Versarien Share Discussion Threads

[festario] 24/6/2024 13:50

Catapult into the stratosphere. Lol I remember that so well.

[festario] 24/6/2024 09:49

Wonderful stuff.

[bbmsionlypostafter mk2] 24/6/2024 09:43

Just had a look going back a few pages of the link above.

Absolute comedy gold!

Scrutable: The cohort of VRS investors undoubtedly contain some of the brightest minds in UK finance and/or science and have forensic abilities good enough to research logically and effectively between the lines. They sometimes remind me of those who unravel Egyptian heiroglyphics and Hebrew scriptures. I include my old friend, superg our resident guide and policeman, who has already fully covered the subject fully and as usual, well..


Zagrosfold: The reason I am virtually all-in on vrs is down to Neill. He stands out from the crowd of businessmen in that he seems to want to change the world with this technology and has seen the bigger picture. As the biggest shareholder why would you dilute your earnings potential by signing away chunks of your business for big cheques. Short-term he could gain massively but he is not that kind of guy.


hattie1
This great United Kingdom at the heart of a new industrial revolution with graphene , VRS the only certified graphene producer in the world, global domination and today being acknowledged by our new Prime Minister

...continues until it doesn't.

[bbmsionlypostafter mk2] 24/6/2024 09:31

If you have an interest in the embarrassing, search this & other VRS threads for 'This Day In History'.

[66sequoia] 24/6/2024 09:30

htTps://www.linkedin.com/posts/juan-manuel-goenaga-castro-emprendedor_que-te-parece-activity-7210449213258645504-d3uZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

[the cronk] 24/6/2024 09:18

BB,

Some embarassing recaps there.

I wonder at what point Shavian and Cowie sold out? If they did of course, maybe they're still in and hoping for a "turnaround"?

It's fairly well known that some journos are in contact with some of the IR companies, whose job it is to promote their clients' stories.

[bbmsionlypostafter mk2] 23/6/2024 22:18

You can blame poster Shavian from Superg's Thread for the Stupid for getting Cowie involved

Shavian
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Ian Cowie: I first gave him the full heads-up on VRS on 3 July. He had not heard of us then. He was quite intrigued by graphene but like most observers he was still assuming it was a story for the decades to come. He knows otherwise now and should be fully up to date as he should now be in receipt of my AGM notes as well as all the RNS history.

[bbmsionlypostafter mk2] 23/6/2024 22:10

owenga
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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.

[the cronk] 23/6/2024 17:33

hxxps://www.thetimes.com/business-money/money/article/investing-apple-novo-nordisk-ian-cowie-r0rnjv8kp


Oh dear!

Subscription required, but I guess a few here will subscribe so worth posting the link.

I wonder how many were sucked in on his original article?

[busters] 23/6/2024 12:12

Ian Cowie naming Versarien as one his disasters in today's S. Times, paid £1.77 in October 2018.

[sparkling banana] 23/6/2024 10:36

Fuji99, the turnaround project was finished ages ago, it was the recommendation to become a manufacturing-light company (in the words of the recent interrim report). Nothing more than that as there is really not much to turnaround is there?

[purchaseatthetop] 23/6/2024 07:04

Ha! Shows how much you know Kemche! Markets are closed today.

*tsk*

[kemche] 22/6/2024 19:53

"Hey Kemche , hidden gems … they’ve found VAST’s missing diamonds :-)"

There's no need to bring that up here. I will be as successful there as I have been here. Just you wait and see. I continue to average down on a daily basis.

[dil 21] 22/6/2024 18:53

Hey Kemche , hidden gems … they’ve found VAST’s missing diamonds :-)

[fuji99] 19/6/2024 12:06

66seqyoia - They are starting to tweet - Meaning they need more dosh.
Look at this comedy, still using sensational words and written probably from a golf course !
Do they really do or have any R & D, apart from turning around all year asking for money ? -

"Once a month, @versarien's R&D team dives into graphene and advanced material research aligned with our own research activities from recent breakthroughs to unearthing hidden gems from the past that can offer us valuable insights.

Read this theatrical expression !
"from recent breakthroughs to unearthing hidden gems from the past"

Are they talking about the Water Cooled Computers from the past ?
Or the "recent breakthoughs" that took the share price to ZERO ?

R & D only "Once a month" apparently.

They are really ridiculous these guys ! Amazing !

[66sequoia] 19/6/2024 11:55

hTtps://x.com/versarien/status/1803376322380484735?t=MNizsWjgbn1q72jKhJOJFQ&s=19

[fuji99] 19/6/2024 10:13

Did anybody ask at least once, what did they mean by "turnaround project" ? What's the content of the "plan" ? Otherwise I know it: Raising money to play golf, drink champagne and write tweets from every visited golf course with this famous spiky charade: "You ain't seen nothing yet".

[seedoftongo] 19/6/2024 07:40

How can he not know ?

BOTTLE JOB .

It’s cringeworthy the way you pretend not to know Fest.
Btw , how hard are you ?
Do you prefer to keep any fighting skill set secret until the actual moment you are required to fight ?
What tactic do you use ?
Go for a bop on the nose straight away , or do you duck dive feign , suss the opponent out , maybe wear them out if you are fitter than them ?

Is it bare knuckle on concrete all the time ?
Does it really have to be on concrete ?
How’s about on the grass for a potential rematch ?

[seedoftongo] 19/6/2024 07:08

Ignore the basketball 🏀 head Festario.
A bottle job from north wales.
A know nowt investor also .

Whitey lad , I think you should retire the PWhite alias .
It’s over .
Reputation no more .
Wrong and defeated.

[zydecoco] 19/6/2024 05:53

You said it PW, so you will be defeated if it happens. Just admit it.

[philbyk144] 18/6/2024 23:21

Mate you have to be troll. Your determining factor of perceived success is whether its market cap is valued at £900k or £1.8 million!