Agcert is the offspring of XL Techgroup, a development capital group with an impressive track record. Its principle business is the development of biodigesters that help to reduce methane emissions - one of the principle contributors to global warming - on livestock farms. Farmers and companies in the EU are coming under increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and Agcert is perfectly placed to capitalise on this. Although a new company, it already has contracts of Eu74 million, including some heavyweights like BHP Billiton and Nuon. The beauty of Agcert's business is that, along with the initial sale of the equipment to reduce carbon emissions, every sale secures for Agcert a revenue stream as Agcert sells-on the carbon credits produced and takes a percentage as commission. With gross margins of 70% plus, Agcert is not a share to miss out on in todays world.

Cheers, DYOR.

Up nicely today. Impressive sp performance since start of trading at beginning of June - adding 100p in just over a month.

Mentioned in July's Small Company Sharewatch as a buy along with parent company XL Techgroup. 'We think Agcert shares will go much higher, perhaps several fold higher, as investors realise how strong this business is going to become.'

Chad,, i get scsw, on a Saturday every month ,,by the time monday morning came the MM'S had marked up this one and XLT so much that i didn't buy either,,,why do they send it at the weekend ,, for good reason i think,,i have another tip sheet that comes mid week and the MM's can't tinker with the price before you've had the chance to buy... I would be interested to hear any other view on this as i'm thinking of cancelling my subscription...

Yeah I agree with you on that one jimmy, but I think this one's got such a way to go I was prepared to buy after the MM's marked up. Im just thankful that SCSW brought this one to my attention - such an exciting business. Definately an irritation though with SCSW. Might be worth e-mailing them about it.

I only have a PO BOX address,, do you have any other way of contacting them ?
Just in case your interested the other tip sheet is Quantum Leap , ive been getting it for two years and made some really good gains from it . Cheers JB..

Just been looking around for an e-mail address but ur right they dont seem to have one. U could try e-mailing the parent company, EquityLink, at questions@exemplas.com. How much does Quantum Leap cost? what are its details?
Cheers.

Representative Clients

BHP Billiton
BHP Billiton Is The Worlds Largest Diversified Resources Company. BHP Billiton is the industry leader or near industry leader in major commodity businesses, including aluminium, energy coal and metallurgical coal, copper, ferro-alloys, iron ore and titanium minerals, and has substantial interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas, nickel, diamonds and silver. AgCert International entered into agreement to sell carbon emission credits in April 2005.


EDF Trading
EDF-T was founded in 2000 and is now firmly established as a leading energy market participant. EDFT is based in London and is 100% owned subsidiary of EDF. EDF-T is active trading power, gas, coal, oil and renewable throughout Europe. EDF Trading and AgCert International concluded a major Certified Emission Reduction purchase agreement in March 2005.


ESB
ESB, Irelands premier electricity utility, is engaged in the business of electricity generation, distribution and supply. ESB has been in operation for more than 75 years, operates a portfolio of 19 generation plants with an installed capacity of 4,400MW and has a customer base of 1.8m customers. ESB, has signed an agreement to purchase CERs from AgCert.


NUON
Nuon is a leading, independent, international group active in the generation, marketing, sale and distribution of electricity, gas and heat, as well as related products and services, on behalf of millions of customers. Nuon has completed an agreement with AgCert to purchase several million tonnes of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) to be delivered during the period 2005 to 2007.

Chad thanks i will try and email them.. Quantum Leap are at
P.O.Box 1638 London W8 4QR ..and you can phone them 0207 937 7879..or fax
0207 937 7364....

I posted on this around 21st june as I was told to buy by a fund manager--I stupidly didn't and now think I've missed the boat!! good prospects though,

Very nice full page write up about the business in todays Sunday Telegraph.

Joined you guys in this one, it really could be massive and a world leader.

Just seen the profit forecasts for 2006 of 38millin Euros on 73million Euro sales. Some will say its got away but I dont really think it as and the business should grow at a real pace from here.

cheers GF.

Hi GF.
I too like this share a lot, and tried to buy a few last week but was unsuccessful.
The reason being that as my online broker is now Squaregain, and they do not deal in this share because it`s not settled through the Crest System.
So I`m stuffed.
Regards.

Hi porky,

thats a shame. Anyway in general with a lot of the market today seems to be profit taking going on.

cheers GF.

On Growthh Company investor tonight.


XL TechGroup - SPECULATIVE BUY
Companies: XLT
20/07/2005

This is one of the burgeoning horde of financial entities on AIM focused on creating new ventures out of innovative ideas and technology. Many of these are following sector leader IP2IPOs approach and trying to commercialise university research. XL Tech is more keenly focused on a commercial outcome. Indeed, American founder and chief executive John Scott claims his team have a 12-year track record of creating companies of a significant size. His aim is to look at particular markets, assess the needs of that market and then find a technology solution to meet that chosen need. He then aims to float the most promising ventures with a valuation of $400m, or 250m. Scott managed to convince enough investors to raise 20m net at 150p at flotation last November. Since then, the spin-out of AgCert onto the main market has justified their faith in the concept. This provider of carbon emissions credits from burning off methane obtained from agricultural waste has gone to a premium since flotation and gives XL Techs 27% stake a value of about 100m. Two more companies are being lined up for similar treatment as well: non-toxic pesticide developer Tyratech, whose natural plant oil product has been shown to be effective against most household insects; and rapid diagnostics concern DxTech. The group has also unveiled a strategic relationship with major consumer goods producer Proctor & Gamble. At the current level, XL Tech is worth 173m. Strip out the 100m AgCert stake and 15m cash and the rest of the group is worth 58m, making the shares worth a speculation.



cheers GF.

