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I have had significant investments in Loopup, taken out over the past 2 years, so am now seeing large paper losses.
I would like to take some comfort from the stated £50m and growing revenue, but have been disappointed too many times over the years to do so.
Until £50m is supported by the fundamentals, my expectations will remain low.
My main driver for investment was the CV's of the joint CE's - probably misguided?

Re management buy out.
Majority of ii's and private investors paid average of anything from £1 to £4 for their shares. Assume a majority of these will accept say £2 for their shares then to buy the 70 million + shares not currently held by the management will require £140M from sonewhere?
So not sure a management buy out is viable.

And a £58 sale drops the sp to 17.1p.
Almost certainly manipulation, by whom and to what end I wait to see, but I will be holding on to my shares to the bitter end for either to a very significant loss or gain?

Very good read, also gave me some comfort, as
I will be holding to the bitter end!
Thanks.

I've been watching and holding for over a year now.
With much good news the sp seems to have stagnated/dropped.
Long term hold for me until I see a good return.
Too far underwater to sell and I am optimistic that the product will take off big time in the very near future.

If new positions, looks promising.
However, could be replacements for staff leaving?
Hope its 'new positions' as I am heavily invested and underwater. With such a low SP, any share options associated with these positions could prove very lucrative.

Q52 Share your concern.
From a brief review of SF share deals his initial holding was c. 2.6m. Cost him around £3m.
Has since sold 880k share options and 1.08m shares netting him c.£3.5m.
So his so called 'skin in the game' re no. of shares and share price is maybe not his main driver. Drawing half a million pounds a year as long as the company is solvent is probably of bigger concern?

The BoD do seem to be treating themselves 'too excess' with share options, mindfull of the performance over the past year.
I for one have voted against the award of director share options - not that it will do any good, as insiders now hold majority of the shares.

On basis that the II's and BoD are not stupid when it comes to making money, I bought an additional 30k of shares at 25.075 - limit was set at 25.8, so ii did me a good deal.
On looking at the days share trades it went through as a sell.
I suspect that many of the days sells are really buys.
All skewed, as is the norm, re buys/sells

We will soon know more.
Press release states 21 H1 results to be issued next Tuesday!!!

Bought 20k shares at 11:13.
Trade record shows it as a sell. Many shares were traded around that time at a similar price, all as sells. I suspect many of theae sells are probably buys.
Is this a calculated ploy to convey a sell off is in progress, to spook investors into selling or just par for the course.

As a holder of over 0.2% of shares, many bought 2 years ago and now well underwater, my primary, maybe foolhardy reason for purchase was the CEO's cv's and contacts in the conmunications sector.
As a C.Eng myself, I know that Engineers tend to focus on the technical issues.
I want the Loopup CEO's to do just that, not get side-tracked with SP, private investors and the like.
All investors prime objective is to make money, not really too interested in the product they have invested in, so why should CEO be too concerned about financial ups and downs of the PI's, particularly short term and day traders.

By my calculations, based on HOT 2020 Financial Summary, they held c. 850,000 shares as of 31st Oct 2020. Quite a significant amount based on a typical days trade!
Could help explain the seemingly endless supply of shares?

A him. Been in Loop for well over 2 years, and increased holding regularly since. I will stick with them now to the bitter end and either win/lose big time.
A significant reason for initial investment was the CV's of the joint CE's. - I believed with their contacts/knowledge they could not fail. A mistake maybe?
Great Chatroom - read it every day.

See my post of 1st Feb 21.
I thought then it was a case of ' feathering the nests' of the senior staff that were/are being recruited with lucrative share option schemes, which could only be achieved by maintaining a low SP.

There are a number of Institutional Investors who paid 400p per ahare and know the true potential value of Loopup, so wiil be reluctant to support a takeover for less than 400p.

I believe Nico Goulet represents Adara Ventures so should be counted only once. Could be wrong?

After market close, just, a £110k buy. Whats that all about?
Perhaps some positive reaction to this tomorrow.

Assuming the recent and ongoing increase in senior management and technical appointments include for a share option incentive package, then a low share price is beneficial until all posts are filled. Typically share options are based on salary. Assuming a salary of £75k and share price of 75p then that would give an option of 100,000 shares in typically 3 years time. If in 3 years the sp is £2.75 then exercising the option gives a profit of £200k which should ensure focus and retention of staff.
If current share price was £2, then option would be for only 37,500 shares. In 3 years if sp is again £2.75 then profit is £28.5k, not too great an incentive over 3 years.
So maybe loopup reporting, is to ensure shares will remain depressed until all new appointments are filled. Just a Thought?

Bigbadbob. I am invested, but share your concerns. Current financials and short term potential looks good. Long term maybe not so good and that is why institutional investers, looking long term are being very cautious. Given time the technology of Zoom etc. will likely chip away at Loopups' USP and their sp will stagnate. Hope I am wrong.