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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Stock Type |
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| Moonpig Group Plc | MOON | London | Ordinary Share |
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| 5.60 | 3.25% | 178.00 | 16:29:24 |
| Open Price | Low Price | High Price | Close Price | Previous Close |
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| 174.60 | 173.60 | 178.20 | 178.00 | 172.40 |
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Posted at 20/9/2022 09:26 by dealy total investor capitulation in the discretionary retail space. companies like Asis, Boohoo , THG all butchered in recent months. It's almost like armageddon is being priced in |
Posted at 30/10/2021 10:35 by yump .Bumped this on the assumption that there might be some non-trading investors around at the weekend ! |
Posted at 29/10/2021 10:16 by yump Well I just spent double what I would normally spend on a relative, simply because the gifts in the local shops are rubbish and I can’t be bothered to go to a big department store.I hadn’t quite realised the selection range at Moon. Understandably they’ve had a big boost from people being at home over the last year or so. However the price may well have discounted that now. Imo the move to online cards/gifts is irreversible, just like clothing, perhaps more so. If you look at the ratings of the pure play online retailers, they reached and stayed very high. With only 20% ish of cards being bought online, this has a way to go and I’m building a decent stake. Investors often don’t like investment by the business, but imo Moon’s will have a dramatic payback in a year or so. Probably available closer to 300p again soon by the look of it . |
Posted at 01/4/2021 15:32 by qvg yes, but Phil Oakley was pretty negative in Investors' Chronicle |
Posted at 31/3/2021 03:54 by dougmachin It was tipped in The Momentum Investor, weekend of the 20th March, with a 2 year view. One main point from them is MoonPig is very cautious with it's financial guidance, under predict and over perform.Also, BlackRock increasing their holdings twice to 8.94% and then 9.05% on 3rd and 5th March. Looks like they bought on the 3rd March, then when it went down again slightly on the 5th, thought, "hmmm, we'll have a few more of those at that price". Looks like a few short term profit takers / maybe traders. IMO those selling will be clambering to get back in as this spikes back up to 500+p. DM |
Posted at 16/2/2021 11:11 by devilsprofessor Excellent progress. Glad to see this starting to ease on up. My personal opinion is optimistic in this company. A solid business model, low costs to run and who doesn't send cards - boosted by covid which I think will change a number of our habits when we get to the other side.I'm keen on companies like this that could be very different and favourable post C19All IMO and a diligent investor will always DYOR :-) |
Posted at 13/12/2017 06:26 by the grumpy old men Japanese start-up ispace raises funds for first two lunar missions starting in 2019Japanese start-up ispace raised $90.2 million in its latest round of funding The company will use the money to fund two exploration missions to the moon Investors in the latest round include Suzuki Motor and Japan Airlines Michael Sheetz | @thesheetztweetz Published 1 Hour Ago CNBC.com An artist's rendering of iSpace's Mission 2 landing on the moon's surface. iSpace An artist's rendering of iSpace's Mission 2 landing on the moon's surface. Lunar exploration startup ispace announced Tuesday it raised $90.2 million in its latest round of funding, backed by a dozen investors. The Japanese company will use the money to fund two exploration missions to the moon, with the first by the end of 2019 and the second by the end of 2020. The Innovation Network Corporation of Japan led the Series A round, which also included the Development Bank of Japan, Suzuki Motor and Japan Airlines. "We needed to secure research and development and two missions with this money," CEO Takeshi Hakamada told CNBC. "We're going to bring scientific instruments to the moon, and then sell the right to use our data to space agencies and other institutions, as well as provide transportation services, for profit." Founded seven years ago, ispace is now ready to step beyond its current involvement in the Google Lunar XPRIZE, Hakamada said. The company will continue supporting its 100-member HAKUTO team to pursue the March 2018 deadline for the prize, Hakamada said. Google's Lunar XPRIZE competition will award $30 million to the first company that lands a commercial spacecraft on the moon, travels 500 meters across its surface and sends high-definition images and video back to Earth. Team HAKUTO, which consists of 70 pro bono members and 10 Tohoku University students, is partnering with former competitor TeamIndus for the $30 million in prizes remaining. TeamIndus did not respond to requests for comment. "Our investment is not for the Google Lunar XPRIZE," Hakamada said. "Our ultimate goal is resource utilization on the moon, primarily water resources." The round ranks as the most known funding raised in a commercial space Series A, according to venture capital analysts at Pitchbook. Nearest competitor Planetary Resources raised a third of ispace's Series A, with $34.78 million, while Elon Musk's high-profile SpaceX raised $12.1 million in the same round. Prominent space investor Dylan Taylor cautioned that the amount raised in a Series A round is not necessarily a comparable measure of a company's success, both for now or what is to come. "It's more expensive to raise money the earlier a company is in the capital raising process," Taylor said. "Companies should only raise what they need and maybe only a little more, for buffer." Taylor added that the new ispace funding should make it possible for the company to achieve its goals, saying he thinks "$45 million per launch is probably at market cost." His understanding was matched by Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux, who is a partner at Global Space Ventures, a venture capital firm. She told CNBC the ispace announcement is "indicative of the growing investors' confidence in commercial space being able to unlock value well beyond the surface of the Earth." "Ispace's plan … is now solidly in the purview of the next steps of human endeavors in space," de Cayeux said. While the company is based in Japan, ispace opened a subsidiary office in Luxembourg in March, along with a small office at a research center in California. Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider, who highlighted ispace's work in November, told CNBC his country is eager to see how ispace continues to grow Luxembourg's space industry. "We welcome that ispace will create in the near future further space resources expertise in Luxembourg by actively embarking on projects," Schneider added. Michael Sheetz Michael SheetzNews Associate for CNBC |
