Your Top share for 2011

sabretoothtigger

I should have mentioned the stockchallenge competetion as they give a prize and its an easy way to track a guess




Actually that is quite a boring selection, they all make profits. Maybe BEM will bounce back or RRL finally get their Somalian oil


SXX is the winner then, Potash miner. Where as my parallel bet to that is SKR who will come back on to AIM apparently at one tenth of their value this time last year, owch.

They are getting a dilutive loan from the their IPO backers back from when Lehmans was a major investor in them also. If nothing else that is alot of forced selling, they are still sitting on one of the worlds largest phosphate deposits. Amazing it could be so precarious a company that gets to mine it, just hope the Kazaks dont think that too

The Top Aim 100 - http://www.digitallook.com/companyresearch/113101/FTSE_AIM_100/company_research.html

I'll put this here for this years record

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sabretoothtigger

Article on SGP http://www.iii.co.uk/articles/24599/stock-watch-supergroup

Any guesses for 2012 ?

mr_fishbulb

After my performance last year, I'm going to take a very unscientific approach to this year's pick and got for DNO - DOMINO PRINTING SCIENCES PLC. Reasons are:

a) I downloaded all the FTSE 250 into excel and used the random number generator function to pick a line number. It picked this one.
b) People might buy it accidentally thinking they are buying DOM - DOMINO'S PIZZA UK & IRL PLC which is always a favourite.



Edit - maybe Mulberry too. Think it still has growth in it, but I don't understand women's handbags enough to put actual money in it.

IronWolf

My 2012 pick is...Amlin or Tesco (from now, not Jan 1st)

JonnyBravo

I'll stick with EMED.
Last year saw a middling performance on those rankings but -33% isn't really "middling" in any meaningful sense of the word for it's performance.
On the plus side if close really was 7.82 at year end, then 2012 has been good so far.

As I've said before though, the really interesting stuff was always possibly going to happen nearer the election and it's now only 53 days away.
Not that I'm counting.

ChrisEvanson

JonnyBravo wrote: »

I'll stick with EMED.
Last year saw a middling performance on those rankings but -33% isn't really "middling" in any meaningful sense of the word for it's performance.
On the plus side if close really was 7.82 at year end, then 2012 has been good so far.

As I've said before though, the really interesting stuff was always possibly going to happen nearer the election and it's now only 53 days away.
Not that I'm counting.

I've been watching EMED too and got it in my virtual portfolio with a grand of my notional 10k investment in. As my real money hasn't done well last year and as I am sinking everything into a house restoration at the mo, I have to settle for virtual!

antispam246

Quick question, been playing with the virtual portfolio (HL), how does the buy/sell/current price work? For instance, I had (GAL) bought at 4.15, current is 4.25 but you can only sell at 4.00. So even though the price has gone up I'm still at a loss if I were to sell, would someone mind explaining how this works, if there's ways round it and if the buy/sell ratio is the same amongst all shares or varies. Many thanks

One other question, what does it mean when you cannot buy a particular share and it states
"as this security is not covered by our online service"

mr_fishbulb

antispam246 wrote: »

Quick question, been playing with the virtual portfolio (HL), how does the buy/sell/current price work? For instance, I had (GAL) bought at 4.15, current is 4.25 but you can only sell at 4.00. So even though the price has gone up I'm still at a loss if I were to sell, would someone mind explaining how this works, if there's ways round it and if the buy/sell ratio is the same amongst all shares or varies. Many thanks

Think of it as having a bunch of people wanting to buy and a bunch wanting to sell.

In this simplistic example imagine each person selling owns 1 share, and each person buying wants one share.

Of the people wanting to sell, 1 person wants 4.15 for it, 1 person wants 4.30 and 1 person wants 4.45

Of the people wanting to buy, 1 person is prepared to pay 4.15, 1 person is prepared to pay 4.00 and 1 person thinks it's only worth 3.85.

They all go down to a meeting place known for where buying and selling of these shares takes place (the exchange).

The person who is selling for 4.15 will find out that there is someone willing to buy it off them for 4.15. The deal is done.

With the shares that are left at the exchange, there is a gap between the price the sellers want to sell at, and the price the buyers are willing to buy at. This is called the bid offer spread.

If a share is more popular and there is lots of buying and selling going on (high liquidity) then the different between what people want and what people will pay is smaller, purely because there is more people buying and selling.

sabretoothtigger

RNS was not exciting to market today, negative even yet the news is yet to come of any successful drill ?

I figure XEL is a buy around 105 as its not fallen for any great reason i will buy back my old share there

IronWolf

Lots of talk of Supergroup on here so thought Id post this here. Just completely crashed again today on another profit warning, down 38%, lost 80% of its value in just over a year.

http://www.supergroup.co.uk/investors/rns-feed/rnsnews/11181078

Looking like it might be worth a punt now, hovering around current P/E of 10-12. Considering their problems have come from them growing faster than they can handle, it looks intriguing.