Bear raider Evil Knievil lost £40,000 shorting Quindell Portfolio (QPP) last time around but he has opened up a material short position after results yesterday, but has been prevented from letting folks know about it. I am always here to help…I am that sort of all-round nice guy.
At 35p Quindell is now capitalised at £2.1 billion. Results for calendar 2013 were released yesterday and are not designed for easy reading. There is so much verbiage, restatement of prior year numbers, PR flim flam and general information given that it is terribly hard to get a clear picture of what is going on.
The bulls would point to a 133% increase in sales (to £380 million) and how adjusted pre-tax profits soared by 133% to £133.7 million giving adjusted earnings of 2.54p an increase of 75%. A PE of 14 for such growth surely this is a bargain. Well er…up to a point.
Profit is a matter of opinion, cash is a matter of fact. And the cash generated at an operational level was truly pitiful
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