RE: A 300% rise = £218 Feb 2020 07:36
A snippet from the financial the times:
“ Does it follow that long-only investors should applaud short-sellers for improving corporate scrutiny? Possibly, but with a caveat. The shorts have a tendency to pile into the vulnerable, not the criminal, and they can often seem blind to the bigger picture.
This time last year the most hated UK-listed stocks included Aston Martin Lagonda and Debenhams, which have done very badly, and sandwich maker Greencore, which has jumped about 50 per cent after a major restructuring. Ocado, consistently the most heavily shorted stock in 2016 and 2017, is up more than fourfold since the start of 2018 after the online grocer reinvented itself as a delivery technology disrupter.
J Sainsbury and pub operator Greene King were the most popular targets in 2015, in spite of the commodity price rout that would soon roil the mining sector. Even going back to the early stages of the financial crisis in 2007, the bears were mostly ignoring banks and housebuilders to target retailers such as Sports Direct.
The thing about vulnerable stocks is that they will often recover, which makes following the bear pack an extremely high-risk gambit. NMC still has plenty of questions to answer, yet it looks like the smart money has already been made.”
I do hop the stock recovered. I just don’t believe it will be in the medium term. We have a long wait ahead to get to the glory days of £25%. But fingers cross we can do a ‘Tesla’ this year