Having followed this stock for some time it appears from searching out news and stocks to grow that this share could explode over the next few months. Seasonally, WHOG share price seems to benefit each autumn with the frenzy of buying Xmas presents for new generation Sony Playstation, Microsoft XBox & Nintendo Gamecube platforms. This autumn Electronic Arts is scheduled to launch the new Harry Potter & Philosopher's StoneTM game developed by WHOG - no doubt a big selling product - but will EA and WHOG actually launch the game in time as EA has not given out any press releases yet.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this subject?

I can confirm that both Harry Potter for Xbox,PS2 & Gamecube was released last Friday 12th in the UK. Battlestar galactica was also released on Xbox on 5th December and PS2 on 12th December. I am in the Computer Games Retail industry and we have recieved orders of both titles

They will not be big sellers but should do decent numbers.

I dont understand why WHOG share price keeps going down.

Hope this helps

WHOG are now priced to go bust. If any better news comes to light then we can expect a surge in price.

Highly speculative at this stage. The more cautious of you may prefer to hear that a recovery plan is in motion before committing your hard-earned cash - though of course, by that time most of the short term upside will have already happened.

I personally don't think that they will go bust, though they are likely to struggle, whilst the publishers cream off all the profits.

thanks for your info ARAWLI & OVERGROWTH

i now think it could take a while to pull back
from the brink what are chances of a full recovery
for the company ???

I reckon they'll be snapped up before they get a chance to fully recover.

A more accurate picture of the finances will be known after the Christmas period.

It looks as though WHOG will either be tapping the shareholders or institutions for more cash, which will dilute the value of the shares slightly, though the accompanying price rise (due to increased confidence) should cover this.

Here's my prediction (for what it's worth):

I can see relatively good news being posted during Q1 concerning Christmas sales figures which will knock the price up a bit. This is likely to be followed soon after by a discounted rights issue. The shares will then dip and waver, with a possible gradual rise afterwards throughout the rest of the year (as news filters through of new games developments). Take-over is likely to be in September probably by EA at 15p (any long termers still in are likely to bite the bidder's hand off).

What an inept piece of management and what a lack of integrity from the warthog management.They have reduced the share price down to approx 20% from my original investment amid talk of new games and upbeat messages. and then silence .......No news at all, but rest assured they knew what was happenning but communicated nothing. They are a typical example of why investors depart the stock market.Lets hope the management( or hopefully their replacements) put together a recovery package which the city will believe in. The rate of their demise and the lack of initial information communicated means there are probably others like me who have no option but to wait in hope for a recovery.
Sad days

wfagg, I agree entirely - we've all been done like a bunch of kippers.

Silence can sometimes be a good thing, though in this case we should have seen a profit warning much earlier, given all the previous hype.

I am well shafted in this stock as well after buying on all the hype about the Harry Potter game and Battlestar Galactica licence.

They have cost me a fortune and like wfagg I am stuck with them hoping for a major recovery!!

They cant go any lower than 2p can they?? Who knows ?? Bought loads at 17p.

It looks as though they are oversold now and that a recovery is possible (don't know about a major one though).

For most people who didn't manage to sell immediately on the profit warning, it's not worth selling now - better to wait a while and get your money back, rather than sell for beer money and regret it later.

Should the company have a good plan to keep the cash flow going, this sort of disaster can quite often be a severe wake-up call to the directors and spur them on to the previously uncharted ground of effective management.

Just look at what's happened to RTD over the last year. A year ago on the BB's (and in the financial press) all people were interested in was carping on about how bad the management was, now the directors have got down to the serious task of making money the company is looking very strong.

The same could just happen to Warthog. Speculators are already buying in. These are the people who buy in at the bottom and make a good profit on the way up to the next stage (it can a be very quick way to at least double your money). I'm not advocating here that existing investors "average down" because this can be bad for your financial health (should things go worse than expected, you'll be doubly kicking yourselves), however anyone looking to get in at the bottom for the first time could be well rewarded.

How many times have you done the same as me and bought into shares half-way up their meteoric rise, thinking to yourself - I should have bought them at 3p/10p or whatever ?

A punt at this stage is still highly speculative. The less daring of you still with an interest in Warthog may be more tempted to heed the advice of Rothschild who said his secret of success was that he always bought too late and sold too early.

The recent Looney Toons game must be selling steady,its in the Gamecube top 10 at least.Richard Burns Rally will be realeased in the spring.It has been getting very good press (game mags) prior to launch.It will be released by SCi & should be a really big seller.
These games may just see them through but they need to do the business with any new licences.Any clues on whats next???+

Warthog PLC
08 April 2004


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8 April 2004

WARTHOG PLC
3 for 2 Rights Issue of 73,562,166 New Ordinary Shares at 2 Pence per Share
8,500,000 Unsubscribed Rights Shares Placed

The Board of Warthog plc is pleased to announce that of the balance of the
non-underwritten rights issue, 8,500,000 New Ordinary Shares have now been
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2004, with CREST accounts being credited today.

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