Why are we again at 10.5p bid?

It doesn't add up...

Good Results + Strong buying pre results + Christmas online buying soon = Price drop

Then again some companies that have debt for equity hanging in the balance, poor results and bankruptcy around the corner and they go up!

Why sell now at a loss?

Wont that be a kick in the teeth when we see 13.5p 14p again!

Best of luck all.

Oops, spoke too soon. Very few want to buy at present (although 35.7p+ trades are all buys) - anyone heard of any bad news? From now on I will keep my mouth shut when I feel a prediction coming on.

Begining to look to me like a rerun of last year at this time great excitment in belief of sp gain up results collapsed into big fallback, I do hope I am wrong, but there has been no progress since entry into TM100 .. ;-/

I always thought that the actual day for T100 entry was a side-show as most fund managers/trackers had already bought in anticipation of entry. Not that this helps us now.

Douggie you needn't worry. end of the days ballance Buys up and through the afternoon small sized sells and bigger buys. I think up a penny to-morrow, down a penny Friday.

It's my birthday started 68th year was looking forward to 40p pressy ah well

Happy birthday grandad ;))

Barlcays have now acquired 4.01% of the shares in issue. Promising.

happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
happy birthday to Douggie
happy birthday to you

Another volatile day i see, positive news of another institution buying

Douggie congratulations, what is it like at your age?










And behaving younger.

wrinkled, shrivled and pointing down I would imagine

Douggie - happy birthday. Let's hope RTD gives you a belated birthday present -preferably before 16.02.06. I notice that on ADV there is an ongoing discussion about whether the rns is actually saying that Barclays have bought or sold. I think it depends upon whether Barclays stockbrokers is the same as Barclays nominee accounts - I don't believe they are.

Pach

its very simple - the 2 are separate entities.

The holding under barclays stockbrokers is the same as the holdings by waterhouse, comdirect etc - they are the shares held on behalf of their retail clients - ie you, me, douggie etc

todays rns relates to barclays as an institutional investor - completely separate and a large chunk of it is likely to be their tracker funds

Fund - yes, I agree it is very simple which is why I posted as much on ADV yesterday evening. Strange how some people refuse to accept the obvious. Cheers.

Thanks for good wishes greetings all, the only good thing I have found each advancing year is that it is not as bad as it looked when I was younger ;o\

Douggie... as bad as what looked ?

skyhigh 65yrs when I got threre didn't look nearly so old as it did when I was 50yrs etc ;o\

I was told it was down hill after 40 but I seemed to be pedalling harder.

Anyone still holding this - I bought in at 36, any indications of targets/ timescales .. got that swimming upstream feeling ...

Chiva

yes
been holding since 10p ish and continue to do so for the long term.

Results are due monday week (march 1st) which should clarify the november trading statement of "materially ahead of forecasts"

recently seen new contract with macys/bloomingdales and Goldman Sachs and Barclays buying in as well as entry to the TM100.

My targets/timescale are quite long term. I am hoping for an EPS this year of 1.8p-2p and then next year of 3p. This, come monday week, would give a current pe of 17-19 and a forward pe of 11. With the current growth levels this still appears cheap though we will know more once we actually see the results.

Currently a lot more short term money in the share (lead up to results) and this will lead to added volatility.

all IMHO and DYOR etc etc

Me too - I think it's good news to see loads of sellers coming out of the woodwork now - this means that come results time we shouldn't see a cascade of profit takers selling off and the sp may actually rise when the results are known!

Within the next 12 months looking to 60p-80p as a reasonable target.

Agreed overgrowth

A fair number of ppl were expecting this to rise to the mid 40's to the results and were expecting to dump their shares.
I'm happy for it to go up in gentle strides

Looking to topup if it gets to 33p (have 20k lying around)
I am sure there will be many more ppl ready also