Versarien Share Discussion Threads

[tim3416] 14/10/2018 08:56

Nah snoopy more like the Sunday Sport for them lol

[snoopy12] 14/10/2018 08:55

I hope the shorters did not choke on their cornflakes while reading the Sunday Times. Kudos to Shavian.

[red7al] 14/10/2018 08:38

Thanks superg1, very helpful. Much appreciated

[haz101] 14/10/2018 08:35

Someone mentioned the Daily Mail, I have a confession to make, this is the exact tip that lead me to our great company

[fuji99] 14/10/2018 08:19

Shavian predicted with accuracy the Friday close price (above 145p) and The Sunday Time article today. Well done Shavian ! The message from the article is "Think and hold for the long term".

[pshevlin] 14/10/2018 08:17

Is that the washing at Mr Woo's Chinese laundry Haz?

[ridicule] 14/10/2018 08:16

Well done Shavion for managing to get Ian Cowie on the case and, even more impressively, to a point where an article is published in such a well read national paper as the prestigious ST . His style is to weave in his personal investing dilemmas, since these are typical of the experiences many of us have. I agree the article will (should) be positive for us overall. I think the point I was making in my earlier post is there were a number of other paint colours on the VRS palette that would have produced massive excitement. That said, I think this our first article of such prominence and that can only be good news. Well done.

[grabster] 14/10/2018 08:15

"Join The Graphene Council (TGC) at CAMX where more than 7,000 composites and advanced materials professionals will meet 15-18 OCT 2018 in Dallas, TX. I will be presenting "Graphene and Composite Materials: Stronger Together"

Who is "I" ?
Terrance Barkan?

[cheek212] 14/10/2018 08:12

I am pretty sure that the Mail online also does an article on Sunday stating what shares the other Sunday newspapers have tipped so as well as Sunday times readers, this might also get a wider circulation via the Mail - I will have a look later as I dont think they update until later in the day.

[sharp23] 14/10/2018 07:53

From Ian Cowie column in the Sunday times.Even more embarrassingly, I was still buying just before the music stopped. I picked up some shares in a Cheltenham-based engineer, Versarien, which claims to have found a way to commercialise the "wonder material" graphene.Yes, really. This month I paid 177p for shares that were trading at 147p last week, wiping out 20% of the capital invested. Ouch. To make matters worse, I took the plunge after months of watching the share price rise and nearly caught the absolute top; Versarien peaked at 190p.What possessed me? An occupational hazard of being paid to look at shares is that you keep coming across interesting opportunities and I was impressed by Versarien's chief executive, Neill Ricketts. He is a director of the US National Graphene Association (NGA) and told me he had signed a letter of intent with Chinese authorities to equip a factory in Shandong province's "graphene valley". This shows more of a global reach than you might expect from a small firm based in Gloucestershire.More importantly, it suggests Versarien is taken seriously by industrial rivals in both of the world's biggest economies. Ricketts also seems to have impressed when he accompanied Theresa May on her export-boosting trip to China earlier this year.Since then, the Department for International Trade has seconded two senior staff to Versarien, one of whom speaks Mandarin. That's an unusual level of state support for a small business.It is also reassuring to find that shrewd stock-picker Gervais Williams, the manager of Miton UK Smaller Companies and Miton UK MicroCap funds, is a long-term shareholder. He told me: "We expect many of their partnerships to lead to new product launches with plenty of potential to scale up over time."This raises the important point that short-term stock market shocks are very harmful for day traders or speculators but need not necessarily matter much to medium and long-term investors. At times like these, it may pay to remember that shares reflecting the changing composition of the London Stock Exchange delivered higher returns than cash over three-quarters of all periods of five consecutive years since 1899.

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[forestfred] 14/10/2018 07:42

Well done Shavian
Good result .

Ff

[lovat scout] 14/10/2018 07:36

Well done Shavian - very good financial PR job done there and it sounds like Miton have tucked some away long term. Plenty of IIs will read the article as well as PIs.

The MMs will of course tick the share price higher on Monday to feed the newbies and speculators (MMs can read!).

[forestfred] 14/10/2018 06:42

The Sunday times article.

Overall a good article which gets versarien,s name out there , we have come on a long way .

Good luck all exciting times folks .
Ff

[luckyorange] 14/10/2018 06:41

Matt Walker tweets over the last week or so, don't know what he is trying to say 😉🌞

"the activity has never stopped in China. In fact, it has increased 50 fold. As I keep telling people, we are dealing with a Super Power and there will only be a deal when/if we get EXACTLY what we want, which includes careful forward planning."

"Progressing royally on a number of things China and non-China related and on aspects that go 100 miles beyond the present.... which is my whole point - timing is an important concern, yes, but 'present time' is being balanced against 'aspiration'.

" It’s a personal frustration not being able to speak about what goes on but I can assure you and everyone else that I’m not involved in this for a nice quick win on a political or economic news story - this is for U.K. plc as well as #vrs"

"Lots of long hours but we are really enjoying it and are bang on schedule with progress 👍"

"In layman’s terms..... where we have a measure and where it is in our gift, we are where want to be according to our action plans."

and finally

"I have every intention in staying with #VRS to realise our domestic/global expansion and bd plan regardless of the initial 12 month ‘rule of thumb’ agreement. I’m delighted where we currently are and I won’t accept 2nd best for any of us 👍"


For any waiverers you won't get better updates than the above other than an RNS, nice to see one of the team just stating a few facts from their perspective and he REALLY knows what is going on and the current state of play.

[luckyorange] 14/10/2018 05:54

Not a bad article at all, better than I expected.

If Ian does have followers in the Sunday Times then they are going to see a soft entry point around 1.50 if they are interested and of course updates will be ongoing as already pointed out.

[graphite bot] 14/10/2018 05:36

We can probably expect more write ups from Ian Cowie as journalists have a tendency to cover stocks the are invested in . The Sunday Times has a circulation of about 750’000 .
Good luck all. Stuart.

[haz101] 14/10/2018 02:20

Don’t worry ridicule it will all come out in the washing :)

[ridicule] 14/10/2018 02:05

He could have highlighted the fact that VRS are way out in front in the race to commercialise; had Nanene (trademarked) and independantly verified, will deliver Nanene headphones in partnership with Z & G, are collaborating with at least 15 of the biggest companies in the world who have chosen no one else as a second source, won all 4 tenders with CPI, had been selected over US companies to join the Executive the US Graphene Advisory Board? I could go on

[haz101] 14/10/2018 01:52

Cue the dissection in the morning...,wait a minute..🎼

[sonsonnyjim] 14/10/2018 01:24

Paints us positively, perfect

[festario] 14/10/2018 01:23

I think that's as good a mention as it could be, given the circumstances.I particularly like the fact that Gervais is a long term holder.

[haz101] 14/10/2018 01:13

Ridicule think it’s the best we could of hoped for given the past week imo