Wey Education Share Price (WEY)

Share Name	Share Symbol	Market	Type	Share ISIN	Share Description
Wey Education Plc	LSE:WEY	London	Ordinary Share	GB00B54NKM12	ORD 1P

	Price Change	% Change	Share Price	Shares Traded	Last Trade
	-0.35p	-3.78%	8.90p	1,126,874	11:48:27

Bid Price		Offer Price	High Price	Low Price	Open Price
8.70p		9.10p	9.25p	8.30p	9.25p

Industry Sector	Turnover (m)	Profit (m)	EPS - Basic	PE Ratio	Market Cap (m)
Support Services	4.19	-0.23	-0.16		11.6

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Date	Time	Source	Headline
16/5/2019	10:40	UKREG	Wey Education PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding
13/5/2019	11:05	UKREG	Wey Education PLC Second Price Monitoring Extn
13/5/2019	11:00	UKREG	Wey Education PLC Price Monitoring Extension
13/5/2019	08:56	ALNC	Wey Education Shares Surge As New Strategy Bears Fruit
13/5/2019	07:35	ALNCF	Alliance News Flash Headline
13/5/2019	07:00	UKREG	Wey Education PLC Half-year Report
11/4/2019	16:30	ALNC	Wey Education Terminates UK Online Education Company Acquisition
11/4/2019	16:03	UKREG	Wey Education PLC Termination of potential acquisition
26/2/2019	13:08	ALNC	Wey Education Confident Outlook As Focuses On Growing Business
26/2/2019	07:00	UKREG	Wey Education PLC Result of AGM

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Date	Time	Title	Posts
24/5/2019	09:54	WEY Education - The Future	1,943
09/5/2018	12:28	Interview WEY EDUCATION	1
11/4/2018	15:35	Interview with Wey Education	-
19/1/2018	10:56	WEY EDUCATION Interview and Q&A	1
18/9/2017	07:26	Wey Education plc (WEY)	898

