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personally, i'd wait for the results tomorrow before buying in.

i've been savings for years, waiting for a moment like this. =) i'm looking at buying a beach house property in 3 to 5 years...or if i'm lucky, a whole country.

see how efficient is this company? lol.... most companies just get baffled at these speculative occurences...like RAY recently.

i bought in at 18.5p for TW, for the long term. don't worry though...the extra cash will make the company stronger and the share price will recover. to predict possibility of dilution, besides checking financials, also verify major shareholding. if the company's primary shareholders are for example, a family trust - would they want to dilute their own shares? i don't think so(although you never know). if they were cash rish, they'd rather provide the company a short term loan than to tap shareholders for money. as for TW, rights issue was always a possibility.

A-2Tha-J, congrats! just ensure you speculate on sound companies! TallTony, cheers mate!

UNIQ is very volatile today. think there's a huge auction going on in the market. sorry to say this but if i were you, into long term stocks, i won't touch UNIQ today unless u want to risk trying to "catch" the low again. without L2 info and perhaps a stockbroker mate, risk of sitting on a loss increases.

ditto. i too, missed out. been watching this for 3 days. if fjp got his buys in, guess he was the only one...?

UNIQ shot up primarily because it was depressed, just like YELL(depressed by AXA) about 2 months ago. a hedge fund company called Steel Partners were dumping their holdings in UNIQ, million by million. so the share price stayed at the 10p range for a while. it was always meant to go up as long as the market was bullish. that is more the reason why UNIQ shot up instead of the M&S contract. the contract just reasserts the fact that they are still a winning company on a long running cost-cutting scheme so if u hang on this share, it will bring you great returns.

by the way, i don't have L2 info and perhaps BV57 does, hence his advise. i usually invest for long term, not in to catch the ups and miss the downs. good luck

wait a little while for the dust to settle, don't rush to buy in. once a stable price trend appears, u have a clearer idea of what you're getting into. as long as you're in this for the long term, it will be ok. i almost ropped up my shares in RAY at 25p on the drop from 30p to 25p 2 days ago. waited 2 days and it's now 22p which i feel is worth getting back in but my target price is 20p. doesn't matter because at least i've got a foot in. =)

of office due to a fire alarm, came back and UNIQ dropped like a bomb. what a difference 15 mins makes. nevermind, UNIQ should gradually rise from now on and this will be a stable rise rather than the 150% we witnessed the last few days.

so there is finally one stock u won't have holdings in! lol... =)

there's actually another sector that's as bad as property(or worse) when it comes to recovery...RECRUITMENT. in fact, unemployment is still rising! so perhaps try to avoid that until clearer indicators that the economy has turned around...like a slowdown of GDP decline or an actual turnaround.

i'm totally relying on memory...but if i'm not mistaken, RTY has retained earnings of over £100m? low vacancy rates along with reliable tenants with long leases. so i think this company is relatively safe, or that's the feeling i got from this company back then...again, relying on memory. if there were any losses on the financials, it must surely come mainly from impairment charges. i was trying to buy this stock at 7p, if i'm not mistaken. it was bouncing around so much and being played by the MMs, i just got fed up and gave up. i hate trying to buy into volatile shares. =)

cheers benjy, have actually already had a glance through this company and some history, and i have indian colleagues so i know unitech won't collapse. i just haven't done the usual deep analysis i normally do to gradually press that "buy" button. it would be good to know the exact time to buy as there are still quite a few other good, undervalued companies around and the funds could go there before jumping into this for the long term...

one good way of picking stocks is to find companies that are 1. undervalued 2. overhang/depressed - always check RNS 3. predict future earnings 4. check previous history for track record - winning contracts? age of company? profits? 5. board of directors - check previous background and who they hang with/use to work with 6. important these days, are they cutting costs? check cashflow & operating/administrative costs. 7. any reason to be suspicious of balance sheet/income statement? read latest annual report. there's a few more but most people run at something ridiculous(without thinking), like OH THEY WERE MAKING A LOSS LAST YEAR. but are they doing something about it? and can they last the hard times? after all the facts have been gathered, get drunk and press that buy button. =)

we could be witnessing the start of a fairly specialist company as the UK is going to be the first country to rollout smartmeters on such a major scale. from here, it could expand to Europe and take over the world...well, not really. =) the news :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8042716.stm the company :- http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=LON%3Abgbl the future? note the share price of this company that does smartmeters for water(and water treatment, sewage, the whole works) :- http://www.google.co.uk/finance?client=ob&q=LON:SVT if BGBL could even grow to a quarter of that someday, that would make my year already. BGBL is for the long term. Risky, but potential rewards could be really, really good.

Private Sector :- http://www.ey.com/UK/en/Newsroom/News-releases/Tax---09-04-22---Smart-meters Political(best kind of support) :- http://www.berr.gov.uk/energy/environment/smart-metering/index.html http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090122/text/90122w0016.htm £8.9bn allocation on Alistair's budget including "help for energy companies to install smart meters" http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/22/budget-energy-efficiency £8.9bn is a whole load of cash but i don't know exactly how much is allocated to help energy companies. BGBL must continually update investors on orders received or contracts won to help us gain more confidence. numbers are especially important so I hope that news will be forthcoming.

After some researching, the possible competitors/threats to B Global seem to be just a handful :- 1. Intelligent Sustainable Energy - they make smartmeters that break it down to the appliance's energy consumption http://www.ise-oxford.com/ http://www.isis-innovation.com/news/news/SmartMeter.html 2. IMServ - a subsidiary of Invensys, probably better financed http://www.imserv.com/ 3. Landis + Gyr - don't know much about them http://www.landisgyr.co.uk/ all these companies are not listed, except for invensys(ISYS). the main compeitive advantage here is that BGBL are the pioneers in rolling out smartmeters in a relatively small market of potential bidders for contracts, not including possible European companies. BGBL are already working with Comet, Leeds City Council, Nottingham City Council, Somerset County Council, ATS Tyre Services and Bournemouth & West Hants Water and the main energy suppliers. it seems BGBL is the only main supplier for most energy companies. however, i see this as only a headstart for BGBL. other competitors would catch up in a year or two and possibly steal contracts from BGBL. they need to clean up their act and start making a profit a.s.a.p.

I suspect the "third party" mentioned in their statement in february could be one of their partners :- http://www.opusenergy.com/about-us/our-partners/ http://www.bglobalmetering.com/index_101047.htm although i don't know for sure.