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"Ambassador Cruise Line became the first new British cruise line to launch in 11 years in May 2021, with its inaugural cruises set to start in April 2022. The cruise line’s ship, Ambience, will debut with a short cruise to Hamburg, Germany."

Private equity backed.

Smaller ships aimed at the over 50s market (sounds familiar?).

One can either see this as an endorsement of Saga's strategy, or simply as a competitor, or a bit of both.

Forum v quiet considering the positive update today...
Cake Box said: "Trading during the second half has continued to be strong across the group's store estate and online delivery channels. Accordingly, the group expects to report revenues for the year as up c.50% year on year, with adjusted profit before tax in line with market expectations."
Onwards.

Perhaps I'm being naive, but I'm taking the RNS at face value and not reading anything more into it.
Results are simply delayed for a week due to unexpected covid absences at the auditors.
For the share price to drop 15%? Markets are incredibly jittery atm.

So, an unnamed investment manager for an unnamed private investment company? Hmm, ok thank you.
Anyway, I've stuck just a little bit in here. Let's see how it goes. I think there's value at the current price but that's not to say in these febrile times it won't fall further!

But who is this investment manager on Linkedin, anybody know?

Sorry to see you go ragnar. I'll stick it out for now but faith has been eroded.
Having made that decision, I'm trying to focus, perhaps wrongly, on the fact that the company is debt free, still cash generative and increasingly cheap on valuation grounds.

Has anybody actually read the JP Morgan statement? If so, could they copy/paste here or post the link for the rest of us to read?

I'm reading plenty of waffle in the TU, presumably because there hasn't been much progress to report.
As others have said here, in order to increase revenue they seem to need to increase costs (staff hires) almost as fast... which is not ideal in my view.
I couldn't find anything re the dividend.
All-in-all, underwhelming.

"Depend what u read, but this is may an opportunity to load up shares". If only I was given that opportunity! Impossible to buy any MANO shares on Barclays this morning.

Now I get it. Disappointing trading update today. Now guiding for lower earnings in 2022. Insiders selling out last week?

Price action this afternoon supports you.

Article fails to mention that Made doesn't actually turn a profit yet. Still, every little helps as they say.

Absolutely. If I sold now I'd be receiving but a fraction of what I paid. Also in absolute terms the amount I'd receive is no longer of significance so what's the point?

Now at 62.60p to sell. Cripes, the share price is now almost a third below Berenberg's revised target price from just 3 weeks ago. Judging by the quietness on this board, I might be the last mug punter still holding, lol.
Another richly valued IPO. 200p? They were having a laugh.

You weren't wrong Paddyboy1. Dive, dive, dive!
I very much agree with your 'pump & dump' comment and also that the recent Radcliffe purchase is insignificant, especially when considered against his much larger December purchase, which did nothing to steady the share price.
However, I don't agree with your view that "this is the first type of spend that gets pulled in recession time". The property market is strong and house buyers seem to have sufficient liquidity (thanks to still cheap loans) to pay higher and higher house prices. In that context the cost of a bathroom is insignificant and past history shows that when a property changes hands there is strong motivation to do up bathrooms, whether by the seller or the buyer. There is of course an impending cost of living crisis but, In my opinion, it will be holidays and other large discretionary purchases that will take the hit. Not bathrooms.
I believe VIC will come good in the end.

Must resolve to stop checking in here. All I read is constant, mindless ramping from 2 or 3 individuals - I'm learning nothing from this board.

Investingcube are suggesting Boohoo might be the subject of a trade buyout. I wouldn't mind at all - it would put the company (and me) out of our misery and we could all move on to another, hopefully better, opportunity.
However, I'm not sure about the accuracy of their research: the 2nd line of the article states that 98.82p was "the highest point since March 21"!! Hardly. It was the highest point since 18/03/22 when it closed at 99.16p. In March 21 the price was over 300p lol! Who writes this rubbish?

Bruce, I know. A fundraise valuing the company at £100bn is astonishing!

With a media strictly controlled and unable to freely report on factory conditions in China, they do have an inherent cost advantage over western fast-fashion producers like Boohoo I'm afraid. As a holder of Boohoo shares, Shein worries me.

Paulof2, quite agree, there's nothing wrong with IPOs in theory if they can be made to work better. The so-called professional investors who made their valuation calculations and went on to buy at flotation should hang their heads in shame. Of course you don't get everything right but this one was glaring. I mean, they are supposed to be wise custodians of their investor's money lol. I believe this was the largest IPO of the year on the London exchange. Dear oh dear.

pasajero, with all respect to you, why are you posting link after link relating to the June 30th Interims? They were out months ago and we've all read them.

You're also turning this board into a bit of an echo chamber, which is a pity.