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An investor in Wood Group, an oilfield services company, urged the company to buy back some of its own shares to avoid being a target.

Many posters seem to be in for a quick buck here and like a lot of stocks they missed the 6p 12p entry and bought at levels 20 21 25 28 expecting one way traffic and are now fretting, it seems over a bit of retracement in the absence of positive news.

This is an AIM tiddler, which many feel has such potential. If you cannot withstand a paper loss then perhaps investing in HARL not for you.

It seems few have patience required here and, yes the SP may all fall apart but more likely as contracts are inked it will shoot up again. 30p 50p I hear £1 or more.

In a bookies you get one shot on the 3 o;'clock at Kempton. Win or lose. With HARL you can lose, sure but equally the potential for a win is currently a daily race that will come through some day.

Patience is a virtue here. Forget about the daily machinations which may just be the market gyrations and nothing to do with HARL.

That said only invest what you may not need for a while and not get tied up with a multi leveraged position out of the money that you have to settle in T2 T10 or T25.

GLA with your decisions and your funds.

This reminds me of a shell company like Conrad - for those old enough to remember (Conrad, a shell, bought SUFC iirc). What a trip that was when confirmation of the purchase was inked.

I agree whoeheartedly and that imho makes it a likely take out target at some future date.

Anyone else buying?

fwiw I did decide to add 10000 at 58.9978 at 0946. Just popped up so will see. May be a day trade or a losing one, but at this price will eventually come good.

true but then inflationary was transitory wasn't it Mr Powell... before that turned out to be totally wrong and the marktes right.

I will go by the bond markets and call the FED wrong. Powell does not want the markets to rally big as that will hinder a slow down but all the signals are that the slow down is happening.

HOever the slow down is not a cliff face one and the multiples will soon reflate the reduced earning and then move ahead of the end of FED tightening.

Funds are awash with cash and will get the FOMO mentality, be it Feb May Oct. A rally be it a bear market one will be happening several timea as the FED fails to dampen the market.

Of course there will be flash crashes and flash rallies which provide great opportunities for traders who have funds to invest and hold picking up bargains at precovid prices including dividend paying ones.

Buy when others fear as when Sky BBC Newspapers report the market falls it is usually a buy rather than a sell signal.

So many expect S&P to fall to 3200 and then will buy for 4900 at the end of next year. Perhaps it will.

But should it happen then the mother of all rallies in a US election year.

My view is contrarian to that and expect the markets up before falling.

Plenty of oppoprtunites daily to buy lower and sell higher in many stocks on a daily weekly monthly or multimonth timescale.

For me, patience pays and no leverage.

should have been up 10% on the news, can only assume the general markets and US futures are holding it back but with the next rally... big up.

We are the BVC muskateers - anyone else care to join the band?

AM - retail has been cutthroat for a long time and stories of margin issues competition the normal.

Yes there may be bad news to come but listening to Powell live last night he was trying to convince the markets not to rally but he himself sounded unconvincing.

No one knows how it will play out from a mild recession to armageddon.... each scenario equally valid.

If the latter comes to pass then look out below, anything else it will be hard to pick up any stock as the prices will move to fast. Hence I choose to selectively add and wait it out.

Double triple witching today so expect a lot of volitility.

No more FED speak til the new year.

3 down days in any stock can be reversed and bettered by a rally out of nowhere so I always remain a bull but realisitic enough to know that you cannot time the best entry every time.

I am looking at the drop in HTWS and have added at 103 having exxited in the 140s+

As the BoD deem it a good thing to spend the cash on buybacks one can only assume that they know the SP is good value based on their pipleline visibility.

I wil back the Board to turn this around.

thanks for your concern AM

Buy reduce average down works a treat for me. I have a nice low average on the stock and will be delighted to pick it up at 50p today and hold for whenever. Not buying at 60p nor 55p, perhaps 50p as that would work for my position.

The point to take away from this is that the company, imho, is a winner and the volatility allows the price to be averaged down in a controlled manner if the entry turns out too high.

Others do what they want to, my method does not stop a price going down but the average cost per share does.

Trade often, trade smart.

I find that when the fear is the highest, bargains are there.

GLA

Headlines only, adding here. If 50p I am trebling holding. Doubt it tho Jed, but who knows.

Re the loss, non cash, explained, normal accountancy practice.

Group statutory loss before tax £(548)m driven by non-cash goodwill impairment of £(511)m

Maybe £3.40

remains in line with market expectations, with an EBITDA of c.$50m projected.

 

·           Hunting's sales order book continues to improve following further order wins within the Subsea Technologies business group. The Group's total sales order book now approaches c.$500m.

 

·           2023 market expectations raised with an EBITDA target in the range of c.$85m-$90m - previously c.$80m.

average rail worker

Hopefully the strike threat from these alrady well paid people will soon be over.

It is reportedly costing the average work £5k. If they can afford to lose that they need NO pay rise.

Philips, who joined Greencore in September, purchased the shares on Thursday 1st Dec at an average price of 64.95p each, for a total value of £126,652.50.

As some point inflation will fall, interest rates will fall, people's incomes have and are rising well and all the covid cash bungs keeps the households tickety-boo.

50p before £2 who knows but be sure that the cycle will turn up at some point.

re 1.
prices are being passed on everywhere with above inflationary increases as the public have been prgrammed to just pay, from fuel to groceries. you better beleive that the prices will not come down at the pace they went up and the increases will be baked into revenues going forward and any savings eg energy reducitgions will go straight to the bottom line.

Amazed that no one is pouncing on this Irish based company at these levels.

Seems to have built up new business during the time and will reap the rewards in the next few years.

Would prefer to see a dividend reinstated to keep the interest but 130p - 170p sometime over the next few years the sub 62p top up should pay handsomely.

Take out at 322m atm with nearly £2 billion of revenue.

A turnaround specialist could extract cost savings with ease. Let's rock and roll.

crunch time tomorrow how much over £3 will it go?

Getting very tradeable range of IN at 35/37/39 and OUT at 45 47 up to 55p over the last few months. No more lurches down please until I have accumuulated :).

GLA.