In the first of what will be an ongoing series, we highlight a particular share that has come up on our radar – this week Science In Sport (ticker LSE:SIS). I’m also going to review the market in which they trade in general. Science In Sport operate in the sports nutrition sector and as such I feel uniquely qualified to review this part ...
Shares in Quindell PLC (LSE:QPP) are up 33% today at the time of writing and now sitting at 241.95p per share. The much beleaguered Quindell has had a tumultuous year to date. After rocketing to a high of 660p per share back in April, a damning ‘report’ by short sellers Gotham City Research then wiped over £1 billion off the value of t ...
The news this week that the Church of England has finally cut financial ties with the much disliked Wonga, brings again into focus the question of ethics in investment. The C of E/Wonga situation was particularly interesting given that the Church was publicly taking a lofty moral position against ‘payday lenders’ whilst privately invest ...
This was a great week for shareholders of Tyratech (LSE:TYRU) with the shares rising from 7.5p to finish the week at 11.13p – a gain of approximately 48%! The catalyst for this great performance was news of a £3.5 million share placing to fund a launch of their Vamousse head lice shampoo in Boots and Superdrug. Tyratech specialize in insect ...
One of our 2014 stock purchases has come into focus in the last week on the back of the announcement of an agreement with Samsung. Seeing Machines has jumped from 5p per share to a high of 8p and is today sitting at 7.62p. This share currently falls into the category of one where we picked the right share, but bought it a little expensive at the ti ...
Just a quick update on one of our current share holdings, Tyratech. Their Vamousse hair lice treatment recently followed up the contract wins at Boots and Superdrug we reported with further agreements with Tesco and Sainsburys. Now their new advert has been hitting UK TV screens: We quite like the advert and combined with the increasing availabilit ...
One of our most recent share purchases – UK Oil and Gas (LSE:UKOG) – has jumped a further 14% today from 1.425 on opening this morning to 1.625 by the close of play. From their website – www.ukogplc.com – “UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC” is specifically focused on seeking investments in the domestic conventiona ...
I’m sure like us, most investors will be concerned about the effect of the Scottish referendum on the stock market. It’s something we’ve given a lot of thought to. In this article we will be discussing how the Scottish Referendum could effect the stock market and what actions we have taken/will take ourselves. For a long time the ...
Well Scotland did the sensible thing and vote No to being an independent country. I do feel sorry for the Yes camp as I can understand their wish for freedom. After all, most of us English want out of the EU.. Economically the No vote was the best outcome and is the best for the stability of the stock market. It does though mean we’ve all mis ...
Well that relief rally we had on Friday got cut short awfully quickly didnt it? On Monday one of the giants of the FTSE 100 issued a new profits warning admitting that they had overstated group profits for the six months to 23rd August by a whopping £250m. This has lead the index considerably lower, including so far a drop of 1.2% today alone on t ...
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