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Blimey, every share I own which more or less avoided the recent turmoil is copping it today.

This one down 8.5% today.... and no cash available to top up on these supposed 'bargains' even if I wanted to... horrible situation!

Sadly not. More like a huge drop. 15% down so far today. Anybody know a specific reason for this or is the level of volatility we must all get used to?

I'm afraid, not yet. It's a nasty, nasty business! After 4 years of underperformance, it's yet another leg down in general small cap world. I am heavily invested in small cap world! So far I've resisted throwing myself off the nearest bridge.

Regarding IPX, any equity asset manager is a high-beta play on the stockmarket and clearly not a good place to be in the context of massive trade disruption and impending global recession. Wish they'd started pivoting to fix income, like, about 5 years ago!!!

Now I'm stuck in another disaster at the bottom of the cycle. Divi was only one times covered and looks sure to be cut, imagining the environment ahead. Interestingly though, some of my green investments (investment trusts involved in battery storage and renewables) have held up pretty well over the past couple of weeks.

"Not only do factory workers earn 60% less than Chinese counterparts but Vietnam also isn't impacted by Trump’s tariffs, a point not lost on US buyers."

Well, yes, but not any more. 46% tariffs (amongst the highest globally) slapped on Vietnam by Trump yesterday. Making predictions these days really is a mug's game.

...after a heavy drop today and yesterday. can't see a particular reason (apart from the manic volatility afflicting small caps these days). wonder if old ****ney rebel and his mates bailed, think they had shares?

Who knows, but if that's your rationale for holding on, you may wish to bail. I say this because the pattern with UK small cap shares over the past couple of years is that the price uplift arising from a takeover rarely compensates for the preceding long, slow decline over many months.

My rationale, fwiw, is more a forlorn hope that macro conditions eventually change and XPP should benefit from continued electrification, albeit at a slower pace. Not a great situation.

Down 8% so far today and touching 106p now. Is that an all-time low? I have no idea, my chart only goes back 10 years, when the sp was £23 lol...

Degenerating macro, already threadbare profits and a debt spiral they can't seem to grow out of... hmm, could be a lethal combo for this company.

Should've sold earlier and crystalised an already horrible loss. The only good thing about such a poor investment is that the size of the problem becomes smaller.

I read them as disappointing, moving from profit to a small loss, as I'd hoped that recent currency volatility would've benefited the business more. Nonetheless, we're seeing a "relief rally" this morning. I've been seeing a few of those recently for beaten-up companies that reveal no new nasties in their results. Question is, will it stick?

Blimey, the market has really given up on this share. Don't see the cavalry in the shape of M&A activity coming down the hill to save us either - hardly surprising with the uncertainty prevailing nowadays. Intransigent management is also a big part of the problem.

Understand all that SB, but the All-share RNS's that I can recall say things like "below 3%" or "N/A", rather than "0%", but I may be mistaken.

I see what you mean, but strange though that the RNS states the new position as 0% rather than (say) 4.9%, notwithstanding it's below 5%. The weird ways of RNSs.

...per an RNS released this lunchtime. Hopefully that's it as regards sellers...

This market is merciless - even a slight 'miss' gets the treatment. The sp was £50 a year or so ago, it's now halved and no longer expensive in my view. So, what to do? In my case, pick up the divis and wait for better times.

Share price up 50% in 3 days...

The Results really weren't that good, in fact they were rubbish.

But this is more than a 'relief rally', something's cooking...

It's looking bad here. An old-school global advertising agency in an era of de-globalisation and tariffs... whoops!

Should've sold out months ago.

24.4p divi declared for payment in the summer, but after that?

Bit of a leg down so far today though. Market giveth no credit. 117p a few weeks ago....

Great that you attended and actually saw them.

PPS. Think I recognised one of yr questions SB! Agree, they didn't shirk from answering them.

PS. Also didn't get the £10m cash balance for audit purposes. If that was applied to all companies, there wouldn't be many audits on AIM! More like they're itching for an acquisition. And did they specify the amount of the buybacks? No. Baines. I'm struggling to trust him.

Not that I'm selling down here, but throw more money at it? No way.