, you can’t help wondering what an unsuccessful one looks like."

https://archive.is/54V1J#selection-2051.217-2051.323 (hope i've done this right)

Last weekends article reads very differant. Good times ahead for Capita with JL gone & AH now in charge......

"Wonder what'd savages assessment on the article is ?"

Why on God's earth would anyone seek the opinion of an idiot!

Long ago filtered, along with 4(something)

Don't subscribe to this 'free speech' idea. What would be the point of there being message boards, where people come to see & make comments on a specific subject (gardening, shares, football), only for folks to hijack it to press home their political views. Am sure there must be a sepperate forum somewhere for that sort of stuff

Happy Bank Holiday all......

PS; Very good article in The Times who, if memory serves, have been scathing about Capita in the past. Maybe they just didn't like JL!

Thanks Craig, excellant read

Thanks Rogue,

anyone got a link for this.

Fearless, if you are still here, can you help with this?

At last, some Capita related comments (& thanks for them)

Nothing but a sea of green boxes here as 2 posters who have only recently come to the board hijack it for political views.

Interesting to note also, that last Friday close was 14.58. Tonight we close at 14.96, after what some here thought was a terrible RNS. Market disagrees. Shorts a slight fly in ointment, but not too worrying.

Cap Markets next stop. Good weekend all

Both of them in green boxes for me Terry.

Had enough of it. When i looked the idiots were posting their left wing dogma on several boards. One only been a member 2 days with 32 posts of the stuff.

@Terry, yep, DEC xd today & up too. Only have a few there.

Ended 14.86 here. So the RNS has had very little effect on the SP

Cap Markets will be a big day. But not just for CPI. My LGEN also have a new CEO who intends setting out his strategy too

@broom, i made a similar post; & it was deleted

I have filtered Savage & 4(something) for extreme political views

Yes, me also. A good few of my posts gone. Maybe asking others to refrain from left wing political views is not allowed.

Citizen Smith strikes!!

Ah well, come back in June i'm thinking. Can't do with all this political rubbish. Nothing to do with Capita specifically.

So pointless to me......

Shame tho. It was only the other week i was saying what a great board this was, then certain people arrive to hijack it for their own macro/political views

I do hope certain people aren't going to turn this Capita board into a general election/politics forum, as they have tried to do with daft macro opinions recently.

Is it at all possible that we try over the next 5 weeks or so to keep our comments Capita related?

Hah, thought you lot were lefties. Power to the people n all that eh?

Total disaster incoming

God help us all.......

Only speaking personally i think the recent Capita share price volatility is macro related.

I note that the Brazilian Real has had a terrible time against the Bolivian Boliviano on the exchange markets of late. It goes without saying that this would severly impact a company the size of Capita. Tanking the share price from 15.06p to a dreadful 14.62p.

Dreadful times. My advice; sell up & move on, before the inevitable bankruptcy. Stick it all on 'Turnaround King' in the 3:30 at Chepstow.....

Well, the market has shrugged off this 'terrible' RNS, for now at least. Just popped above the 15p mark

Predicting a finish in the blue today here......

@Simples, this was always going to happen. Do read my postings since the appointment of AH. I hated JL, and myself, for believing his turnaround guff. AH, & his team, will cut the mustard. They will bring back the bacon. They know their onions!

But, there will be potholes to negociate.

Think i recall you are/were an insider. Always look forward to your comments.

Also DD, who has been silent recently.

Hear, Hear RP24......a balanced view

I am also in Vod. Turnaround story in the making there too. Massive debt. New CEO. Usual fools predicting doom & gloom on that board. But turnarounds take time. Recent better news has seen the SP climb from 62 to 77 pence. You just have to be patient while the new team at the top get to work. If some of you God fearing pligrims want instant results may i suggest the 3:30 at Newmarket.