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>Yes Universities these days are money making machines.
Seems to be they are more about business than education. One of my big take-away's from 2020 is that students now consider University an "experience" and have a range of expectations/demands for "their" money - which they haven't even started paying and may never pay.
But that is a whole different can of worms :)
>er no Gareth is the invetor along with the University
Inventor or investor? The former is a given, the latter isn't. So my interest centres around the commercial arrangements which allow a person to use their employment in and resources from one organisation to then gain personal profit.
I'm in no way suggesting anything is untoward as I'm sure there are agreements in place on IP and other commercial arrangements but i'm curious as to the way this works more generally and specifically in this case.
Thanks guys. I guess there must be some form of commercial agreement between the two irrespective of whether a grant was used. Would be interesting to know the detail but I suspect that isn't public info.
Can anyone advise how this works.
My understanding is the masks were developed at the Uni but the company makes the profits from it.
How does that work? Does the Uni own a share? Does the company pay the Uni for the R&D?
Surely academics don't do their R&D at the cost of the Uni and then take their profits private?
Just curious, not critical!
Got spiked in my first purchase here. Took a bit of courage but bought in at a low the other day to average down and accumulate more shares.
Loving seeing it go this way. Makes a fooking change!
Cheap entry it may be. But with losses mounting people are reluctant to buy more. Newbies should be asking themselves "how much lower can this go"?
There is only so long people will wait for something concrete.
I still believe in this company but have sold for the time being - i need to see some returns rather than losses. My feeling is, other shares will rise and i will use profit from those to buy into Syme at an effective zero cost.
It is absolutely time for concrete news though.
I tried but couldn't reach them on the phone. I sent them a message but don't expect a prompt reply.
Wasn't sure what else to do in a position where I was effectively short in a share through no fault of my own. It's a huge risk to a small investor.
Sold shares at HL to then fund a purchase. Ended up doing it twice because it appeared not to work.. then i found myself owning -200k+ shares in that company.
Couldn't reach them on the phone so ended up having to top up to buy the same amount. Knowing my luck they'd have shot out an RNS and the share price rocketed leaving me massively out of pocket.
I will be taking this further with HL.
God i hope so :)
...but what is driving it?
Rumour? Ramping? FOMO?
Was NT for me then, got in 0809 but happy enough with a little top-up. Brings my average down. Got spiked in my last purchase but not concerned, feel this has huge potential.
I'm not too concerned about the speculation one way or the other about consolidation but can anyone point me to something which explains the mechanics of how something like that would work?
For example, lets say you have 1,000 shares in a company valued at £1 each. That's a holding of £1000.
The shares are diluted 10:1 so you end up with 100 shares worth £10 each?
Would your holding simply change from 1000 shares to 100 without any involvement on your part?
Is there any form of delay which can prevent you selling those shares?
Thanks @extrader. Much appreciated, didn't see that yesterday.
I'm not a fan of creative ambiguity whatever the intent so the 1AF2/A1F2 confusion isn't on.
I'm torn here because there is clearly scope for this to develop into something big but there are too many vague statements emerging and not as much concrete info as i'd like.
That said, I'm going on good faith at the moment. Quite tricky when watching the SP drop back and back. Find myself asking - is it better not to watch or to get out. As that would now be at a loss, the latter doesn't appeal. Guess it comes down to a gamble until such time as some clarification is provided, the sooner the better!