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Thanks to you and Firsherking for the response and the clarification. I guess i'll just wait then for my shares to be bought off me then unless it somehow goes up the suggest 1.35 price. It's a shame that this company wasn't left to grow further. Seems like the loyal shareholders (those that invested because they believed in the growth of the company) aren't really considered at all. I guess the owners will be off to a sunny paradise in the next few months.

I'm a relative novice to the investing game and was lucky enough to get in on this relatively early on thanks to Paul Hill of Vox, so my question is; now that this Consortium take over looks like it's happening is this a share that one would plan to keep hold of and expect to keep on rising or would a 135 sell out price be the best to expect for the near future. There were so many suggestions that a fair price would be 1.75 at one point that I'm wondering if after a takeover like this, would a trend like that expect to continue? Sorry if this sounds like a basic question. Thanks

Appreciate your insights guys. The future does look bright... let's hope they can muscle into Europe which would make a huge difference for the upside in price.

Do any of you savvy people have any estimations on what the share price could potentially hit in the next 2-3 years if expansion into Europe does pan out? Quite a novice investor here but I managed to buy some shares when it was at 40p listening to Paul Hill's predictions. I've lost on Boohoo, National Express and a couple of others and didn't want this one to go the same way...kind of hoping to recover some of my losses. Thanks for any insight!

I mentioned earlier that CFO, CEO and Independent Directors bought in at much higher prices in 2020 and a fair amount too (in the 200 to 300s) .... so they clearly saw a good future for the company.....

We have to remember that back in 2020, the CEO and CFO and many Independent Directors were buying considerable amounts of shares at much higher prices (in the 200 & 300s), so they must have seen the company's future direction as a positive having loaded up so much on the shares at the time. I guess nobody could have forecast the world turmoil we've been through.

So, this is me being an optimist and with an average of about 1.70 :-) ... I just have to decide whether I should keep buying or not...

I appreciate the quick response! For some reason it was only showing me very old buys earlier and now when I've looked again it now seems to have sorted it and is showing the recent buys. I though that was very strange... and It wasn't giving me an option to order it by date or anything. Anyways....all looking good now....onwards and upwards...I guess we should still be buying in slowly, even at these prices!

So, I'm a novice investor and bought in here around 50p mark. I was just curious as to why no Directors or outside big hitting investors seem to have bought into this since over 10 years ago (that's according to the LSE Director Deals option on here) when the outlook looks pretty positive for this company with a steady rise (all going well) on the horizon?

Some people in the past seem to have bought very heavily into this when it was at much heavier dizzier heights than it is today.

Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. ..... I'm still learning the ropes. ;-)

Wow! Nerves of steel. There's your retirement money if this ever takes off again! Good luck! I hope you ended up being a huge winner with that calculated gamble.

Amateur investor here who has about 12K invested at around 1.65 GBP...

Isn't kind of reassuring that the CEO and the CFO invested considerable amounts here numerous times over the last couple of years at higher prices...surely if they saw the the future of this company/stock heading in a negative direction they wouldn't invested their own money into this?

I guess i'm just not sure whether to keep lowering my average or not as I hear comments about takeovers and mounting debt....despite the fact they just won a massive contract in Germany.

As i said I'm a novice and I'm just hoping this stock is being manipulated by shorters etc..

Agree.... this board is just spammed by the same people over and over. As a novice investor I come to see varying opinions and to see respectful interaction of ideas and opinions and all it feels like is a board full of teenagers with too much time on their hands.

If Directors were buying in the high 250s & 300s as you say...I'd hope that's a good omen that they believe in the future of the company and didn't foresee the issues with shipping and Covid etc.. and expected the share price to keep growing.

What they do need to do is improve the rate of returns if possible (possibly by improving quality of material?). Hopefully when the factory opens up in the U.S. that will improve profits and delivery times.

I also saw that Zara was starting to charge for returns.
https://www.just-style.com/comment/zaras-bold-new-returns-fees-will-inspire-other-fashion-players-to-follow-suit/

If Directors were buying in the high 250s & 300s as you say...I'd hope that's a good omen that they believe in the future of the company and didn't foresee the issues with shipping and Covid etc.. and expected the share price to keep growing.

What they do need to do is improve the rate of returns if possible (possibly by improving quality of material?). Hopefully when the factory opens up in the U.S. that will improve profits and delivery times.

I also saw that Zara was starting to charge for returns.
https://www.just-style.com/comment/zaras-bold-new-returns-fees-will-inspire-other-fashion-players-to-follow-suit/

Am gutted lol....sold out at 28p the other day as I was getting to close to my average at 26. Held out as long as I could. And now this is flying again. That's stocks and shares for you...was a pretty big holding too. I guess everyone would do this if it was easy.
Good luck to those still in...

I think people are panic selling now with no good reason. Nothing has changed with the fundamentals, progress, debt, cash-flow..etc...

Hopefully this settles down soon.

Things will improve. This is a solid company which is winning contracts all the time and is becoming the preferred company in other parts of the world due to its reliability, comfort and affordability. The U.S. is opening back up.... people need to travel....money is scare for so many people and using buses will be the only affordable option in so many parts of the world. Give it 24 months and this will be back to all-time highs...... imho.

I agree... not looking too good at the moment but I would still continue to buy on the dips as in a few months things will open up and this will go up again. We've already seen how it can easily reach the high 40s, so once 'freedom day' eventually arrives this will start to move. No doubt. Many positives with this company....just needs to be allowed to be opened up completely.
On a separate note...I wonder how their online games are doing? Virtual reality also to come?
Hate seeing this drop after a steady climb but it is only short-term.

Wow! 12 years...I only entered this share about 8 months ago....hopefully your patience pays off as demand now hopefully increases globally. I have no idea what the share price could realistically reach but a friend of mine who invests in this type of market seemed to think the JLP had a lot of upside potential moving forward, even though it has been around for years.

We'll see where this goes.... 20p onwards and upwards...

I just bought a significant amount more and averaged up to about 23p in the end. I was waiting and waiting for a pullback... but it went from 25 to 35 and now heading to 45... there may be a slight retrace in the coming days or it may retrace when it's significantly higher from the current price.... Wish i had a magic ball lol!

I have a friend who works in investments and he said one of his colleagues had chosen this company to add to one of their funds recently which gives me reassurance as well. There is definitely momentum with this at the moment.

Hope you're right! Aside from the UK expansion, it will be interesting to see if they manage to make headway with the US franchise expansion...that really could sent the share price way above 1.50GBP in the next two to three years (fingers crossed!)