Finncap - Another Consideration14 Mar 2021 11:26
Good Morning,
I support the views BigJock has posted regards Finncap but I’d like to offer another consideration regards this broker.
Some months ago MB kindly shared a projection of where he thought the SP might get to if ODX could sell all they could produce. From memory he suggested this might be between £4.81 to £7.70 (based on a 5 or 8 multiplier) He backed this up with all his workings. This may seem high but even if you went with a multiplier half the lower range (2.5) it is very significant in a positive way. So surely this is important for Finncap to promote?
Since MB’s projection other posters on LSE and twitter have done likewise. I have posed the question a couple of times (to Walbrook) why can Finncap not publish a broker target? Apparently they just don’t have enough information? You might agree and there are certainly many variables but, and maybe I’m just an awkward individual, but I don’t accept the argument. All forecasts are just that, a prediction based on the best information you have at that time. As long as you set out your workings and the assumptions you have made I’m sure most people would say that is reasonable.
Can any investor recall a situation where a broker has offered an SP target for the next 12 months and then when a year has passed they happily announce that the SP did in fact achieve what they predicted? I cannot honestly recall in 12 years any broker successfully forecasting a company’s SP. To be fair it is difficult to do. So I come back to my point, why are FinnCap, apparently, so reluctant to do so? I believe this is important as I imagine if Finncap produced a brokers note presented in the manner MB did, it would reach new investors and perhaps lift the SP 10%, or at least smash 99p! In my opinion they seem a long way from wanting to promote all the excellent work Colin and his team are undertaking and it just seems very odd to me.
ATB
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