Woodford Concerns

AnotherJoe

Motley Fool Article on WPCT

TL;DR :Steer clear, still overvalued (with some detailed analysis of why)

masonic

AnotherJoe wrote: »

Motley Fool Article on WPCT

TL;DR :Steer clear, still overvalued (with some detailed analysis of why)

Another Motley Fool Article on WPCT from a few days earlier

TL;DR : The current discount on the NAV makes an investment in Patient Capital a bargain

Motley Fool always releases 2 articles with opposite opinions. Whatever happens, they'll be able to point back to a story where they called it right. You'll have to pay for their extortionate share-tipping service to find out what they really think.

bowlhead99

masonic wrote: »

Motley Fool always releases 2 articles with opposite opinions. Whatever happens, they'll be able to point back to a story where they called it right. You'll have to pay for their extortionate share-tipping service to find out what they really think.

That's the general idea. Although, Fool don't *always* do two separate opinion pieces showing both sides of the coin, they sometimes only present one view ... but either way, by the time you get to the bottom of their clickbait article you'll find yourself being nudged towards the sign-up link to join their subscription service to find an even better investment on which their top analysts are agreed

They neatly rounded off the article you linked with:

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While they ended the article linked by AnotherJoe with:

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The common denominator is that you might be missing out on a great opportunity if you don't sign up NOW to their recommendations.

I get that they can't employ analysts for nothing and all the Trustnet and HL advertorials are likewise only free because the advertisers or fund houses or the firm itself has a vested interest in you reading them. And sometimes the Fool articles that lead up to the advertisement footer do actually present information that a keen follower of a stock might not already have thought of for themselves.

Still, I find it difficult to read Fool articles as the further I scroll down the page, the closer I feel I'm getting to the frustration of a sometimes-insightful editorial cutting off at an interesting point and dumping me into an advert. They are the Blue-Ball Queens of the consumer investment sector.

EdGasketTheSecond

Are you averaging down on Patient Capital bowlhead99?

dividendhero

I know it's in the Daily Mail, but this story seems solid

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-7144923/Why-fallen-fund-giant-Neil-Woodford-allowed-invest-firms-run-circle-associates.html#comments

"Woodgate" seems to get deeper by the day, technically it all seems legal but is well dodgy :eek:

bowlhead99

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Are you averaging down on Patient Capital bowlhead99?

No. Neither am I bailing.

I might have another look at 50p, as mentioned in #508.

Alistair31

dividendhero wrote: »

I know it's in the Daily Mail, but this story seems solid

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-7144923/Why-fallen-fund-giant-Neil-Woodford-allowed-invest-firms-run-circle-associates.html#comments

"Woodgate" seems to get deeper by the day, technically it all seems legal but is well dodgy :eek:

I’d trust Neil Woodford about as much as I’d trust Michael Gove right now...

Malthusian

dividendhero wrote: »

I know it's in the Daily Mail, but this story seems solid

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-7144923/Why-fallen-fund-giant-Neil-Woodford-allowed-invest-firms-run-circle-associates.html#comments

Most recent comment on the Speak Your Branes section: "Anyone here involved in the StoreFirst fiasco??"

:doh:

"Woodgate" seems to get deeper by the day, technically it all seems legal but is well dodgy :eek:

At time of writing London Capital & Finance is all legal. Four arrested, nobody charged. So "all seems legal" is a very low bar.

[Deleted User]

All sounds like the plot line for Series 5 of Billions (on that note I need to revisit Series 1 again)

Johnnyboy11

Will the Woodford Whale be back this morning, WPCT @ 52p...? Usually surfaces about 11am.