RE: whats next after boo9 Aug 2020 08:55
well done PP, why you could not posted this the first time round is a bit beyond me.
However, the ISA stocks and shares limit for 2014 and 2015 combined was £26,520 (£22520,2014 & £15,000 2015) , assuming you used both years in one go. Its difficult to see how you crowbarred your £97200 investment into it.
The shares were floated the year before at 50p and after the 2015 January update fell from 39p to 25p on the back of disappointing trading figures.
So you did not buy boo in the first 9-12 months of trading as they were falling from their initial IPO but decided to buy at their almost, all time low.
You had been doing your research so you knew about Boo before you bought, so presumably you thought they were overpriced before, but when they disappointed on their own guidance, which from a research point of view should have been a red flag wouldn't it?, it was then that you decide to invest £100,00.
This is none of my business now, so please feel free not to answer, but was £100,000 a lot of money to you then?
I ask because if it wasn't then the risk was much less and therefore the gains mean less (for instance if you were already a millionaire then the fact that the shares are worth a million now does not mean so much.)
But if £100k, which is a sizeable dollop I think by most of us on this board, was all your savings, you invested it in a company who's shares were falling in value, halved since their IPO of less than a year ago and had just updated the market that they had failed to meet their own forecasts.
Have I got it about right now.