Iqe Share Discussion Threads

[karlm] 09/2/2017 22:20

Me too, my regret was ASOS. I really do believe we won't be here talking about IQE this time next year as it will have been taken over by then, I have no intention of selling any of my holding before then.

Looking at the share movement over the last week, I think there's someone taking a large holding; interesting days ahead, I feel.

[spoole5] 09/2/2017 22:16

Sell half and run the other, only way to do it if you're indecisive!

[panic investor] 09/2/2017 22:09

That's my view too - this and CPX - hit both with a fair chunk of money.Both may come to nothing but they have a better chance than most !I can beat your ARM with Durlacher ! Makes me cry thinking about the missed opportunity !

[tomyumgoong] 09/2/2017 21:54

Not sure I want to share this story but hey ho I'm not proud:.....I invested in ARM sometime in 2009 @ approx 90p( for the same reason I invested in IQE, they were involved in the next generation of computing....tablets and smartphones. I was a bit nieve back then). The share price rose to £4 and chatter on the bulletin boards said the PE was too high and the share price was overvalued.......I got nervous and sold out only to watch the share price rise within a few years to £11+ then eventually a buyout at £16 approx.... was I gutted?...too right I was, even though I made a tidy profit. So I suppose the moral of the story is we just don't know what will happen to the share price ...if your lucks in, your lucks in! Ps. I wanted to sell out of IQE a while ago but I kept researching and through my research I just couldn't bring myself to sell out! This is like finding Intel 40 years ago IMO. Silicon is at the end of its lifespan....compound semiconductors will enable a new wave of computers and electronics and this is just the beginning!

[yump] 09/2/2017 21:32

darkdogs

Unfortunately it appears to have been done already x100.
Be fun to turn up on Dragons Den with it though, especially as that's what at least two of them do ;-)

[bobd29] 09/2/2017 21:31

I would hang on until the next downturn, imo unlikely to be a correction before the results.

[spoole5] 09/2/2017 21:28

I was planning to sell at 40p and obviously glad i didn't. Having bought at 23p it's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid taking profits.

[lpavlou] 09/2/2017 20:16

Interesting week so far. We've had 2 major holders reducing their stakes., yet the share price is up 5p. Whilst there have been lots of small stakes being acquired, tiger has to be someone accumulating. Checked the short positions and Ennismore still there. There are a lot of good news stories out there about the huge potential of Iqe but the rise this week has taken me by surprise.Will we get a raft of broker updates now the share price has reached their targets? My next target price is 50p and if we get thee before the results, it's going to be seriously difficult to retain my position.

[darkdogs] 09/2/2017 20:16

sounds like a plan though yump

[zapa] 09/2/2017 18:08

Yump, remind me what your online business is?

[bobd29] 09/2/2017 17:09

TO was always a possibility but no evidence yet

[yump] 09/2/2017 16:54

Well if IQE gets taken over by an overseas company, we can all bask in the winnings and forget the longer term implications of failing to have a potentially large UK business that might employ some of our children.

Shame the government hasn't got a poison pill stake, just in case.

Oh sorry, I forgot, free market globalisation benefits everyone.

[rogerrail] 09/2/2017 16:34

Seems evident that the recipient of the large sales by Katie Potts and Richard Griffiths has become known to more than a select few and is influencing the sp, wish I knew who it is!

[zedder] 09/2/2017 15:33

Hopefully an exponential curve/chart on the way. There must certainly be some significant accumulation going on somewhere. My holding from 4th July 2014 has just one-bagged! Another chunk from 14th November 2013 is not far behind.

[darkdogs] 09/2/2017 15:26

something 12 inches?

[horneblower] 09/2/2017 15:19

56p on my chart.

[someuwin] 09/2/2017 14:56

...Or even sooner?

[someuwin] 09/2/2017 14:39

At this rate we could see 50p before results next month.

[sheep_herder] 09/2/2017 13:49

Now then now then now then. What's going on 'ere.

[rivaldo] 09/2/2017 13:15

Boonkoh, N+1 Singer's 48p target was simply based on a P/E of 16 for this year's 3p EPS forecast, "in-line with international peers".

Taking next year's 3.6p EPS would give a 58p target. And if all goes well the final 2016 figures and outlook may even lead to upgrades on those forecasts.

Singer's forecast is behind Edison's and Canaccord's of 3.1p-3.11p EPS for 2017.

[netcurtains] 09/2/2017 12:49

Wafer Tech never really gets a word so here is a bit about the company:

Wafer Technology is housed in a 50,000 sq.ft. building in Milton Keynes, about 50 miles north west of London, UK. Crystal growth facilities include high and low pressure Czochralski pullers, horizontal synthesis furnaces (for polycrystalline material production) and Vertical Gradient Freeze furnaces. Wafering equipment includes an extensive installation of Meyer & Berger saws, precision edge rounders and laser marking equipment. Single side and simultaneous double side polishing is performed in class 10,000, class 1,000 or better cleanroom areas with final inspection and polished wafer packaging in a class 100 area.

so how big is 50,000 square feet?

Its this big:

[yump] 09/2/2017 12:35

I think they got it by adding 6 to the answer to the question: 'what is the meaning of life the universe and everything?'

Probably as credible as any other method.