Investing Andy 🇺🇦

Freelance investing and finance writer. Help charities and FS organisations maximise their PR outcomes.

[Investing Andy 🇺🇦 @InvestingAndy]

@danielgoyal Gosh, I'd really worry if you were my doctor. Fine you paid that per hour, but then he has to have other jobs lined up or he gets £0. If he gets ill he gets nothing. He can't be promoted. Some people will make him work and not pay him.

It's a headline rate but a misleading one.

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Great post. Amazing how many retained PRs can't do this consistently.

[Carly Martinetti @PRcarly]

Personalizing your pitch is NOT as easy as simply including the reporter’s name (but make sure you get that right, too).

It’s about understanding:
- What they enjoy writing about
- Where their gaps in coverage might be
- What’s interesting to their readers

Read their articles. See what they post on social media. Have imaginary conversations with them in your head.

Then write your pitch.

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Incoming Starbucks CEO is not even going to be required to go to the office and may live 1000 miles away from the HQ.

Seems like one rule for the BoDs and a different one for normal employees.

[UK Investor Magazine @UKInvestorMAG]

Medical imaging technology developer IXICO #IXI says figures for the year to September 2024 will be ahead of expectations. Revenues will be between £5.5m to £5.9m, compared with expectations of £5.2m. Cash levels will improve. A new contract has been won to provide imaging biomarker services for phase 1 / 2 clinical trial for patients with Huntington’s Disease.  The share price rebounded 26.3% to 9p.

Waste-to-energy technology developer Eqtec #EQT says that the sale of a site in Deeside Industrial Park by Logik Developments should happen by 16 August. Once this is completed then Eqtec will be paid £2m under the settlement agreement with Logik Developments. The share price improved 11.5% to 1.45p.

Silver Bullet Data Services #SBDS has won a contract with one of the world’s largest programmatic self-service advertising buying platforms for its AI contextual marketing product 4D. It has also launched a privacy-first mobile advertising product, 4D Mobile. Zeus has been appointed as joint broker. The share price increased 9.68% to 85p.

GreenRoc Strategic Materials #GROC reported a £5,000 cash inflow from operations, but that was due to a £413,000 decrease in debtors, and capitalised spending of £160,000 in the six months to May 2024. Since, then further cash has been raised. Further test work is ongoing on ore from the Amitsoq graphite project in Greenland. The share price rose 8% to 1.35p.

FALLERS

Spirits supplier Distil #DIS has been hit by a 55% decline in revenues to £204,000 in the first four months of the financial year. Full year expectations have been downgraded, but there should be an improvement compared with 2023 revenues of £1.5m. Global alcohol volumes are declining and poor weather in the UK hit sales this year. July was particularly poor and Distil requires further short-term funding. The share price slumped 35.3% to 0.275p.

Global Petroleum #GBP is setting up a joint venture with Callum Baxter, former chief technical officer of Greatland Gold #GGP, to diversify into mineral exploration in Western Australia. Global Petroleum will pay £200,000 for 70% of the joint venture and Callum Baxter will retain the other 30%, although this can be increased to 80% for an additional £50,000. Global Petroleum will spend a minimum of £750,000 over 12 months and fund 100% of spending until a decision to mine. Global Petroleum is raising £600,000 at 0.065p/share and existing shareholders can participate in a retail offer. This cash will finance the purchase of 80% of the exploration licence. Under a consultancy agreement Callum Baxter will receive 200 million Global Petroleum shares and 10% of the total number of new shares issued in the fundraising. The retail offer to existing shareholders via CMC closes on 16 August. The share price fell 15.6% to 0.0675p.

Ultrasound AI software and simulators developer Intelligent Ultrasound #IUG restated its interims due to the sale of its Clinical AI business for the equivalent of 12.4p/share. Ongoing revenues fell 18% to £5m as UK and North American sales declined. The continuing operating loss was £1.4m and a review of the business should be completed in October. The share price declined 10.6% to 9.5p.

ECR Minerals #ECR reports that 56 soil samples from prospects at the Lolworth project in Queensland returned results of at least 0.05ppm gold, including some that were well above that level. The focus is switching to the eastern part of the project area to test for gold, niobium and tantalum mineralisation. The company is fully funded for this year.  The share price dipped 5.56% to 0.255p.

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@CapitalPmh @IXICOnews Great share price reaction today.

New CEO coming in I think this year if I remember correctly.

The improved order book I think was the key thing today.

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@abrahamson_ed @kelvmackenzie Most of it won't be his own money. The employer contributions in many govt and arms length bodies are phenomenal compared to private sector.

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Must be a few years since a load of coordinated accounts said #SYME would imminently go to the moon.

Well, hope they're enjoying their mansion in Monaco.

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I did some woodwork at the weekend, now my mobile is convinced my fingerprint has changed.

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@MatthewStadlen At least they stood rather than running away unlike many other senior and formerly senior Conservatives.

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@CharlotteCGill Cheer up, you'll be dead one day. If you hate London so much just don't go. Simples.

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@announcerphil Andy Murray

Competed against the triumphate of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic
Grew up playing tennis in Scotland (the place where it rains all the time)
Left home to go train in Spain
Had weight of a nation on lone shoulders
Overcame trauma of Dunblane Massacre
Won multiple slams

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@MerrynSW @John_Stepek What office do you work in?

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@kelvmackenzie Great. Hopefully wherever you go doesn't have X/Twitter.

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@youngvulgarian Had "where is South-Wark" yesterday while walking over Blackfriars Bridge.

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"Transformational" acquisitions are in my book generally a major red flag. Getting it right requires a very talented management team with a history of integrating acquisitions.

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@100Climbs Maybe the bit where you piss everyone off. It's a hearts and minds battle not an ego trip.

This isn't awareness raising or smart campaigning, it's ego-driven attention-seeking, divisive nonsense that makes it harder to improve the environment.

[Investing Andy 🇺🇦 @InvestingAndy]

Yesterday I bought shares in Netscientific #NSCI - originally Simon Thompson drew my attention to it. It was one of his 23/24 bargain shares and he said a new management came in during 2020 and there was a lot of hidden value in the portfolio.

Seems to remain true now!

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@zanmerusteff The lowest they think they can get away with.

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Remember, some people online are apparently SO successful they want to sell you courses for 000's of pounds rather than keeping growing the business that they claim made them so rich 😜🤔

[Investing Andy 🇺🇦 @InvestingAndy]

@DanielPriestley You undermine your own argument. You argue they can move anywhere easily but also call them 'tax slaves'. To me no one can be these things simultaneously.