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CFA CAPITAL - EXCITING YEAR AHEAD (DGT)     

SueHelen - 31 Mar 2004 10:42

Final Results Due In March 2005.

http://www.cityfin.co.uk
Trades over 450,000 shares are delayed in reporting by 1 Hour.

One of City Financial Associates (CFP's) main operating goals is to bring fledgling companies to the market. With the depressed stock market over the last few years many potential clients have deffered entry to the LSE. Markets have now turned and the reality of a sucession of new floatations is growing. CFP are well positioned to enjoy the rewards that will be benefited to them in this growing market place.

Why the EXCITEMENT - will here are the reasons why I think we're on a winner.

1) My motto is when it's comes to investing there are three things. Management, management and management. With any good investment - the management should be the driving force in a company. Can they cut the mustard, are they dynamic, do they have good contacts? I think so if you read the following profile.

Stephen Barclay, Executive Chairman

Stephen Barclay, aged 61, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1964 with Robson Rhodes before obtaining an MBA degree from Wharton Business School in 1967. In 1989, after a career during which he reorganised various companies, he established City Financial Associates Plc (formerly Clifton Financial Associates Plc) to provide corporate finance advice to small to medium sized private and public companies. In August 1998, City Financial Associates Plc was purchased by Talisman House Plc (now Seymour Pierce Group Plc) where he became group executive chairman. In December 1998, Talisman House Plc purchased an institutional stockbroker, Seymour Pierce Limited, where he became executive chairman. He resigned as a director of Seymour Pierce Group Plc and various other group companies at the end of March 2001 to found CFA Capital Group Plc. He is a director of a number of public companies including MICE Group Plc and Talisman First Venture Capital Trust Plc and is a governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

John Shaw, Executive Director

John Shaw, aged 54, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1975 with Touche Ross & Co in London. Subsequently he spent two years seconded to the Quotations Department of the London Stock Exchange returning to Touche Ross & Co to join the Corporate Finance Group until 1982. After a period as a sole practitioner, he joined Chase Investment Bank Limited in 1985, was appointed a director and founded the Equity Investment Group, formed to invest in unquoted companies. In 1990 he joined Henry Ansbacher & Co Limited as an Assistant Director of Corporate Finance. He started working with City Financial Associates Plc in early 1995 and was appointed a director in December 1996. He was appointed a director of Seymour Pierce Limited in December 1998 where he was initially Head of Corporate Finance and latterly Head of Private Equity. He resigned from Seymour Pierce Limited and various other group companies at the end of March 2001 to found CFA Capital Group Plc.

2) They have turned a 2 million loss into nearly a profit if you ignore costs for discontinuing operations - that some turn around.

3) With only small market capital of 3.83M it's feasible to suggest they could make a good profit this year as they have already got off to a good start signing more clients.

A profit of half million would give a pe ratio of 7.66

1 million a pe ratio of 3.83

1.5 million a pe ratio of 2.55

2 million a pe ratio of 1.91.

So it would only take a small profit to make this company super undervalued. Consider the possibility they could achieve a 2 million profit this year, which is the least, I expect, we could be looking at a share price of 7p. YES THAT'S 7P (An average p/e for the sector is 16.) Even with a profit of only 1 million that's still an upside of 3.5p.

3) Consider the fact that some of their clients pay their fee by way of giving large share holdings to CFP. All it would take is two or three creamy companies to give them valuable portfolio holding which they could cash in at a substantial return.

4) The IPO is sector has already increased three fold this year. More and more companies are coming into AIM and from abroad then ever before. Rules have changed where foreign companies can use a fast track scheme to get on board more quickly then ever before. I'm sure CFA Associates are well positioned to benefit with this increase in volume.

5) We could see a re-rating this year in this sector, which would be the cherry on the top.

I rest my case, to me this is a no brainer unless you want to wait for the next results for proof they have achieved profitability. If that's your cautious approach, fine but by then, you can then expect a much higher share price then now.

