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Not sure they did miss - they sold into the rise to £3.40 from my observation. Did they leave a stock overhang and hence our steady fall? My guess is yes as at these level aside of the last banana skin - OFGEM these are going down simply to entice bottom feeders imo.

Was the past two months a dream? £1.84p to £3.54p and now seemingly back to a couple of quid again.

Thank the good lord I did not listen to the jerks telling me to sell at £2.30 or those saying hold on for £4 plus when we were at £3.40 odd.

That said I did not think we would return to sub 16p in old money or otherwise I would have sold the lot. Hey ho lets see just how low this wants to go.

Buyer at £2.20 in tranches down to £1.80. Below that and this is going the way of the pear!

Give it rest Stanley - are you as boring in real life as you seem on here?

FUD this and conspiracy the other its all a bit much.

That said I was of the belief this was going to be a blue day at 8.00 and indeed was for a brief moment. Hey ho its all in the Game.

"Martin my huge recommendation is not to engage with The Snakey Keyboard. Really unpleasant person ."

Yet so many of you do. Why I cannot remotely understand.

Https://mfn.se/a/capita/half-year-results-2025

Solid progress against strategic objectives; full year expectations unchanged

Adolfo Hernandez, Chief Executive Officer, said:

“We are pleased to see good signs of momentum in the ongoing transformation of Capita, with a particularly strong performance in our Public Sector business, underscoring our important role in bringing innovation and fresh thinking to the challenge of delivering efficient public services.

"The total value of contracts won by the Group increased by 17% compared with the first half of last year, with increased interest from customers in our AI-driven solutions that bodes well for future growth and we have more than £4.4bn of higher technology opportunities in the Group pipeline.

"Meanwhile, our focus on cost discipline continues to help Capita adapt to some of the challenges we have seen in the Contact Centre business and we are on track to deliver £250m of cost savings by December 2025 and to deliver positive free cash flow from the end of 2025.

"The operational performance and momentum we have seen in the first half of the year gives confidence in our delivery of the second half of the year and our full year outlook remains unchanged."

Growing momentum against strategic priorities to build a Better Capita

Actions taken to deliver £190m annualised cost savings at 30 June 2025, which increased to £205m as at 31 July 2025

On track to deliver previously announced £250m target by December 2025

Cash cost to deliver savings in H1 2025 of £21.5m, reflecting slower than expected phasing of in year savings in some areas

Productivity benefits seen throughout organisation from our improved technology foundations, products and innovation

Recently launched Capita AI Catalyst Lab, driving efficiencies and higher quality customer solutions

First use of 'Agents', with Agentforce AI, powered by Salesforce, to drive volume recruitment

10 point improvement in Group employee net promoter score

H1 2025 Financial results

Adjusted revenue1 decreased by 4% to £1,154.8m (H1 2024: £1,198.6m):

Growth in Capita Public Service (62% of Group revenue) of 4% from contract wins and expansions of existing scopes

Revenue reduction in Contact Centre of 20% (24% of Group revenue) from the ongoing impact of previously announced contract losses and subdued volumes in the Telecommunications vertical

Revenue broadly in line with the prior period in Pension Solutions at (0.3)% (7% of Group revenue)

1.1% reduction in Regulated Services (7% of Group revenue) due to previously agreed contract hand backs, offset by the one-off benefit from a contract termination in the Mortgage Software business

Adjusted operating profit1 decreased 22% to £42.6m reflecting revenue reductions in Contact Centre and non-repeat of one-offs and contract hand backs in Regulated Services, reinvestment in the Group and the timing of the Group's pay award and increase in National I

I've had a nibble. But you are correct this is looking unloved (again).

Sold a lot at 3.40 and even some at 3.50 odd not truly expecting to be able to buy them back at these levels. Hey ho we will see in the morning just where sentiment lies with CPI.

Up will be nice but oddly down will be ok as well.

Once again SSO gets to the heart of AML's spin - usefully recalling the promises made that never come true. If his synopsis is correct Aston is fast running out of road for its current shareholders and simply awaits a Stroll carve up at some point in mid 2026.

I for one cannot see how they can change direction at this point. Anyhow here it is:

https://ssoreport.com/aml-1st-half-2025

Reading the reviews it would appear Boo have towelled it as far as customer service is concerned. They are IMO clearly going under as this level of srvice is the end stage of must B2C companies.

Sell what you can - this will be zilch soon enough.

Sold it short - now gone long.

HTH.

Weeks with no green boxes and now lots.

The usual trolls have turned up who exited at 2.20 months ago and would like their position back.

Filter the idiots or do not respond. Please.

@Sinkin - You have not lost your lifes savings here, if luck and patience are on your side then possibly your £3 average might be halved.

Investors losing money due in no small part to the dishonesty of the people in charge is never a moment to gloat.

However peeps on here were warned over a year ago that BOO was doomed, indeed I gave a timeline of events to signal the impending doom - a time line that has been spookily correct.

Save what you can here - last suggested by The Crowman a couple of weeks ago when 20p was on the offer the alternative is zilch. This bunch of market traders ran out of luck and chances years ago, only ego and covid gave them the cahoonas to grab Debenhams and frankly that was never going to work.

Mr Ashley like a vampire is waiting and not for very much longer.

Run out of steam. Since we touched 358p the direction has been down and sideways.

I guess the next legup/down will be the half year numbers. I am not entirely confident they will support an upward move but heres to hoping they will.

Be nice to see a contract win and some real positives in terms of bottom line profits be announced or signalled in August. If they manage that then CPI might well fly to £5 before the end of 2025. Which would be rather nice.

On THG.

Yes long time bear The Crowman has gone long to the tune of 1m shares in THG.

Speaking exclusively to LSE our bird brained investor advised anyone with more than next weeks grocery bill to place the lot on THG claiming it was "a sure bet to make you a packet".

Seen flicking through a variety of upmarket car brochures The Crowman never short of a bit of chutzpah seemed almost excited at the prospect of bagging one million pounds from his recent stake muttering do not sell before it hits a quid or something like that.

Ends.

Kipper9.

Who holds possibly as few as 20,000 shares here and yet has pontificated and predicted to the exclusion of all other companies like he had a few hundred thousand or many millions in old money.

What an unpleasant loser.

I have kindly given Oasis some of mine and quite recently.

22p old money was a sell target and it has been met. Happy to hold the balance - just over half.

Kipper - in the sin bin for you. Anyone who finds NF worthy of merit goes in the green box.

Sozzles.

He talked his book - ramped when long and bashed when out. Some times all in the space of the same day - NF was and remains an utter flute. Imho dyor.

Pontificating Chumpsters......

Nice - do you think "chumpster" will catch on?