graphene

418 days ago

The delayed Versarien annual report part 2 – more heroic assumptions on the non graphene businesses

Finally the delayed annual report arrived yesterday allowing us to see what exactly cash strapped Versarien (VRS) was hiding in its abridged annual results. Yesterday I showed the wholly unrealistic claims regarding graphene which were made to avoid huge intangible writedowns. Now to the non-graphene businesses which is almost as ludicrous.

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421 days ago

Versarien Annual Report out: what it was hiding part 1 – the heroic Graphene growth assumptions supporting nil impairment

Finally, a week after publishing dreadful results Versarien (VRS) has published its full annual report for the 18 months to 30 September 2022. When this company goes bust, what it was hiding will be used to drag it and auditors BDO through hell and back, via the FRC. The main issue is goodwill and the balance sheet but there is also the pay rise loathsome  Neill Ricketts was given.

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428 days ago

Versarien Results – Neill Ricketts says graphene is a growth business, the numbers don’t lie – he does

Earlier I showed the looming cash crisis at Neill Rickett’s failing Versarien (VRS). Ricketts is trying to pump the shares claiming that graphene is a “growth business”. He is ‘avin’ a giraffe.

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453 days ago

EXPOSE: Versarien – can it possibly dodge a huge intangible write off when results are published?

When Versarien’s (VRS) results for the extended month period ended 30 September 2022 are published before the end of January 2023, I am expecting them to be a piss poor sea of red but will they also be impacted by an impairment charge for the Graphene business intangible assets?

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820 days ago

Verditek – desperate last ditch spoof as the money runs out, does nobody check prior RNS statements?

This is so desperate it is almost pathetic. Instead of serving up its traditional January end of year lack of sales, mounting losses, lies about contracts exposed and perilous cash position statement, Verditek (VDTK) has a spoof RNS  which is a joke. What investors need to know is the cash position and how the company is going to raise more money to keep the lights on. So to the spoof. It is almost worthy of Neill Ricketts. Apparently solar panels might be even better if they contained graphene.

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864 days ago

BREAKING: Versarien – inadequate revenue disclosures, breach of IFRS 8 & cash nightmare

Let’s start with a positive.  Versarien (VRS) now separates its revenues and losses between graphene and non-graphene business as we have long suggested it should do.  This avoids the need for Shareprophets to undertake an annual visit to Companies House to perform the analysis to reveal the low ongoing graphene sales and the scale of the losses that are being racked up in this business.

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993 days ago

Versarien Results are truly diabolical

It is hard to know where to begin with the results from Versarien (VRS) for the year to March 31 2021. They are, at every level, just utterly diabolical. However much the morally bankrupt PR spinners at Yellow Jersey – who else would act for such scoundrels – try to polish the turd, it is still a turd.

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1039 days ago

Versarien – Time for some more honest disclosures about the Graphene business performance

Shoddy AIM promote Versarien (VRS) presents and markets itself as graphene led business.  Its annual reports contain huge narrative detail on its graphene business but the plastics and hardware business barely get a mention (limited to a paragraph or two for each).  Furthermore, its recent acquisitions being Hanwha Aerospace for £4.34 million and Gnanomat for £3.0 million were both in the graphene space and the graphene business now represent the majority of the goodwill on the balance sheet.  It had a recent strategic investment by a South Korean firm called Graphene Lab.  Its retail investor base is clearly focused on the potential for hockey stick growth in revenue and profits from graphene products as relentlessly promoted by loathsome CEO Neill Ricketts.

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1095 days ago

Is Neill Ricketts causing cancer with Versarien’s face masks? Read a scientific paper suggesting the answer may be YES

Shares in Versarien (VRS) have been ramped, in as much as you can ramp a cash guzzling POS, on the back of its graphene enhanced face masks. But as I pointed out yesterday there is, despite Ricketts’ misleading RNS claims – no scientific study on humans to show that they either stop one human transmitting covid to another but, worse still, there is no proof they do not harm wearers. It gets worse: there is evidence from a scientific study that they may well harm wearers which is why Spain, Ireland and Canada have already moved to ban and recall such products.

