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I'm amazed how this stock has turned so negative when the news has been generally good. The turn from the peak a couple of months ago was caused by my selling a huge chunk over several weeks to pay for my new house. This seems to have spooked an institutional investor and the rest just followed....I've been delighted to buy back in at less than half the price I sold for!! Can't wait for the results.....would be even greater buying opportunity if stupid traders short this one.

Zam Chick (“Zam Chick”) Zam Chick exceeded expectations with strong volume growth driven by consumer demand. We are striving to make chicken more affordable to people in Zambia and to this end we were able to keep price increases below inflation. Equity accounted earnings increased a pleasing 41,1% versus the prior year despite the rand strengthening against the Zambian Kwacha during the year by 6,0%. Volume growth is expected to remain strong in 2016.

I wonder if there will be a September trading statement this year. They missed the half year one and we had to wait for the results. Those results were very close to an outright profit so I guess they wanted to wait to see if they could put some really positive news out. This time around the results should have stormed into profit, with other positives like zamhatch operating and zampalm harvesting for the first time. So easier to make a decent trading statement end of Sep?

Quote: "The increase in EPS and HEPS is largely as a result of: * Improved trading from the poultry and sugar operations * Foreign exchange losses relating to the Eurobond in the prior year " I wonder how much of this improvement is coming from Zamchick and Zamhatch?

Delayed reporting seems to have disguised this large buy? which is the only reason I can see for the sudden shift in sp

https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&ved=0CB8QqQIoADAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.investing.com%2Fanalysis%2Fzambeef-products-256074&ei=aWGLVe6qFsW2UYmTgpAD&usg=AFQjCNHR-NLg7KTdhakUGv7dRfL7MZdOLQ&bvm=bv.96782255,d.d24

Not bad to be mentioned as one of only a few relevant companies when discussing the set-up of the TFTA and eventually the African Economic Community. https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEIQqQIoADAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peruviantimes.com%2F23%2Fcairo-to-cape-town-new-free-trade-super-bloc%2F24526%2F&ei=kWCLVcfLGcy0Uar5gYgJ&usg=AFQjCNE-2iwhov54SZs86mynX3Dhm81p6A&bvm=bv.96782255,d.d24

Reading around our investment it would appear to be a good policy not to be showing profits right now in Zambia. The government coffers are empty. Lots of stuff growing though like zampalm, zamhatch

So when can we expect any news that will shift this sp? Company looks like a bargain but no-one new is looking, all us oldies are just getting cynical and the analysts meeting didn't even seem to trigger even a mild punt. Do we have to wait until the Autumn for a full year profit, dividends etc. Come back St Leger day?

The market was very slow to react back in February when all the good news about Zamanita sale and director purchases came through. That's when I bought in and was surprised the market waited until after the weekend. My guess is that new investors are too busy midweek to study a potentially risky investment. Still a no-brainer for me especially as directors don't give up 20% salary for pipe-dream options at double treble quadruple gains

At first I thought they would give a half year trading report on the last day of the period as for previous couple of years. Then that info would come out at the EGM. Now I am thinking that it may come out with a concluded deal over Zamanita on 1st May. However my gut tells me they wIll wait for the actual results to be prepared which seems to take them 2 months following the period end.

Do we think there will be a half year trading statement on 31st March as for last couple of years? Or will they wait for the EGM. My gut tells me they may wait for the approval at the EGM to buy own shares, immediately buy the requirement for the new options and only then release the half year trading news which should be good and make the sp rise. Better for consistency if the half year trading comes out on 31st.

We had a new market maker come on board about the time the rise following director buys faltered and then fell. Being a bit simple, wouldn't a mm need to build up a few shares especially if the share price is expected to rise? If the mm can persuade the short term profit takers to sell out, he can pick up those shares by shaking the tree. Unlikely to find many more of that type of sellers at this price. Also EGM notice timed so that half year figures will be known, one step further in Zamanita sale will be confirmed by vote, and joint CEOs taking a pay cut to get options at a great price. Cannot see where any negative sentiment can be coming from driving sales except for the new mm trying to get ahead of the game before the rise. Am I just too optimistic?

The picture of share trades is looking distorted as I have bought three times in the last few days and have noticed they were all marked up as sales. If you look at the last 10 or so trades around 14.10/14.09 they are all marked as sales but they were probably purchases. The figure of 14.10 takes the apparent transaction price to just below the mid-value between offer/bid making these automated sites view the transaction as a sale. This looks like a deliberately chosen figure to manipulate how investors view the current flow of transactions. If the last 15 transactions were all showing as purchases, there would be a lot more upward pressure.

I like to apply personal experience to investing. My small personal experience of working in Africa involved promoting Zulus at the end of the Apartheid era. What do Zulus buy when they get a bit more money in their pocket? Not a bigger telly! One bought crocodile shoes and got a mistress, the other bought cattle to buy a second wife. Zambeef make shoes and cattle - what could be a better play for increasing wealth in Africa?