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Thanks Wexboy. Vinacap been one of my larger hoildings for a year or so now and I agree that there is further to go. Had a look at your website - further ideas to investigate.

As you say - no mention of gross margin or profit or loss. According to the interims they increased sales (which they state inclusive of taxes) which resulted in an increase in Losses. So maybe today's announcement of an increase in sales also means an increase in losses. Not an investment for me I'm afraid.

JPMORGAN RAISES ELEMENTIS PRICE TARGET TO 275 (205) PENCE - and the share price drops 2%???

Nice comforting Trading Update today. Core long term holding for me - I make it a yield of just over 6%. Excellent.

And again. Anyone would think this was an internet high flyer. It makes nuts and bolts - for those who assumed otherwise. Not complaining - big holding for me. But it is a bit weird - not due any trading news until mid Feb.

Firstly I declare an interest. I used to own this share and lost a lot of money before finally giving up, selling out and moving on to something else. So some on here will just say "he would say that, he's a sore loser". Big difference between NEXT and SGI, the main one being that SGI values it's own stock (the bulk of its assets) and no-one really knows just how overvalued that stock might be. For example, they value stamp A at £10,000. No-one buys it but someone would buy it if it was for sale at £5,000. SGI won't sell it for less than £10,000 because that's the "value" of it in the SGI catalogue. OK - you decide, what's the value of the stamp?? Don't even get me started on the investment products they sold where they guaranteed a percentage uplift in the value of stamps if held for a set number of years. What's going to happen when these "investors" decide they don't want to hold stamps as their pension any longer and tell SGI they want to cash in (at what will then be above catalogue value). Doan1935 - I suggest that this is not a share for widows and orphans (not that I'm suggesting that you are one) and do bear in mind that just because a share is cheap (as in only pennies) does not mean it can't become cheaper still.

Good to see you over here Chequemate. Always interested to read what you have to say on the BOO board.

Oh dear - that probably means it's time to sell.

Ignore my previous post. Seems LSE share prices and "Change" figure are all over the place - and not just on this share. Doesn't make life any easier but I guess I should have noticed problem before jumping the gun.

Second day of big falling share price. Something going on??

Yes - another new high for the SP. But doesn't look like an especially high volume of trades today - so what's going on?

The high street fashion retailer Next will send a chill through the rest of the British retail sector on Wednesday when it sounds an alert on its outlook for 2017 amid deepening uncertainty over the impact of inflation on fragile consumer confidence. Sky News has learnt that Next's chief executive Lord Wolfson is expected to strike a downbeat note when the chain publishes its fourth-quarter trading update covering the crucial Christmas period. One City source said the trading statement could include a formal profit alert for the company's 2017 financial year, although the company declined to comment on this on Tuesday evening. Lord Wolfson has already attempted to manage investors' expectations for Next's performance in the current financial year to the end of January. In November, the retailer - one of the stellar performers on Britain's high streets for the last two decades - said full-price sales across its stores and Directory business fell by 3.5% in the third quarter, and by 1.5% in the year-to-date. It reduced the upper end of profit forecasts for the current year from £845m to £825m. In a note published on Tuesday, Deutsche Bank cut its recommendation on Next's shares from 'Buy' to 'Hold', warning about the extent of its dependence on British shoppers. "It has 95% revenue exposure to UK consumers where we expect demand to weaken for the next two years and since costs are already tightly controlled it may be difficult to avoid operating cost deleverage," Deutsche warned.

Am a big holder of Boohoo and G4M and thought I'd have a look at this one in case it ticked the same boxes. But they seem to specialise in selling products for less than they cost - a negative gross margin of 20%??? All very well having an increase in web traffic and users but what will happen when they raise prices so that they make a profit? Danger is that their customers will simply desert them for someone else. Looks to me as though they will be looking for another capital injection down the line a bit. Not for me I'm afraid.

6th January this year so hopefully similar for 2017.

Brilliant! Have now doubled my money. Mind you, I have owned it for quite a time. Can't see any good reason to sell up yet.

Assume paperwork was posted on Thursday - how long does post normally take to reach you from London? You could always contact Chesnara Investor Relations dept. Phone: +44 01772 972 050 Email: info@chesnara.co.uk

Do you hold the shares as certificates? If so I guess the post does take a bit longer to reach you. If you hold the shares via a UK based stockbroker in a nominee account then they should be the ones to contact you asking for your instructions. Mine are held this way and my broker contacted me on Friday.

Yes - and I'll be taking up my full allowance.

Blimey! What's going on here? Ticking up is one thing but jumping is something else.

Good, positive write-up by ST in today's Investors Chronicle with advice to "run bumper profits"