Posted at 07/2/2006 06:22 by ariane QinetiQ faces £230m claim from hi-tech group linked to Nasa Richard Wray Tuesday February 7, 2006 The Guardian The controversial £1.3bn privatisation of QinetiQ, the government's defence experts, hit another snag yesterday as a small British company accused the business of terminating its right to exploit a new process for the production of titanium which it planned to use to help American space agency Nasa set up a base on the moon. British Titanium is claiming $400m (£230m) of damages, even though it has yet to produce any revenues from the technology, which was developed by scientists at Cambridge University in 1997. Article continues -------------------- -------------------- The shock claim forced QinetiQ, which has already been criticised for failing to allow retail investors to get involved in the flotation, to issue a supplementary prospectus dismissing the claims from British Titanuim as "unsubstantiated and without merit". Sources close to QinetiQ said that discussions with British Titanium, founded in 1998 by metals expert James Hamilton, had been going on last year but it was not until the day its prospectus was published, January 25, that lawyers acting for the company threatened legal action. As a result QinetiQ was forced to take the unusual step of effectively issuing an addendum to its original circular to prospective investors. In its new circular QinetiQ yesterday pointed out that British Titanium's last results, for the year to the end of March 2005, showed no turnover but other operating income of £166,760. QinetiQ said: "The directors believe, having taken legal advice, that British Titanium's allegations are unsubstantiated and without merit and that the quantum of the threatened claim is spurious, speculative and without basis." QinetiQ's advisers made it clear last night that the group intended to press ahead with its flotation. The float itself has already been heavily criticised, not least because it will generate an eightfold return for the initial investor, US venture capital firm Carlyle, whose stake could be worth up to £338m. Last month the National Audit Office, the government spending watchdog, said it would look at the privatisation, including the sale of part of the business to Carlyle. British Titanium's case dates back to 1998 when the company was founded by Mr Hamilton to capitalise on a new way of producing titanium developed the previous year by scientists at Cambridge University working under Professor Derek Fray, who subsequently became a non-executive director of the business. Unable to find industry backing, Prof Fray had approached the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, part of the Ministry of Defence, which took out a licence to develop his process. Subsequently DERA, parts of which were eventually rolled into QinetiQ, sub-licensed the technology back to British Titanium, which worked with the US Office of Naval Research and US titanium producer Timet to try to develop a full-scale manufacturing process. Those attempts have so far come to nothing but British Titanium believes the technology still has prospects. Separately, British Titanium has been working with Nasa to use the process for the production of oxygen from lunar rock for use as rocket fuel. Last year, however, Cambridge University suddenly terminated both QinetiQ's and British Titanium's licences to exploit the titanium process. It handed the rights instead to another Cambridge University spin-off firm called Metalysis, which already had the rights to use the process for the production of other metals. British Titanium is understood to also be planning legal action against the university. |
Posted at 26/8/2005 22:01 by ariane How to set up a moon base By Megan Lane BBC News Magazine Oxygen factory on the moon If money were no object, what would it take to build a moon base fit for human habitation? Nasa is looking into just that, using the Hubble Space Telescope to hunt for suitable locations. And what if they build on one of the millions of plots already "sold" by entrepreneurs? It's easy - relatively - to visit to the Moon, just five days' spaceflight from the Earth. What's considerably more complicated is to set up a lunar base where humans can live, work and breathe. That's just what Nasa is trying to do, using the Hubble Space Telescope to scout possible locations as part of George Bush's push to revisit the Moon by 2018. Air, water and electricity are the key requirements of any habitation. Because it would be prohibitively expensive to ship out supplies, these would need to be produced on the Moon itself. For the raw materials are in plentiful - if not easily extractable - supply. DES RES WITH EARTH VIEWS Nasa looking at three locations Two sites close to where Apollo 15 and 17 touched down in 70s Third is 42km-wide crater near Moon's equator First results due in October What Nasa is looking for are sites with a good supply of ilmenite, a mineral from which to extract oxygen, hydrogen and helium. As well as producing air and water, the flammable gases could be burned to generate electricity. Nasa scientists know to look for ilmenite, as it was found in soil samples brought back by the Apollo missions. "You'd also want to use lunar rocks as building supplies - it is so costly to lift even an extra kilo of steel into space, running to many hundreds of thousands of dollars," says Professor Colin Pillinger, the planetary scientist best known for heading the ill-fated Beagle 2 mission to Mars. "It would be not too difficult to make bricks and mortar from lunar rocks, and ilmenite would provide a nice supply of titanium, a light strong metal, and iron." 