Major Shareholdings:
Stephen John Barclay 64,600,000 11.66%
Pershing Keen Noms Ltd 49,610,000 8.95%
John Richard Shaw 29,400,000 5.31%

RNS Number:9414C
CFA Capital Group PLC
15 September 2004

CFA Capital Group plc
Interim results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2004
CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

Highlights

* Nominated Adviser to 20 AIM companies - broker to 15 AIM companies

* Currently handling a number of AIM flotations and other major transactions

* Strong second-half order book - solid outlook for year

* Turnover for the period up 95% to #510,000 (6 months to 30 June 2003:
#262,000 from continuing operations)

* Losses before taxation of #58,000, (loss 6 months to 30 June 2003:
#208,000 from continuing operations)

* Currently recruiting to further strengthen team

Introduction
I am pleased to announce that CFA is now retained as Nominated Adviser to 20 AIM
companies and broker to 16 AIM companies. The company is currently working on a
number of AIM flotations and other major transactions, and as such has built a
strong order book for the second half of 2004. The fees generated by this
activity, taken together with our underlying retainer income and largely-fixed
overhead base, leaves us well-positioned for a satisfactory outcome to the year
as a whole.

Sharply reduced losses for the first half were achieved even though we had to
incur costs on two flotations that were not completed until July 2004 which
generated revenues of #225,000. These revenues were not recognised in the
results to 30 June 2004.

Turnover for the period nonetheless increased 95% to #510,000 (6 months to 30
June 2003: #262,000 from continuing operations), with losses before taxation of
#58,000 showing a marked improvement from #208,000 (6 months to June 2003 -
continuing operations).

Following the sale of CFA Securities Limited in 2003, CFA is now firmly focused
on servicing the needs of clients who are essentially AIM listed companies run
by entrepreneurs. We now have a team of eight, comprising executives and support
staff, providing corporate finance and broking advice. We are in the process of
recruiting further executives to join the team. This recruitment will ensure
client service levels are maintained as we meet the increasing demand for our
services.

In accordance with my statement on the results for the year to 31 December 2003,
CFA started the beginning of 2004 with a good pipeline of work and with a degree
of optimism that market conditions would enable these deals to be completed and
this was the case in the first quarter to 31 March 2004. However, in the second
quarter, in a number of cases transactions that we anticipated completing in the
first half have either been completed since the end of June or have been
deferred. This adversely affected our earlier expectations of financial
performance in the first half of the year.

Financial review
Despite these factors CFA achieved a creditable result in the first half.
Turnover was #510,000 (6 months ended 30 June 2003: #262,000 from continuing
operations), overheads (including plc running costs) were #609,000 (2003:
#458,000 on continuing operations) and the loss before taxation for the period
was #58,000 (6 months ended 2003: loss #208,000).

These results need to be seen in the context of our having completed the
flotation of Smallbone plc (admitted to AIM on 26 July) and Ragusa Capital plc
(admitted to AIM on 15 July). No income is taken into account in the period in
respect of these transactions, although a significant amount of the costs
relating to these flotations were incurred in the period.

CFA is now retained as Nominated Adviser to 20 AIM companies and retained Broker
to AIM 15 companies. Annualised recurring income currently totals over #340,000
representing approximately 30 per cent of total budgeted group costs, and we
anticipate that our level of retainers and this source of revenue will show a
significant increase by the year end. Our increasing base of retained clients
not only provides a source of recurring revenue but is also a prime source of
transactions.

On 27 May 2004 we announced a placing of 65 million new ordinary shares at a
price of 0.7p per share, to raise #441,340 net of expenses. As at 31 December
2003 the net assets of CFA Capital Group plc were #534,000. The impact of the
placing and the small loss in the period, has been to increase the Group's net
worth as at 30 June 2004 to #914,000, creating a sound financial base.

Current trading
We currently have a strong order book both in respect of a number of AIM
flotations and other transactions partially arising through our existing client
base. On the basis that we complete a good number of these transactions, we
anticipate a satisfactory outcome for the year as a whole.