Ive received a copy of Sharewatch today and they really are going ballistic about this one..........

They say AGCERT- - one to put the crown jewels into.

- We think Agcert shares will go much higher, perhaphs several fold higher, as investors realise how strong this business is going to become. (they bought at 170p)

- Agcert is already the largest producer of Carbon Credits and there is no other significant competition.

- Were sticking our neck out but think Agcert will become a FTSE- 250 constituent at some point in the future.ENDS.

cheers GF.

Nobody interested. Youl be sorry.

cheers GF.

Out of interest GF, have you bought into XL Tech too, if you dont mind me asking?

You have to be patient with this one, has had a good rise recently after some good buying. Also expected to be a FT250 company soon.

managed to pick up a few today-through Hoodless Brennan telephone dealing only--if anyone else wants to join in. I was told to buy these back in early June as the city boys like them--better late than not at all as I agree they will be worth holding IMO.

At last this ones coming to life.
cheers GF.

This is a very quiet thread. As there anybody still out there?

Carbon credits back in the news. Is today the start of a concerted push north for the AGC share price?

looks like it's on the way down - another Shares magazine recommendation.

So what's caused the big drop in price today then?

Agcert shares tumble after broker note
Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:51 AM GMT



LONDON (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas reduction firm Agcert International had more than 20 percent wiped off its shares on Tuesday after its price target was slashed to 70p from 270p in a broker note by Morgan Stanley.

The note downgraded Dublin-based Agcert to "underweight" from "overweight". Agcert gives farms technology to cut pollution and sells the resulting saved carbon emission reduction (CER) credits to companies that need them.

"We expect higher losses in the short term, lower structural profitability of the business and a lower option value than previously envisaged," said Morgan Stanley analyst Luciano Diana in a note.

Shares in Agcert fell 20.2 percent to 98-1/2p by 9:28 a.m., valuing the company around 166 million pounds.

The price target had been cut because of lower sales and earnings estimates, the note said.

The note reduced the number of carbon emission reduction credits it expects Agcert will create to 4,000 per site from 5,500 per site, based on recently available information.

Agcert said earlier this month it had finalised the first part of its planned 70-million-euro debt funding programme.

It also said a 14 million euro (9 million pound) bridging loan had been advanced by two of its major shareholders to be repaid by the end of March.

AgCert said in December it was aiming to raise money to finance further investment, with the aim of becoming cash flow positive by the end of 2007.

Heading to 70p tomorrow

On a Saturday? How much of a doom-monger are you?!

Are you dreaming, queen1. Today is Friday. Wake up...LOL

By the way, I am not a doom-monger. I'm being realistic with AGC

Apologies, fully awake now. However it was up a penny rather than down 11.5p thank goodness.

Apologies accepted

I still don't know what u r talking about... it was never 11.5p down on Friday...wake up...LOL...apologies accepted...are you drunk???

No but I think you are. On post 28 you said, "Heading to 70p tomorrow." At the time the SP was 81.5p. You were therefore suggesting it was going to drop 11.5p, thus arriving at your figure of 70p. It didn't, it went up. Which part of that are you struggling with?!

Are you happy that I'm going to be right now, queen1?
76.5p at the moment.

Of course I'm not happy you idiot. And they may go down to 70p and beyond but I feel you need to re-assess your timescales when making these insightful comments - which as it happens mirrored a broker downgrade made at the same time.

hahaha...that is what happens to losers...foul words start coming out of their mouths

Do you know, you're right you smug twat.

You are welcome queen1

Queen1, you are not bailing out yet? 72p now!

Nope, not at all. I may be wrong, and it's certainly happened in the past, but long term I think these will be worth many multiples of today's sp. That's not to say I'm not disappointed by the recent falls but I think over time (5-7 years) these will be way up in yonder blue sky.

Are you satisfied that I'm a 'right' idiot now, queen1?

Right? Yes.

Smug? Certainly.

Self-congratulatory? Absolutely.

Well done. You must feel very proud.

Sorry but if you got out at 81p as I've told u, you will be a 'right' idiot too. LOL!
No offence. That's life.

Indeed it is but as I pointed out in post 43 I'm in for the long haul and expect these to recover. They may not but that'll be my loss and my decision. I'm hardly likely to sell my holding because some unknown cyber poster tells me to - and that's no offence either.

I was just trying to help u, that's all.

Bless you

49p now.

queen1, I hope you are not still into this.

5.25p now.

1.58p now

hlyeo98
Yes but their up 10% today.

Well its certainly not going to recover now.
If you're interested in the market queen then I sugges Econergy (ECG), a much safer and soon to be profitable business backed by actual ownership of renewable projects . It also trades CER's but is not dependant on them, see the thread

This is the end of AGC, queen1...


AgCert says listing cancelled at its request - AFX

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - AgCert International Plc. said its shares have been cancelled from the Official List of the London Stock Exchange at its request, because its appointed examiner has concluded a continued listing could jeopardise the proposals being prepared to help the company resolve its obligations and maintain an ongoing business.

The company said there is no prospect it will be able to operate a viable business should the proposals not be approved by all parties and successfully implemented.

Shares in the emission reductions trader were suspended on Feb. 21 after AgCert said it had been unable to reach agreement with all creditors and customers on the renegotiation of contracts.

AgCert at that time said it would file a petition for examinership in Ireland, whereby the company is put under under the protection of the High Court while a court-appointed examiner formulates a scheme of arrangement with its creditors and members, allowing the business to continue running.