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24/5/2019 09:20	Wey Education Daily Update: Wey Education Plc is listed in the Support Services sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker WEY. The last closing price for Wey Education was 9.25p. Wey Education Plc has a 4 week average price of 5.35p and a 12 week average price of 5.10p. The 1 year high share price is 19.25p while the 1 year low share price is currently 5.10p. There are currently 130,707,120 shares in issue and the average daily traded volume is 1,325,051 shares. The market capitalisation of Wey Education Plc is £11,306,165.88. Read Full Thread Reply
18/5/2019 07:35	bones: I agree BP, the potential here longer term is huge and the share price should reflect that IF the market gets into a mode of anticipating the growth. Clearly, until the interims came out putting a lid on the costs of exiting the “Massie era”, the market gave the company zero credit. Very happy to sit back now and enjoy the ride. Have a good weekend. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
15/4/2019 09:21	bones: Net, as I just posted there (TRD), at least TRD has the benefit of rising dividends, no debt and an ex-cash PER of about 3. Crucially it is not having to kitchen sink some old expansion missteps. Like WEY, however, there is the perceived share overhang which may or not be a red herring in the valuation department, plus we need to hear how trading has gone in the last six months (TRD and WEY). I agree that both companies are looking stupidly undervalued if you exclude their cash. I also agree that WEY are highly unlikely to be spending much of their cash pile on the clearing up process but the market needs to have the situation laid out in a new update before any progress can be made in share price. I feel February’s update was too vague in terms of the costs of closing down the Massie projects. I am talking like a shareholder here but I do not hold WEY currently but I do have an itchy trigger finger! I cannot really see it dropping much further but I have to be disciplined and I am well invested elsewhere with no plans to sell those currently. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
13/4/2019 19:09	netcurtains: As far as I understand it. WEY has about £4M in the bank. WEY has a Market Cap of about £6M. WEY is growing fast in a very interesting market segment (Online education). Gut feeling is, within 12 months, its quite realistic to see the share price double from here to about 13p. (on known facts, of course there are a lot of unknowns - as there is with all shares) Read Full Thread Follow Reply
09/1/2019 16:16	netcurtains: Daz: I'm no expect, but expectations are in the share price. Therefore the market expectations are very very very low (eg if the market expected brilliant results it would have a mega high share price). However I suspect "insiders" expect the company to show reasonable growth. So should really be trading at over 22p - up to 30p range ... But dont hold your breath. Cheers Net. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
18/12/2018 11:13	microscope: Miton: "Overall, this strategy has generated significant capital gains for our shareholders since launch. For example, the company's holdings in Wey Education (WEY) and Versarian (VRS) were trimmed at an earlier stage than the holding in Zotefoams (ZTF), which has been retained in full despite its major share price appreciation.... ...Zotefoams is the trust's third biggest holding at 2.9% of assets while Versarian ranks 17th at 1.4% and Wey at 40th on 0.9%." Read Full Thread Follow Reply
23/8/2018 17:18	seanworld: Post from G.Neary from Stockopedia. He's not buying as yet but now watching. Must be a good sign! With some good wishes for the company thrown in! Share price: 15.75p (+12%) No. of shares: 130 million Market cap: £20.5 million Trading Update Wey Education plc (AIM: WEY), the educational services group provides this trading update for its year ending 31 August 2018 and announces certain other matters. I looked at this company when it released interim results in May, on a day when the share price crashed by over 30%. The shares have continued to drift lower since then. Thankfully, today's update is a lot more positive. Sales will exceed expectations, while underlying P&L will be in line with expectations. Sales in its online high school business, Interhigh, improved by 20%. Its Chinese JV is about to start making sales, and the Nigerian subsidiary should begin operating some time in the Autumn. Adjusted PBT is set to come in at £400k - £500k, but that's only after very heavily adjusting it. It's still at a very early stage in its plans, so it's not making any real profits. There are no "current intentions" to issue shares, but the Board is seeking the authority to issue up to 40 million new shares, so we can't rule out the possibility that they will. Paul was caught out when the company did a placing at a 33% discount to the prevailing share price last November. My view Online education is a growing sector all around the world, and I wish the company well in its new activities in China and Nigeria. For the same reasons as I mentioned last time, it's not something I would personally invest in yet. But I will keep an eye on it for signs that it is succeeding Read Full Thread Follow Reply
03/8/2018 16:26	seanworld: Yes surprised to hear (if he has) P.Scott has sold out completely. He was one of the few who remained positive even on last results. There has been a seller over the last 3-4 weeks, so hopefully if indeed it was Paul then he is all done. I recently had some communication with D.Massie and I've just re-read his replies. For anyone holders who missed it just a gentle reminder Thank you for your email which has been passed to me. Before turning to the issue of the share price, let me deal with another point in your email regarding results because there appears to be a common misconception about the interim results. The company did not “miss” a target. If the wording of the Interim Announcement is examined, what it actually said was that “we remain on track to meet our expectations for adjusted profitability for the year although this is likely to be achieved on lower than previously planned revenues”. What we were therefore saying was that we could make the same level of income but on reduced turnover, by concentrating on better margin business and cost control. Perhaps we could have worded it better but this was supposed to be positive news, rather than negative. In fact, the first section of the announcement under “Outlook”; said “the Company is pleased with progress in the first half”. In that announcement, not only did we give an update on the progress we made with the Academy 21 acquisition, but we also announced exciting new ventures in both China and Nigeria. I have read some of the social media comment and some shareholders are unrealistic in the time frame that they expect for things to happen. Negotiating international deals is not like popping down to Tesco’s for a pint of milk. They take time and also care to ensure that the company is protected and that the business ventures are long term and sustainable. It is but two months since we made the Interim Announcement and the directors continue to work towards the aims set out in the interim statement. The aim rules which govern companies like Wey include a provision that if anything changes materially, the company must make an announcement and so if anything had gone wrong, we would be under an obligation to make an announcement. As you note, we have made no announcement. The type of announcement you mention “no reason for”, normally applies when there is a sudden movement in share prices up or down. The decline we have seen in the Wey share price, which is hurtful to all the board of directors who are either shareholders or hold options, has not been one characterised by big moves. Instead, there has been consistent small selling of parcels of shares. None of these has been particularly large but as we all know, it only takes more sellers than buyers to drive a price down. I get the registrars reports regularly and the market makers are not sitting on large numbers of shares and so other shareholders are taking the opportunity to buy shares from those who lack patience at these attractive prices because the number of shares sold has to equal the number of shares bought. It is unclear why shareholders are not showing