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Nice to see 4 Director buys on the 30th November. They must know something!

From today's buys: Barbara Staehelin 30.32 GBX amount 127,000 holding 170,000
Someone knows something, spending £38,500!

My holding is not exactly divisible by 100 so what happens to the odd shares left over once I get 76 for each lot of 100?

If £0.67 is 4.8% then 100% is indeed £13.81!

Griffiths also in e-therapeutics, having recently upped his holding - he's obviously looking at biotech companies with a promising future, RENE being one of them. GLA

Currently, the SP has nothing to do with the intrinsic 'value ' of the business. It is just down to those poor market makers/brokers manipulating the price to make themselves as much money as possible before it goes up when they can then make even more money. So spare a thought for them in the run-up to Christmas and hope that they can afford a few more bottles of Ch Petrus, Ch D'Yquem and Dom Pérignon Rosé.
In the meantime us poor PIs should just sit back and wait for the rise which will come - but when, who knows!
Cynical, moi!

Quite a few small trades this week. Employees, perhaps with limited resources. know something and want to make a few pounds?

Interesting that Directors bought around 165p in mid May when they would have had a good idea of BT's financial position ahead of these figures. They obviously can see how undervalued BT is.

Can anyone explain why people are still buying?

Previous post of 24 Aug 2020 13:09

Same here; 15,000 shares with an average of 365p! And we mustn't forget that the current 98p would have been 0.98p prior to the consolidation! See my previous post for my thoughts.

FYI trade 10-Mar-21 11:03:56 87.5021 3,700 Sell* was a buy not a sell

I do agree Denby. Like, I guess, many on this and other larger company chats, I am retired with SIPPs and ISAs providing very good dividend income from almost all my investments. It is such a shame that there are perhaps many small time investors who cannot understand the true value of companies such as GSK. So the people playing their silly, short-termist, self- serving games on these chat pages, knocking Directors, being economical with the truth, not referencing where their 'facts' come from, highlighting negatives and ignoring the positives, proliferate and perhaps in a small way their rants lower the price. But I do wonder how much they really effect the price and how much is simply the market makers and algos doing what they need to do to make money; after all they are not retired and, poor things, may still need to build their pension pots.

So here's to us sensible folk who are not going to sell this UK treasure of a company!

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FYI trade 06-Jan-21 11:26:31 90.497 18,500 Sell* 90.20 90.80 16.74k was a buy not a sell

Strange indeed when a company that is at the forefront of helping people keep well is around £13.50 and a company that doesn't (Imperial Brands) is around £15.50!

Thanks Chester,
It would just be a comfort to see the Directors regularly purchasing relatively large volumes of shares at what are, as you say, cheap prices. That would be not only a very nice indication of their confidence in the future but also an indication that they are not taking what I have called route 2.

Thanks again and and as I said, only time will tell.

I have been invested here for too many years and am, of course, down a great deal. Many years ago I had shares in a promising company called Scotia. When it collapsed it taught me a lesson that I hope does not apply here. Directors have essentially 2 options when running a company and looking to their retirement/exit strategy. 1) Build-up the company and sell it for a huge amount and retire with a great deal of money, and with luck still have a retainer for regular, on-going cash. 2) Rip-off the company whilst drawing a huge salary plus benefits, pension and so on so that when it does collapse they can walk away with years of cash in their pockets and a huge pension pot. The CEO/Owner of MD of Scotia opted for route 2.

Unfortunately only time will tell but I am becoming increasingly concerned that the Directors have opted for route 2 on the basis that the business is all smoke and mirrors that will not deliver!

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