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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Stock Type |
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| Bede | BED | London | Ordinary Share |
| Price Change | Price Change % | Share Price | Last Trade
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| 0.00 | 0.00% | 0.64 | 01:00:00 |
| Open Price | Low Price | High Price | Close Price | Previous Close |
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| 0.64 | 0.64 |
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Posted at 01/4/2008 13:48 by dyfiman Hi Honiton....it's kind of you to 'smile' on my 'good fortune', but I did lose far too much for my own good. That is, I'm a very small PI like 100's of thousands of others. That said, I feel deeply for those who have lost significant wedges having believed the blandishments of management down the years. Large fund investors have also received a sock on the chin for coughing up to support the company after their initial investments. It's all rather sad, but Bede is not the first, nor will it be the last to set up a stall with goodies to sell - and fall on their faces while costing other people lots of money. Best regards you and all. |
Posted at 04/3/2008 11:33 by smithyuk Hi Dale,I'm affraid I have intimate knowledge of the company and I know exactley how imcompetent they have been. They made assumptions based around the fact that everyone would follow their number 1 customer. They built the business model around this and have spent circa £50mil of investors money in 8 years and brought nothing back to the table. The decisions of the company were not based on fact, more hope that everyone would follow suit, when in reality its a much harder world to do business. They were first to market, they should have been able to capture the market but now competitors with much deeper pockets are on their heels. To think this company floated at £2.15 and is now on it's knees, it's a worry as to where all that money actually went is it not? They can not expect a recovery from this in their current form. I just feel sorry for the staff that have been there, some for 20 years plus. If they do not have another buyer interested then they are out of business the end of this month. However I wonder how their number 1 customer feels about this as they themselves have invested a very significant amount of time and money into the company, so that could be a saving grace? |
Posted at 22/10/2007 12:32 by richoneday BIKWIK - I am a 'numpty' and don't profess to fully understand 'fibonacci time cycles; low rally highs; bull divergence, RSI, stochastics, MACD, etc.I simply apply the dead parrot test and the parrot that is Bede is definitely nailed to the perch in my view!!!! Good luck with dumping your few hundred thou at 9p. I don't stand a chance against you sophisticated investors ;o) |
Posted at 10/8/2007 12:38 by janatha Investors Chronicle ,today,tips Bede as a speculative Buy. "Bede may at long last be in the right place at the right time.The shares remain a speculative buy. So why has Bede attracted a suitor? The simple answer is technology.It claims to be the global leader in producing non-destructive X-ray metrology systems.....As the race is onto produce smaller and smaller chips,so the use of X-ray technology is becoming more widespread....Chip metrology is a $4-$5B annual market,so it's not altogether surprising that a suitor has popped up now. Bede has a good client list,too,and it supplies over three-quarters of the top 25 chip makers.And thanks to a healthy order book,the company expects "significant" sales growth in this half-year." |
Posted at 01/8/2007 09:45 by bikwik Ahem, pooreveryday.....you really are a complete numpty. Anyway, price marked up...going to plan so far....and no cash worries from what i see......and maybe a bid....if not...looks ok anyway.....so no reason apart from investor emotion to be this low.....time will tell. |
Posted at 19/6/2007 13:21 by veryniceperson Might be of some interest. From the Cambridge Evening News. Seeking out stocks ripe for recovery is never an easy task and more often than not is fraught with an extra dose of risk. Likewise, buying a share at what you perceive to be the bottom has a nasty habit of catching you out, as the price inevitably drops further before you even have time to close your wallet. So, with that in mind, it is with a large degree of caution that I home in on one speculative stock which, if it continues to progress, could bring some excellent gains. Bede, based in Durham and originally a spin out from the city university is a company that has seen its shares in terminal decline for years. Although at one point, back in 2002, the shares reached the dizzy heights of 180p, they now hover at 4p, giving the company a market cap of just £3.5m. Of course, it's a familiar story here, business became tough, anticipated orders slow to materialise resulting in mounting losses. It is also fair to say that there have been many false dawns for this manufacturer of specialist tools servicing the semiconductor industry. But maybe, just maybe, this time real progress is being made and a move into profit could at long last become a reality. Although its most recent trading announcement revealed continued losses, the good news was that its order book had doubled, new customers had been won, while broker, Evolution, is boldly anticipating profits next year. However, many investors that have been burnt from past dalliances with Bede shares will quickly point out that strange feeling of déjà vu, hence my caution at the outset. But, with a new chief exec in place as of last month and, more interestingly, recent share purchases by institutions, I am tempted to take a small punt myself at the current levels. Institutions involved in buying over recent months have been Hermes, which holds stock for the BT pension scheme and Royal Mail, Advance AIM Value Realisation Fund along with Barclays Bank. As for the business itself, turnover for last year came in at just below £6m, while the board has said it's making it a priority to growing sales over the coming years, thus paving the way for the long awaited profits. Although much of Bede's portfolio of tools are complex, being described as X-ray metrology products, in layman's terms they amount to giving an absolute and precise measurement of semiconductor material properties and are able to pinpoint defects in microchips. While the company continues to be UK-based it has offices in both the US and China and almost all its sales are derived from overseas, where it is well known for having supplied the likes of Intel and Tokyo Electron. Despite already boasting a broad range of products on offer, it is also true to its roots in that it remains active in research and the ongoing development of new tooling. With a current market cap of just £3.5m, Bede looks far from expensive at current levels given the current climate on sales. However, although the balance sheet shows a cash level of around £1m, Bede needs to keep a tight rein on its burn rate and demonstrate that it can move into a sustainable cash flow positive position sooner rather than later. |
Posted at 12/3/2007 11:30 by janatha Good to see Close Fund Management have increased shareholding to 5.77M (6.62%).Also Barclays Global Investors (uk) have appeared on the shareholder's board with a 5.17M (5.93%) holding . Although there has been no large transactions in the last few weeks to account for this which is curious . The shares are trickling up on no or low volumes which indicates , short term , they might spike up . |
Posted at 19/2/2007 12:38 by janatha Tipped in the Investors Chronicle as a Buy . Gradually attracting more interest .... |
Posted at 01/8/2006 16:17 by good ol beeksy Clive - We were all in on the pump n dump on this one. The plan was to buy at around 40p and sell at around 60p. Then sell to the dross and watch them get trapped in. Even these idiots got out, at a substantial loss around 12p, and left it for the complete toilet investors to clean up before bankruptcy. Spot where abouts in the chain you bought in Clive. |
Posted at 26/7/2006 10:56 by smithyuk Too true Brendan, this is very much a inside job with thier Japanese agents.Those evaluations must be long over by now, so no word is probably bad news for Bede, lets wait for the next results, no doubt another 2-3 mil loss in 3 months, but don't worry, we are just about to turn the corner and we are not wasting any of your money nice investors........ Cerrito, well done on getting out now, I suspect it won't be much longer before this stock disapears either from existance or is goblled up by a much bigger company in pocket change. |
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