Summary
On 31 July 2004, John Shaw stood down as a Director of CFA Capital Group plc and
all Group companies. John has worked with me for over 10 years and was a founder
shareholder of the Company in 2001. The Board thanks John for his significant
contribution and wishes him well for the future.

The Board also extends its thanks to the entire team for their efforts so far
this year.

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Ted1 - 03 Aug 2004 17:02 - 889 of 1892

The Dead
Your right shouldn't take the mic.

deadfred - 03 Aug 2004 17:34 - 890 of 1892

the saurus is my kind of man think and act positive and this little gem will be making you the mein man

imho

taylormade - 03 Aug 2004 17:51 - 891 of 1892

bosley - 03 Aug 2004 17:52 - 892 of 1892

what happened today? i looked and it was down 11%, i look now and its up15%
whats going on?

taylormade - 03 Aug 2004 17:52 - 893 of 1892

taylormade - 03 Aug 2004 17:55 - 894 of 1892

i topped up with two 200,000 buys today. but only one lot registered as a buy the other came up as a sell. dont know why? beyond me.pehaps the mm are hiding some for now.

deadfred - 03 Aug 2004 18:45 - 895 of 1892

bosley old chap as i told you the dead has arisen

must trust more

lol

Happy1 - 03 Aug 2004 23:11 - 896 of 1892

I don't doubt that you will make money here but the potentil in FAR is also good. Have a look at the amount of stock in issue !! If there is any good news then it is going to fly beyond your wildest dreams !

CFP is a good company and i rode the ride from .5 to 1.5 so am very happy. FAR seems to possibly be the next CFP adn many people will look into micro caps in a volatile market.

Thats the last post re FAR from me. If you don't buy then up to you but stick it on your monitors atleast.

Good luck folks.

deadfred - 04 Aug 2004 12:04 - 897 of 1892

romper imho

slmchow - 04 Aug 2004 13:03 - 898 of 1892

Sue current list if clients for you to update your header

SHM shelton (martin)group - N & B
FEI fundamental-e invest.- N & B
IGL interactive digital solutions - N & B
CST constellation corporation - N & B
PAA parallel media Group plc - N & B
DVS designer vision - N & B
QES quintessentially english plc -N & B
DINK dinkie heel plc - N & B
SBG sbs group plc - N & B
ATR alltrue invest plc - N & B
USA ragusa capital - N & B
SML smallbone plc - N & B

LTW london town - B
VOS Voss Net plc - B

DOC documedia solutions - N
TLG 2 travel group - N
TGM tellings golden miller group - N
TRG 10 group - N (was ashdene group )
MQE mosaique plc - N
BFG beaufort internationalgroup - N
OAH oak holdings plc - N

where N = Nomad
B = corporate broker

SueHelen - 04 Aug 2004 13:07 - 899 of 1892

Thanks slmchow. I still have to shorten the header post as well. I'll do so by tomorrow evening.

deadfred - 04 Aug 2004 13:09 - 900 of 1892

thx slmchow your a good man

now if we take it that on average they charge around 250k *21 companies
plus shares

well looks like there might be a profit here

slmchow - 04 Aug 2004 14:43 - 901 of 1892

Anyone interested in TA . This is 2 post from marnewton one on monday afternoon and the other one this morning
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marnewton - 2 Aug'04 - 14:56 - 12174 of 12360

Good afternoon all,

On Friday I said we needed a two day close above .71 to confirm the breakout above that resistance level. It didn't happen and we are now back to .70p (mid).

And back below the 50 day MA.

But we do remain , by a whisker, above the upper line of the descending channel.

I've been asked to explain why I said an overbought condition, as indicated by the Stochastic, was 'not a problem'.

Well, different indicators need to be applied depending on whether the shareprice is 'Trending' or 'Consolidating'. A Trending market/share is one in which there is a directional bias. A Consolidating market/share is one that displays a 'Trading Range', usually between two fairly clear levels.

Trending markets require trend following indicators, such as Moving Averages and MACD etc.

