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Hi mate.

Like I said,I had only had a glance through it and those were my immediate views on it.

With a more detailed look, I could well form a different view, but like yourself,I don't think I would go in with a bundle of cash, it would only be a small investment for a couple of hundred shares as a small punt. But for my money, I think the price does need to come down quite a bit first though.

Good luck to you if you decide to take the plunge. I think I will sit quietly on the sidelines and observe for now.

Hi HunSen.

I've only had a bit of a peek at this one, but not fully researched it as yet, but my first impressions are not to buy in just yet.

Fundamentally, it seems as though it is going in the right direction as a business, looking at the last couple of trading updates but it's not for me at the moment for a couple of reasons really.

1. Looking on their.website, their products seem to be quite expensive. I get that they appear to be targeting (to my mind anyway) the high end market. I just think they need to look a bit more into diversifying a bit more to the mid range markets a bit more to generate further income, and of course profit.

2. The spread seems to be quite high. I'm not too sure I understand why it is like this.

3. The share price to dividend ratio just doesn't do much for me. SP seems to be a bit too high for me when I consider the dividends they are offering. I think that taking that into account, for me the share price would need to come down a bit before I would consider buying in. For me, there are lower prices shares that are offering better dividends.

It's a wait and see for me this one for now.

Just my take of course.

Cheers,

Trent700

I'm not sure anyone knows what normal is at the moment. HanSen with all the political shenanigans going on at the minute. I've never seen the likes of this bs before.

I know what you mean about timings when you swing trade though. Almost impossible to get it 100% right, that's why I don't usually bother, but that said, I just couldn't help myself with SGC recently. I got just over £170 profit when I sold mine, and I bought back in at £1.59. I ended up with 102 free shares & was happy with that as it was a result of sorts but if I'd waited another week, I'd have got back in at just under £1.30. Still freebies are still freebies.

Sorry for off topic everyone.

Nice you made a few bob for yourself there, HunSen. Hope you manage to get back in again.

I'm sure I've mentioned this already but although I don't normally bother trading swings, but I've done this myself recently with one of my other holdings. & got myself a few free shares there. A small little win, but a win's a win isn't it.

*sorry, HunSen, not BunSen ??

Hi BunSen

Happy New year to you too and of course to everyone else here too.

I'll look into hotc. Can't really say that I have heard of them to be fair but will have a look to see where it goes. Might even buy a few.

Cheers.

Trent.

Good morning HunSen.

Happy New year to you too.

As per our discussion on MARS. I'd not heard of this company until you mentioned it. I'll certainly have a look into it.

I'm not in here personally, but think something smells here. £2.2 Million from Virgin & Stobart? Why Branson called his company Virgin when he likes to f**k everything is beyond me.

This is the same man that sued the NHS a while back of anyone remebers.

Whatever the reason is, I'm happy with the move north. Hope it continues/holds.

Yes that sounds right. I'll be reinvesting mine.

Hope it settles.

On the sp today. Anticipation of a good Christmas/New Year trading update perhaps?

*uk companies are oversold.

Hi HunSen.

A happy New year to you too.

I think I'm companies are oversold atm mostly to do with political turmoil than the companies themselves performing poorly.

That said I'm looking forward to reading the update relating to the Christmas/New Year trading here when it is released.

More sells than buys, if the figures are to be believed, yet sp is rising. Very odd.

I think it's the Megabus division in the US Stagecoach sold off.

Hi HunSen.

No, I believe that Greyhound belongs to FGP, (First Group). They acquired that some time ago as part of the package when they bought Laidlaw. From memory, Brian Souter, Stagecoach's boss approached Moir Lockhead,the then boss of First with a view to buying Greyhound from them but was turned down. Not sure if First still holds Greyhound now though.

It's just a little bit of info just in case you are looking into it. GL.

Hi HunSen. A little off topic & I'm not plugging anything, but

I don't know if you are considering SGC or not, but just so you know, they recently sold off some of their American operation and have said that they are going to use the proceeds to pay down debt, so while that's not a bad thing in my view, but this means it will be a predominantly UK based business, which considering the current Political turmoil is likely to have a bit more potential negative impact on it's SP.

In a recent trading update though, they did post reasonably good results & so went up a bit. Now normally I don't bother trading the swings, but I couldn't help myself this time, but anyway long story short, I ended up with just over 100 free shares in there, but that said if I'd held off until perhaps last Friday before buying back in I could have had maybe 20 - 30 more. Still mustn't be greedy. A result of sorts is still a result.

Hi HunSen.

Yes, I really should check my posts for mistakes. I hate it when it looks like I'm talking gibberish.

I personally think that most UK based stocks are in for more of the same short term, because of the Political Status Quo, which will drag on until some sort of plan has been put into place and the markets have had time to digest whatever outcome we get.

For myself, my holding in both Marstons & Stagecoach are only small, (2000 shares in each) because I've had good service with both of them, so I am quite fond of them.

Lloyds on the other hand, is purely for growth & hopefully a nice tasty profit at some point.

We shall see what happens.

All the best to you.