'Dark side' of the Moon As a moon base would doubtless be involved in research, its equipment would need to be shielded from the interference spewed out by Earth's electronic chatter. This means a site on the far side of the Moon, says Professor Pillinger. You'd want to use lunar rocks as building supplies - it is so costly to lift even an extra kilo of steel into space Colin Pillinger Which does rather leave its inhabitants stuck for communicating with those back home. The answer, he says, is to deploy a battery of satellites to relay messages. Then there are the extremes of temperature - ranging from about 100C down to at least -73C - the risk of solar flares and damage done by abrasive moon dust. While planning permission is not an issue - there is no law in space - a claim of ownership has been made by US entrepreneur Dennis Hope, who in 1980 spotted a loophole in the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty. Although no country or government can lay claim to extraterrestrial land, it makes no mention of individual or corporate ownership. Plots have been put up for sale ever since. Thus in the 18 months since President Bush's announcement, he has received numerous letters from lunar property owners, which typically read thus: "I do worry that the future space station might be built on my lot. So I would like to inform you that I might allow the US government to do so, but only if I am paid for that area. If this should happen, I would be ready to enter into negotiations with the US officials." UN lawyers say Mr Hope's claim on the Moon is without merit, and no government has yet recognised his claim. That, obviously, also goes for the 3.4m people to whom he has sold lunar plots, and those who have bought from rival companies. WHO OWNS THE MOON? Its surface has 9bn acres Lunar Embassy has sold nearly £5m worth of plots, with 3.4m owners worldwide The company claims owners include Carrie Fisher, William Shatner, the Pope, George W Bush and 30 Nasa employees Mr Hope predicts moon-based colonies within 12 years, and is a key investor in the TransOrbital project, which aims to launch the first private commercial flight to the Moon at the end of the year. The ship will carry a CD detailing Lunar Embassy's ownership rights as the company believes this staking process will stand up under US property law at least. To this end, he says he has been in negotiations with the US Government. "We are proposing to the USA and any other space-faring country to lease to them a large parcel of land at no expense for a time period of 400 years initially. This would provide them with the legal instrument to proceed with their building without violating the Outer Space Treaty." His rivals, too, hope to turn lunar property into reality. The Lunar Registry says proceeds from its sales go towards the Kennedy II Project, a private venture to establish a permanent, self-supporting community by the end of the decade. Caveat Emptor But agents are under no illusions as to the appeal of lunar ownership - novelty value. The company also sells Mars plots And as with any purchase, read the fine print. The Moon Estates website makes clear that owners cannot charge Nasa if they land on their plot. "The Outer Space Treaty... states that the Moon [is] the heritage of all mankind for the purposes of exploration. So Nasa can do what they like and where they like, as long as they are exploring. But if someone wants to build a house or drill for minerals or water on your property, that is quite a different issue altogether." But before you think the Moon is a property hotspot, read on: "The Lunar Embassy and MoonEstates.com has never and will never sell a past or planned Nasa landing site on any celestial body." Not only is Nasa scouting their landing sites, if they do indeed opt to build on the far side of the Moon, as suggested by Professor Pillinger, no-one buys there. "No one wants the 'dark side' of the Moon which can't be seen from Earth - we only sell on the 'bright side'," a Moon Estates agent says. |
Posted at 31/5/2003 09:59 by energyi CRAWFORD A BULL??"the heavens may portend some choppiness in the weeks ahead, particularly with the market facing a lunar eclipse on May 15 and a solar eclipse on May 30. "An eclipse series tears up whatever pattern is in place in the market and brings in uncertainty," Crawford explained. According to the stars, the lunar eclipse will occur at the same time as Mars conjoins with Neptune. For the non-astrologer, that means the markets could be faced with earthly mishaps such as accidents at sea, an attack on currencies, earthquakes or tsunamis. Interestingly, the lunar eclipse will take place the night before options expirations, which should bring in an excess of volatility during the options-driven trading session on May 16, Crawford warned. Crawford said investors may want to wait until after the May 30 solar eclipse before going "200% long on the market using full margin." He said jitters surrounding an eclipse often create better technical market indicators that would benefit investors. It may sound kooky to the skeptical investor, but it's stellar formations such as these that have helped Crawford make some prescient calls on major market events. A huge planetary alignment in May 2000 of Saturn opposite Pluto warned Crawford that there would be a decline in economic activity, resulting in an extended bear market. In 1987, Crawford said a rare planetary cluster of the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars predicted that the markets were set to crash." ...LINK: |
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