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The Morgan Stanley RNS actually relates to last Wednesday and Hopan I think may be calling this right. It could also be that MS are being sly with their accumulation strategy by selling and creating the odd dip in combined holdings during an accumulation day to enable them to release an RNS and to get more at any reduced price. (Sell some during the day to reduce the sp, to buy more- release the RNS later off that reduced holding on another rising day to reduce the sp to buy more)

I definitely think MS, or someone else, was in the market on Friday buying with a particularly strong finish and likewise I thought they, MS, or someone else, were again buying heavily with the good start this morning and a sustained finish imho.

I'll be happy with steady rises all the way up to shops reopening permanently and irreversibly and with a NAV of 82p, that being irrespective who is buying the stock.

There may be a couple more RNS's to come to cover the gap in days, volume and rise in the share price from the 10th March until today.

In Rita Rose Gagne and the results presentation seems to have persuaded an institution or two to get onboard.

NAV of 82p and shops just over 3 weeks away from permanently reopening in the UK has helped the mood.

I am always hesitant with any that get their IPO's off when the market is near its recent highs. No doubt it will reach a premium but its a lot of money for an app based meals by wheels delivery service.

Moonpig is another recent whereby the valuation defies me. Its the institutions that make the money out of these and not the private investor.

Lots of value everywhere at the moment if you think things will play out to the Government Roadmap (maybe reopenings brought forward slightly) and that things will recover quickly with any reopenings.

Was a good entry point and already in profit.

Banks you would think will recover well with the economy reopening and recovering.

Week 3 of 4 and the share price can move quickly and in 3 and 4's at a time so relax.

In Professor Smythe we trust. He has already done a sublime job of getting us to a less than 120 second test and with excellent accuracy.

12th April is the date top be looking forward to and we should see UK shops reopening irreversibly and permanently. Cash flowing through the tills should also dramatically enhance the payment of rents.

HMSO has about a 2 month handicap to make up in vaccine rollout and success and still imho being priced as if in deepest lockdown and without vaccines.

then everything on the present Road Map should be getting brought forward by somewhere between 2 and 4 weeks.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9360659/Daily-Covid-deaths-plummet-37-cent-52-number-new-cases-falls-11-cent.html

I ordered a hoodie to get myself back into semi good shape prior to gyms reopening.
Paid about £4.00 postage for the privilege.
Item arrived about 3 days later.
Far too big for me.
The items colour was also far darker than in the photos.
Return postage about the same as above.
Accompanied by repackaging it all and having to drive to the nearest Post Offfice.
Best part of a week wasted and still no item.
Might try "Next's" Click and collect service tonight as a stop gap. Overnight delivery to store then I can try it on in the car, roll of sellotape in the glove box and can return it there and then if it doesn't fit.
Failing that I'll be waiting.
Online can be good for getting the cheapest price but you won't replace bricks and mortar retail.

Its only my simple arithmetic but or the share price and market cap to reflect the net value of the assets (after repaying debt) I have it at £1.01, based on the present figures.

Is anybody else having problems with postings not showing then later sometimes they do, sometimes they don't

Portfolio Value: £6,338m

Net debt: £2,234m (reduced by £609m (21%)

Market Capitalisation: £1,379m

So my question would have to be how many times does the share price have to multiply to get the Net Value of the Portfolio? (Total value - debt)

But what happens if you sold short a dividend-paying stock? Read on to learn the answer.

KEY TAKEAWAYS
Investors who own stocks long are typically entitled to dividend payments for dividend-paying companies.

If, however, you are short a dividend-paying stock, you are not entitled to receive the dividend and may actually have to pay the lender of the borrowed short shares.

It is important to note exactly when you sold the shares short. If the stock is short on the record date, they will owe the dividend to their broker.

Investopedia

Just to add that if you buy HMSO shares at any point up to 4.30p.m. on the 31st March and hold overnight then you should qualify for the dividend.

It equates to about 5.9% in extra shares if you elect for the scrip dividend at the present share price.

So my understanding is that if you are UK or Ireland based and hold after the market close on the 31st March you qualify for the dividend. (as on the 1st April it has gone ex-dividend)

It is then payable on the 13th May.

Subject to being voted in favour of at the AGM on the 4th May. (A formality)

12th April for UK shops reopening if anyone is collecting the dates.

ger-paul, you may have missed it but the Ex-Dividend date is the 1st April and it is in the Financial Calender Box. I'll have an extra 10% plus on my 19p shares and between that and about 6.5% on my others. Will take the scrip option and keep for the recovery with shops set to reopen.

Financial calendar

Ex-dividend date (SA) 31 March 2021

Ex-dividend date (UK & Ireland) 1 April 2021

Record date 6 April 2021

Final dividend payable 13 May 2021

A welcome bonus I was not expecting

Good further Interview off Professor Smythe and now 2 weeks into the extra refinements work to increase the sensitivity even further.

*Less than 2 minute test.
*Greater accuracy than anything out there.
* Less false negatives and false positives.
*Lends Itself to matrix testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiD6KzueSlI

"In parallel to the sample processing described above, the Paraytec team has been using isolated lab-grown virus to optimise the operational sensitivity of its instrument for the detection of pre-symptomatic and early-stage symptomatic virus levels. It believes it will be able to confirm, within a period of four weeks, a lower limit of detection of 1,000 virions per millilitre of sample, also a market-leading value."

At £1.00 and I lose no sleep on this one. Simply wait for cinemas reopening announcements and the embarassment of rishes that should come.

HMSO was mentioned on here and had risen nicely and has risen further off results this morning, sale of minority stakes in some French properties and even a dividend as they move forward to shops reopening on 12th April. The worst probably behind them.

Hopefully more of the same coming @Cine.

Pickuzawinnah the scrip dividend at 2p equates to a just iver 10% return on my 19 pence ones.

I'll probably opt for that and let the company retain the money.

Well done all holders thus far and a recovery journey that should only just be commencing.

1 month warning to all the UK shops reopening and it will be upon us before we know it.

Morgan Stanley will only be buying more.

Looks like they called it right with their stake building

I think you might find that those short on the shares might have to pay out the dividend. In any case that's confidence that the worst is now behind HMSO.

12th April all the UK shops should be open, permanenetly and irreversibly.

Morgan Stanley now with over 10% and shorts will have to close. Potential squeezes to come.

Line in the sand and forward we go to shops reopening and my target price of 50p by 12th April.