RE: Move Off AIM - TILS8 Oct 2020 20:38
One thing I will say actually is that people are very keen to moan about Bushveld's share price movement and compare it with shares that are doing well in comparison but you never see it the other way around. The number of horror stories I've seen in recent months is growing by the week.
The most recent and high-profile one has been Cineworld (CINE) but there's been loads.
Amigo (AMGO) is another.
7DIG (50% down in 5 weeks), TLW, BIDS, MCRO, 88E, VAL, NMC, HUR, UKOG, and SYME will join them soon, and there's sooooo so many more have done horrendously and they will never recover.
Looking at larger caps, all the shares in industries obviously impacted by covid-19 have done awfully this year (IAG, CCL, EZJ,...), and so many other sectors have taken a bashing too - look at the banking shares (LLOY, HSBC, STAN, etc); look at all the oil shares that make up a lot of the FTSE (BP., Shell, etc); look at the media and advertising industry (ITV, WPP, etc); and so many other sectors I can't think of off the top of my head right now.
This has honestly been an unpredictably awful year for the stock market across the board.
You've had lots of new investors as a result of interest rates being cut to **** all on most savings accounts, and most of them have lost eye-watering amounts of savings, because they don't know what they're doing.
Many of them have been left caught on one pump & dump spike after another. Especially with pharma shares puffed up on nothing but hot air!
Consequently we're now seeing that pharma bubble beginning to pop. BRH and RMS dropped 15% in a few minutes at the close today. DDDD plummeted 34% yesterday and has such a weak recovery today I can see it falling by a similar % soon. ODX fell despite winning a government contract announced yesterday. And there's so many more to come in the months ahead.
So I guess my point is stop grumbling all the time about Bushveld having had such a bad share price performance so far this year, because (1) It isn't half as bad as many out there and - much more importantly - (2) this is a temporary state of affairs for us. This will 100% rise up again, and I believe it'll reach history-breaking new highs of 100p+
All in my honest opinion. No offence caused. I know it's been a very frustrating year holding here. I'm just saying we should put things into perspective and take comfort in how bright the future looks here!