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Purchased a small holding in these as they look like a solid company with good prospects and should be able to bounce back. As with a lot of other stocks oversold on this one and unfairly dragged down. IMO. Hoping for a short term price of 210-215. within next few weeks. Recently managed a similar recovery.

I would save your money and not bother buying this magazine. Unless of course you intend to use their advice in the opposite direction of what they recommend. Shares magazine seems much better. Although both cannot beat your own research and gut feeling as it is after all your money and you should be less biased. IMO

I would tend to agree with you in 80-90% of cases. Although recent consolidation by Mecom (mec) back in July 2009 to 100p now sits at just over 200p. So whilst not great it is potentially not always a loser. I always think that the more successful companies i.e. Microsoft at it's height have a lot more success after splits. Guess we will wait and see.

Very good recent rise. Wondering if worth selling. Anyone else got any views?

Unless you paid 30p plus prior to the share consolidation. Consolidations are generally not very good news for the share in question.

Thanks for the update slim as it is and better than nowt. Lets just hope it's of the good variety.

QTI once again offer no info to it's Shareholders. Last update was early March and we are now in May. Surely they must understand our concerns about the direction of the company. Whilst looking to hold if they do come back, this lack of respect to the PIs is pretty appalling and would be a good reason in itself to dump as soon as possible.

Looks liek the MMs are trying to encourage people to sell with SP at 122p and the Bid Price also at 122p and the buy at almost 125p.

Should be able to make a nice 5% earner on this over a short space of time. IMO. Author now owns BG shares.

Agree with a lot of your sentiment TIE, however I have watched, brought and sold BG over a long time and they have always had rumours of a take over. The CEO Frank Chapman is a pretty smart cookie and I have never believed that it is the board's intent to allow a take over. Company has a strong sound management team and conntinues to find good wells and good buying deals Only downside is the very poor divi, but again has never paid a good divi - IMO. Author currently does not hold shares in BG.

Scrip Dividend Reference Price - Probably worth taking instead of the cash if the SP rises any further. Shame I deal via a nominee account and am not eligible. Goldenport Holdings Inc. ('Goldenport' or the 'Company'), (LSE: GPRT) announces that the scrip dividend reference price for the fully paid shares to be issued to shareholders who elect to receive the scrip dividend option for the 2009 final dividend will be 101.10 pence per share.

Then perhaps it will not be moved to the FSTE 250 and some of us will have been caught out.

Guess none of us really know which way the stock market goes. I too thought it would go down and sold at 712p. Still at a small profit, but could have been better.

This is where you can elect to take shares instead of cash. TATE will set a price for this conversion. If however like me you use a Nominee account you will not normally be granted this option. Unsure what happens if held in an ISA, I suspect this would not qualify either. Ask your ISA provider. Interesting what you say about Corp Tax, as that is also a reason for me selling TATE. I also dipped out a little too early on BARC, however the increase over such a short time was too good to pass up. Of course I should have held on for even more. Hind Sight.....

Reverend22 - Thanks

Would you also have a link to this Spread betting forum?

Anyone else think this will have anadverse impact on LSE sp? Sold my small holding yesterday on the assumption that it will plus LSE has had a half decent rally along with the rest of the market. Perhaps time for a breather and a small retrace in general?

Wobbly - Sold 90% of my stock today and will look to buy back in during the new tax year. (Must keep tax man happy....) Good luck.

If you are thinking of keeping for the Divis then, you may want to get the Scrip Reference price The scrip reference price for the 2010 interim dividend was 424.94p as per the T&L Home website. Dependant on what they price it at this time (current price now of 460p) this could potentially be a good deal and worth thinking about instead of actual cash. Plus no buying charges of course.

Had set a sell price of 448p, however whole market surge has made me change my mind and so still invested. Unsure if profit taking potential will drive the sp down a bit on Monday/Tuesday or if the general market increase will contiunue. Also unsure if TATE will have a large benefit from the weaker sterling as so many other companies with their incomes being generated mostly from outside of UK. This may help drive TATE sp up even more. US recession looks like it is further out of the woods than the UK, So again you maybe right about the potential sp hike. Have a good weekend.