Recommended as a sell and maybe buy back in the autumn in Shares Magazine. Seems to be going up nicely on fairly large volumes ahead of interims on Wednesday (18.8.04). Does anybody know much about this company??

Press Mention : in today's The Sun Newspaper.

Outside the Footsie, semiconductor specialist IQE surged 3p to 11.75 on a contract win.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,9-2004512192,00.html

The 2 million buy yesterday at 11.61 pence was Canada Life Limited (see below) :

RNS Number:8998E
IQE PLC
05 November 2004


IQE plc ("the Company")

Holding in the Company





The Company was notified today by Canada Life Limited, that following the
purchase of 2,000,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary
Shares") at 11.6 pence each, Canada Life Marketing Group is now interested in
14,551,156 Ordinary Shares. These Ordinary Shares represent 4.6 per cent. of the
issued share capital of the Company.



05 November 2004



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The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

END
HOLUUGACGUPCURA

Shares in IQE jumped 34.3 per cent to 11.75p after the semiconductor components group secured a major outsourcing contract with a leading North American components manufacturer, esitmated to be worth $25m over two years.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=ea07724c2f0973ed

Press Mention :

IQE, the chips material manufacturer, jumped 3p to 11 3/4p after its North American subsidiary secured an outsourcing contract worth 13.6m over two years. With more than 10m cash in the bank, analysts believe the stock still looks cheap.


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid84334?source=

Good morning Sue are we going to have another good day.

Morning John...as I write I believe another very large buy is being filled in the background. Expecting the price to close around 13.00 pence today then attack the 15.00 pence area come next week.

MM's are still balancing their books from yesterdays massive volume spike. Does anyone think they had 17M shares (yesterday's volume) hanging around? They're just buying shares today cheaper than they sold them yesterday. Once this consolidation is complete, they will let the bid rise. Surely you don't expect them to pay more for a share than they have been paid for it?

There will be several large buyers sizing up yesterdays announcement and ready to accumulate when the remaining froth from yesterday has blown off. If the ask gets to 11p again, i'll add again and i won't be alone.

I think we wont be hitting 13p today

Here it comes...the large buy for 500,000 shares at 12.00 pence, reported as a T trade.

Large buys in the pipeline thesaurus, they have to be filled first...stop whinging every time please.

half a mil buy just gone through we just see that 13p.

sorry. Are sue helen and kivver talking about the same half a mill buy

yes, sorry didn't see the one above.

Level 2 closing at 2 v 2 with EVO and KLWT on the bid and WINS and MLSB on the offer.

Large buys will continue to come into next week as long as the KLWT on the bid and WINS on the offer combination continues...as things stand thats how the way it is so more large buy orders that need to be filled are in the pipeline.

All profit taking : more like loss taking out of the way today which is very good with the price obviously holding onto its gains from yesterday.

Here comes another large buy : 250,000 T BUY comes through at 12.25 pence.

KLWT picked up 2 million shares today :

500,000 T BUY came through at 12.00 pence
250,000 T BUY came through at 12.25 pence

KLWT stil have 1.25 million shares for someone.

Here comes another : 250,000 O BUY comes through at 12.25 pence.

1 Million bought by someone now today : KLWT have 1 million shares left now for someone.

Here comes another : 250,000 VW BUY comes through at 12.25 pence

Someone has bought 1.25 million shares now today : KLWT have 750,000 shares left for someone.

Now does anyone else remember the shanigans by WINS this morning...constantly bringing the offer to 12.25 and 12.50 pence. The above buys was the reason as to why.

I'd lay odds on press comment at the weekend and a further rise next week - this is due to reach mid teens before too long, as it's a good company with (strange in these times) a board who tell it like it is.
They've been honest when trading wasn't going well. Now they're saying it is going well. They also say they've been progressing towards orders with a number of far eastern customers. They also say they're targetting ebitda break-even on a month-by-month basis by their year end. Given the order this week and the attention that has brought, and the positive statement that accompanied it, why would anyone except an extremely short term trader want to get out of these?

MMs picked up 2 million shares at 11.50-12.00 pence and sold them at 12.00-12.25 pence....that's how it works...the MMs made their profit as well. Now another question with a 1.25 million buy order in the background at fixed prices how the hell can the price go pass those prices that the buy order is fixed at without them buys being filled first.

As I said earlier WINS and KLWT combination closed like that on Level 2...so as long KLWT stay alone on the bid and WINS alone on the offer - it means more larger buys are in the pipeline.

I've created a new thread guys with all the latest information and charts included...Can we please use that one from now on. I hope that's ok.

Well done to Sue Helen and myself, when i started the original thread on the 16th August the SP was 7p and reached a high of 12.4 a couple of days ago, a rise of 77% in 2 months. Not bad eh suehelen, lets hope other people following the thread saw the great opportunity we did. I know im laughing all the way to the bank. You know what makes me laugh even louder some people have accused you of ramping!lmao.Hahahahahahaha

who has dumped nearly 30 million shares?? and the price goes up!!!

Yes very strange.

Just look at the volume today.

If they were sells they were bought. They may just be moved inside funds but with the price action today something is definately happening here. Will be looking to buy more Monday if the markets are up.

IQE PLC
22 July 2005


IQE plc (the 'Company')

Holding in Company

The Company was informed on 21 July 2005 by Gartmore Investment Management plc
that, following the sale of 500,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company
('Ordinary Shares') on 10 June 2005, Gartmore Investment Limited, Gartmore Fund
Managers Limited and Gartmore Global Partners had a reportable interest in
43,999,756 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 13.93 per cent. of the
issued share capital of the Company. The above Ordinary Shares are held as
follows:

Beneficial owner Number of Percentage of Registered
Ordinary Shares issued share holder
capital
Gartmore Fund Managers Ltd A/C 15,137,969 4.79% HSBC Global
Gartmore UK & Irish Smaller Custody Nominee
Companies UK Ltd

The Gartmore Limited Issue UK 3,669,006 1.16% Goldman Sachs
Small Cap Fund Ltd Nominees Ltd

Strathclyde Pension Fund 7,744,279 2.45% Nortrust
Nominees
Litmited

The Alphagen Volantis Fund 10,945,822 3.47% Vidacos
Limited Nominees Ltd
A/C 1945

Gartmore Smaller Companies Trust 3,773,892 1.20% BNY GIL CLT A/C
plc NOMS LTD A/C
LST

Gartmore Growth Opportunities 2,728,788 0.86% BNY GIL CLT A/C
plc NOMS LTD A/C
NWSC
Total 43,999,756 13.93%



22 July 2005







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