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1095 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Ignoring Brokerman Dan's advice on underwear for walks as I do 24 miles today

The photos later (not of underpants), the walk is done but I paid the penalty of ignoring dan’s golden rule. We have now raised more than £14,000 and as you think of my pain today will the 96% of bearcast listeners who have yet to donate please do so here. Otherwise I will talk about Dan’s underpants again. In the rest of the podcast I take issue with ex soccer player Andrew Johnson on tax and then look in detail at the claims made by Versarien (VRS) about its graphene enhanced face nappies and why they do not stack up at two levels and, as such, why there really should be a UK product recall.

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1097 days ago

BREAKING: Now the move against graphene face masks moves to Ireland – they will be coming for you next Versarien

Oh dear, oh dear. It never rains but it pours for loathsome Neill Ricketts the boss of grossly overvalued AIM promote Versarien (VRS). Now realising that his attempts to gag a Bulletin Board critic will end in a humiliating climbdown, his week just got even worse news with developments in Eire. You will remember how Canada has moved to ban graphene enhanced face nappies?

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1114 days ago

Breaking: Neill Ricketts & Versarien to launch graphene-enhanced CBD range

I can exclusively reveal that Neill Ricketts will be announcing later today the launch by Versarien (VRS) of a new range of graphene-enhanced CBD Range and that in order to maximise value for shareholders, this new division, Versarien Blockchain CBD, is to be spun off onto the AIM casino via a separate IPO. In terms of the cash needed for the project, Ricketts says “funding secured.”

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1161 days ago

Deep Dive Number crunch on the sham Versarien: Part II - the Plastic and Graphene Products segment

Following on from Part 1 my analysis of the Metal and Hard Wear division, I now take a look at the Graphene and Plastics products segment of Versarien (VRS). This is the sexy bit used by loathsome Neill Ricketts and his moronic followers to justify a market cap of £88 million, at 47p. As we saw earlier, the rest of the business cannot be worth much over £3 million!.

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1310 days ago

EXPOSED Versarien – Graphene sales remain tiny and the cash position is getting critical

Now that Versarien (VRS) has finally published its annual report, I have had a look and drawn out a few highlights.   As the subsidiary accounts are not yet filed at Companies House it is not yet possible to perform the detailed analysis of the results to show how exactly how little the Graphene sales were as I did for last year’s results showing that sales were just £26,000.  However, I show below an indicative analysis by analysing the elements that Versarien does disclose and it makes for grim reading for the deluded followers of Neill Ricketts. 

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1559 days ago

EXCLUSIVE: Versarien – even management or the auditors no longer believe a substantial growth in Graphene sales is credible in the near future

The annual report does not lie. It is just a shame that the Bulletin board savants do not read them carefully. Like all companies, Versarien (VRS) is required to carry out an annual impairment test to justify the carrying value of goodwill recorded on the balance sheet which is £4,431,000 and comprised the following: 

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1561 days ago

EXPOSE: Versarien – are graphene sales just a nano amount of group turnover? The hard and shocking data revealed

Uber ramp Versarien (VRS) refuses adamantly to break out how much of its business is actually involved in graphene. It is the graphene hype which explains why the shares are at 79.5p valuing the company at £122 million. The legacy non graphene activities may generate real sales but will never be material cash cows and thus are fundamentally almost worthless. So how much does Versarien actually make from graphene? 

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1764 days ago

BOMBSHELL: Versarien is its US oil graphene order a total spoof? A hard look at the maths – what it won’t tell you

Yesterday, shares in Versarien (VRS) raced ahead by 10% as it announced an order with an (un-named, natch) US oil and has explorer for 12 kg of its high purity graphene nano platelets (GNP-HP) integrated into a polymer masterbatch by Neill Rickett’s great Britiosh Company. But the RNS did not spell out the value. And doing his, almost, weekly ramp on Justin the Clown’s promotional limp dick podcast he again refused to say. So here is some hard maths: I suggest this order may be a spoof.

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3756 days ago

Q&A with Tim Baldwin, Non-Executive Chairman of Cientifica PLC

I met up with Tim Baldwin, Non-Executive Chairman of Cientifica (CTFA), an AIM listed investing company focusing on the acquisition of businesses making use of advanced materials, graphene and emerging technologies the other day. I do not get ‘investing companies’, so why is this one different? I had a few questions for Tim – with the share price at 3.375p, his company is valued at just £800,000.

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