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* There’s NO point …….

Sophie98 - Having endured a complete non-interview from elrico years back (it was more like a mutual appreciation fireside chat), not only is there no point in paying for them.

There’s point in listening to them. Or reading them.

Anyone who stoops to using a BB blatantly to promote his own business deserves not thanks but contempt frankly. The “free” months offer is a not very subtle way of trying to hook in new paying subscribers longer term. Must try harder.

Don’t be daft.

Why would anyone need to pay £300-£500m when the current market cap is just over £110m?

Undercarriage - SMT lists all its shareholdings by volume here:

https://media.bailliegifford.com/mws/jmxeevky/20241202111053_scmort-october-2024.pdf

So if you tot up their various Space X holdings, then divide by the total number of Space X shares in issue, Bob’s your uncle.

DireCons - I never said you did write it.

Just that there’s ‘a big difference between "aims for" and "achieves”’.

Is that a problem for you?

Morri940 - It's got nothing to do with class.

I've no idea whether you hold any shares here or not. Only you know that.

If you added up all the share purchases posters allege to make on these boards, it would exceed global stock market valuations by some margin.

Just saying.

DireCons - could be.

But there's a big difference between "aims for" and "achieves".

Morri940 - and if nothing continues to change, the price will continue to drop.

Good luck with your latest purchase (be it real or fantasy).

Hardboy - you're welcome. Here's hoping January's TU doesn't spring any nasty surprises on us this time.

To me, the current SP almost assumes that it will, as it's a very undemanding valuation at the moment. So we could see a fairly rapid upwards re-rate assuming all is well.

That said. we are talking AIM here. So anything's possible!

FriedmanSowell - agreed 100%.

Heard too many transformative forecasts by now. Particularly on Aim.

Reality rarely comes anywhere close. It certainly hasn't with Opti so far, though we all still have a glimmer of hope with Sweetbiotix. Until it's either dashed or it morphs into a dazzling game changer.

Mol - as you'll no doubt know, it's really not that hard to obtain eBay Top-rated Seller status.

I've done it for my own business without even trying. Would have happily done it for Opti too for a lot less than £100k pa!

As to extra costs from the budget, presumably this will be addressed in next January's TU or March's results.

Don't think they employed many on minimum wage, but there could still be a knock-on effect higher up.

I suspect though that businesses will honour their minimum wage obligations by narrowing the pay gap with those higher up the chain. In other words, they'll mostly be clobbered if they're currently employing lots of staff on minimum wage, which H&T isn't.

The employer NICs increase to 15% will undoubtedly have an impact. Hopefully they'll adjust prices/loan rates/staff numbers to offset at least some of this.

The NI secondary threshold reduction to £5k might also have some impact, if they employ any highly temporary part time staff. This may be the case - especially around the peak Christmas period - but I doubt it would apply to very many.

Hardboy - "For the current financial year, the Group will publish audited results for the 12-month period to 31 December 2024 in March 2025, as normal. Simultaneously, the Group will publish unaudited comparative results for the twelve months to 30 September 2024 to establish the base for the new accounting reference dates. "

Aquae - surely all that info should have been included in the latest RNS.

Not scattered around in previous interviews/meetings/subtle nods & winks/TW weekend p*ss ups?

Skid35 - but surely on that basis fair value would be roughly zero?!

Couerdelion - UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR:

"it's not clear that our esteemed CEO knows how to unlock the value"

To put in another way:

"it's abundantly clear that our esteemed (ahem) CEO hasn't a clue how to unlock the value in anything"

Agreed. I’d say a share split is unlikely any time soon. Probably wouldn’t have a huge long term impact anyway.

Wildbunch - if you’re that sensitive, you probably shouldn’t be on ANY of these boards TBH.

Good luck with your own research. I look forward to you mounting that boardroom coup when you reach the inevitable conclusion about IMM’s current Chair.

Letitrun - I agree with your comment that “an online investor platform is a little different to putting it in RNS which is shared with the customer.”

However, it comes to the same thing really. Unless you believe Morepen’s due diligence is so lax & incompetent, they completely forgot to read around the subject.

Letitrun - according to Aquae, Opti’s already done exactly what you say they should never do.

Thanks for that forecast breakdown Aquae, though seeing is believing & all that.