more patience. If you compare Wey with standard AIM company, then we have done more to communicate with our private investors than most and our announcements are more detailed than most. Wey has never been about something overnight, but about building a sustainable and profitable business by disrupting the existing education sector. I am hopeful that when we come to publish the results to the year to August, many of those who have sold their shares in recent weeks will come to see their actions as foolhardy and regret their decision. All I can say in the meanwhile is “keep the faith” and note that I have not sold any shares, but actually added to my holding this year. With the benefit of hindsight, the wording of the announcement could have been better phrased. No excuses, but sometimes too many cooks get involved and something is lost. The board meeting to approve the results thought that they and the announcements would be well received – how wrong we were. Incidentally all our institutional investors were chilled and could not see what the fuss was about. Despite the sales downgrade the pace of expansion in our sales can only be dreamed of at most companies. In 2015 this business was doing £1 million a year. WHI are forecasting sales of £4.1 million for the year to 31/8/18 and that to more than double next year. How many small AiM companies are majority owned by institutions, are in our comfortable cash position and can boast of that sort of growth? In a (small) growing company (this is my third over thirty years where I have been chairman), there are bound to be peaks and troughs because of the nature of the beast and that small events have a disproportionate effect on small companies. However, that is part of the excitement and what makes them so interesting. No one really seems to have noticed that so excited by Wey am I, that I have given up career where I ran my own successful corporate finance business to concentrate on Wey 100%. But I am loving it. Not only are we going to change the way in which education is delivered worldwide but we are going to make a difference to children’s lives around the world. But this is a multiyear operation. Thank you for your repeated support as a shareholder and the whole executive team is committed to not letting you down. We share a common vision. Indeed, the new HR director took a huge pay cut to join us because he is so excited about what we do and wanted the equity play that comes with his option package. As they say the best is yet to come. Kind regards David L Massie Read Full Thread Follow Reply
12/7/2018 14:14	seanworld: Well done QS99 and bones. (excellent average) & barnetpeter. I do remember you calling 13p around the time of results. Nice to see some positivity. I will also add that David included the following yesterday (lengthy exchange) with regards to 'the seller' The decline we have seen in the Wey share price, which is hurtful to all the board of directors who are either shareholders or hold options, has not been one characterised by big moves. Instead, there has been consistent small selling of parcels of shares. None of these has been particularly large but as we all know, it only takes more sellers than buyers to drive a price down. I get the registrars reports regularly and the market makers are not sitting on large numbers of shares and so other shareholders are taking the opportunity to buy shares from those who lack patience at these attractive prices because the number of shares sold has to equal the number of shares bought Read Full Thread Follow Reply
16/5/2018 12:42	mcfly79: I’m grateful for the opportunity to have built a position at these prices since the results announcement, including some more today to take me to just shy of 500k shares. Tempted to add even more but will wait for now. I like the long term prospects for the sector and see WEY as establishing itself as the dominant UK player. I appreciate people are unhappy with the turnover growth of Interhigh being lower than previously forecast and the reporting of marketing costs as exceptional. The company raised funds to invest in building the business and will continue to do so. This will result in setup and marketing costs in the short term. The company has chosen to strip those costs out in reporting adjusted earnings. Clearly there will be a degree of subjectivity around to what extent these costs are exceptional. There’s clearly a feeling by investors that Interhigh revenue may not climb as quickly as previously forecast. Only time will time. Next year (2018/19) the growth is mostly about the B2B business (both in the UK and abroad). WHIreland are forecasting Wey ecademy sales (including A21) to climb from £1.3m this year to £3.5m next year and the first Chinese revenue will start next year. Revised WHIreland forecast for next year are for revenue of £9.6m and adjusted profit of £2.5m. Perhaps more importantly they are forecasting a £2.2m increase in net cash (from £3.5m to £5.7m). Cash figure are obviously after all costs (exceptional or otherwise). Clearly if they achieve this the current share price will look far too low. As I type the enterprise value of WEY is c.£16m so that would be a cash flow multiple of 7-8. There is a lot to achieve to get to those figures for next year but what I’m really invested for are the medium term international opportunities, especially China. China’s online education market is growing rapidly. From 156bn Yuan (£18bn) in 2016 to a forecast 543bn Yuan (£63bn) in 2022. hxxp://www.iresearchchina.com/content/details7_40642.html The success of VIPKID shows the huge market in China for online lessons with native English speakers. After just 4 years from incorporation they were forecasting $750m in sales for 2017. The majority of VIPKID’s sales is from one to one private lessons for young children in China (age 4-12) with ‘teachers̵7; in North America. You don’t need to be a qualified teacher to work for VIPKID (you just need some experience in teaching, mentoring, tutoring etc). WEY are looking to tap into the same demand for native English teaching. What WEY can offer is a UK based qualified teacher, very attractive to the Chinese audience. In contrast to VIPKID, WEY are initially targeting the state sector (with follow up private referrals). As I understand it, English is generally part of the school curriculum in China but with a focus on reading and writing. It’s recognised that speaking is a weak point for students and hence the demand for lessons with native English speakers. The establishment of the JV will be a huge step. WEY will be partnered with a listed Chinese company who already sell their products into schools across China and have a good knowledge of the market the JV is looking to target. I’ve worked a little bit with Chinese companies and I know that some investors have reservations. Why it works so well for VIPKID, and will work for WEY, is that the English speaking teachers are the key commodity in the arrangement. The Chinese company needs WEY’s teachers and expertise as much as WEY needs the Chinese company. If anyone knows of any other company that is better placed than WEY to tap into the Chinese demand for native English speakers (and replicate some of the success of VIPKID) please let me know. Certainly there are bigger providers of online educational services and certainly there are bigger bricks and mortar education providers in the UK but WEY is the largest online school in the UK with experience of offering formal teaching online. VIPKID has sold itself as offering a US elementary school education experience to the Chinese and I think WEY is best placed to do the same thing with UK teachers. WEY is also 2 years down the line in progressing a Chinese deal to get it to this stage. Any comments, positive or negative most welcome. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
04/9/2017 12:21	netcurtains: Woodcutter: You've probably missed off a part of the "word of mouth". Since WEY share price has increased probably hundreds if not thousands of new people have now heard of WEY (investors). In a sense the company has already reached a "tipping point" in the numbers of people in the UK investing community who have heard of it. The next tipping point is for TEENAGERS on WHATSAPP and SNAPCHAT to talk about it. The demand is going to come mainly from TEENAGERS themselves. Read Full Thread Follow Reply

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