Stochastics and RSI, in other words Oscillators, come into their own during periods of consolidation.

Recently we have been trending downwards in a clear channel...this is confirmed by two other indicators, ADX and DirMov, which are actually showing the downtrend to be weakening.

So, to answer the question, the Stochastic is not an important indicator during this trending phase.

Clear as mud eh?

Good luck,

Martin
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marnewton - 4 Aug'04 - 08:10 - 12341 of 12360

Good morning all,

After a brief interlude we are again trading ABOVE the descending channel.

CFP also closed above chart resistance at .71p, the 21 day MA and the 50 day MA.

Strength is building and, significantly, yesterday's volume was above average...more than two times greater than on the last attempted breakout.

My trading software has given an automated buy signal which is confirmed by the indicators.

Those with good memories may remember that I have reported 'automated buy signals' before, but this is the first time there has been any real confirmation.

The 61.8% Fibonacci Retracement level at .84p has come back into play as overhead resistance, as has the chart feature from 7/4, the high of .90p.

Good luck,

Martin
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deadfred - 04 Aug 2004 14:55 - 902 of 1892

wow thx m8

jokin
very interesting stuff but in layman terms

its still a good share longterm

snakey - 04 Aug 2004 17:44 - 903 of 1892

typical that my purchase of 750,000 this afternoon has gone down as a sell due to price of 0.77p. It doesn`t enthuse others like us, when such deals indicate that stock is being `dumped` rather than chased !!!

thesaurus - 04 Aug 2004 17:57 - 904 of 1892

I spoke to a banker friend of mine who says that this one is on alot of peoples radars! sounds promising

deadfred - 04 Aug 2004 22:43 - 905 of 1892

told you so weeks ago
lol
snakey always makes me lol at buy sell thing

pisses me of when you know everything is ok and it indicates it aint

mm imho

snakey - 04 Aug 2004 23:58 - 906 of 1892

deadfred,
we MUST make some money on this one surely !!! I have been big fan all along but I`m almost doubting me own judgement here `cos someone or something is working against the success of the price ????
I`m off golfing to Ireland in another 3 weeks so what should I care!!!

deadfred - 05 Aug 2004 09:26 - 907 of 1892

snakey my friend this is a longterm share

you know and everyone else whos in the know knows

ask yourself one question is there anywthere a share with as funny or strange share movements as this share seems to have
if there is plz tell me ill buy some
lol


it makes you ask the big question WHY????????

why is a no money share behaving like this with so much outside influences

at sometimes three(3) mm playing it at the sametime

stock exchange asking for a statement from company for share movement on such a little company

two share placements for no reason each swallowed up(imho this is a cry from some ppl to make more share available so they can have some cream)

according to some reports ive read they are getting buissiness offered to them without looking for it(word of mouth always the best for of advertising)means ppl are sitting up and looking at you imho

the need for more personel on board(never heard of a company thats doing bad employing more ppl)
so what do we have??????

we have a company that can place shares and know that they are going to be swallowed up(a certain mobile phone company could not say that when they floated heance price drop on float imho)

the constant requests for a web site are going to be answered as soon as they can get it up and running(next couple of months)this will bring in more money from companies outside uk who wish to be placed on to london aim stock exchange

aim market is running wild and expanding while the main exchange is shrinking
and who is keenly placed in this niche market to take advantage of this(some big players are thinking of moving to aim market for tax purposes)


so as far as i can see longterm this little gem is a gower

but hey maybe im reading the signals wrong (but i dont think so)

money in the bank more buissness than they can handel(hence more employees)
and mm looking out to play with share you make your mind up

i have and that was before i knew about money am or sharecrazy bb allow sue helens thred has been interesting reading

i picked it and put it on my watch list where i have a few others
just wish i had made move when they were .003p
but hey cant be greedy(oh yes i can)

lol

read between lines

corehard - 06 Aug 2004 13:46 - 908 of 1892

Bought .5 mil and never showed.... Why ????
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