19 days ago
Colin Bird’s Kendrick Resources (KEN) is Main Market listed so its directors take responsibility fir the contents of an RNS. On AIM a Nomad must ensure statements made are verifiable but on the Main Market companies can say what they wish as it is unlikely that the FCA will pull them up if they over-egg the pudding. That brings us to today’s RNS from Kendrick Resources which simply would not be allowed on AIM
54 days ago
Today marked the last day for Main Market listed companies to publish their audited results for the year ended 31 December 2025 and the following companies all had their shares suspended because of their inability to publish those results.
69 days ago
Today’s step up to the Main Market by Onward Opportunities (ONWD) marks another departure from AIM. And what Onward does yells you just how serious investors perceive AIM – it is a company that invests in small caps!
73 days ago
When Amaroq (AMRQ) moves from the AIM Casino to the main market its market cap means that it will go straight into the FTSE 250 Index which will mean that there may be a bit of buying by Index funds but there will certainly be buying by funds that would not buy shares in a FTSE Small Cap let alone a company on AIM. But could KEFI Gold & Copper (KEFI) also get into the FTSE 250? Do not laugh.
78 days ago
On Wednesday 25 March shareholders in worthless perma dog Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) voted to quite the Main Market once a move to the AQSE lobster pot had been finalized and the company said it was looking to appoint n AQSE advisor “over the weekend” (28/29 March) and that a move would take 4-6 weeks. Here we are and there is still no news of an appointment,. I wonder why?
120 days ago
My thoughts on the promotion from the AQSE lobster pot to the Main Market are HERE. But with the sky full of soon to be exercised 2.5p warrants my NBF Andrew Webley rang the opening bell at the LSE today. Please provide a suitable caption in the comments section below.
120 days ago
This morning my NBF Andrew Webley of the Smarter Web Company (SWC)ran the opening bell for the LSE to mark Smarter’s move from AQSE to the Main Market. This sort of ceremony is, I think, an import from the USA and like Trick or Treat, Lloyd Grossman and Ellen DeGeneres I rather regret the import. But what does the move say about the shares and the wider markets?
124 days ago
As this website exposed, Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) lied with its very first RNS when it joined the main market at 1p just over five years ago. It claimed to have raised cash before joining but its later published annual reported showed that it had not. The cash came in after the IPO once spivs had flipped the stock as the company, floated as an oil explorer, spoofed mugs with a supposed foray into blockchain taking the shares to almost 4p. Today there is a a killer admission, in fact four killers and the shares are just 0.055p, a market cap of a Bernie and a Half. That is far too high..
126 days ago
According to the LSE the 559 companies on the AIM Casino, the self styled world’s most successful growth market, have a combined market cap of c#42 billion. Well up to a point. The past 2 days have seen two of the largest companies announce they are off to the Main Market this year.
153 days ago
The exodus at AIM continues. Today two AIM index 100 companies announced that they will be leaving the market.
229 days ago
After another bleat about the NHS and a thought on a fig tree arriving later today, if only to wind up Jimbo, as bitcoin tests $100,000 ( going down) again I reflect on a comment by Peter Schiff. Then I discuss why and when Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), and, in due course, Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) should move from AIM to the Main Market
310 days ago
I covered the latest Jerry Keen feck up that is Cel AI (CLAI) here. It has raised #10 million but in doing so found itself set to be slung off the Main Market so is heading to the AQSE lobster pot, a move touted as a triumph by those paid to promote but which others can see as a disaster. Now it seems that Keen’s Oak Securities is starting to spill the beans. How is the FCA not all over this?
429 days ago
I realise that I am yet to send out the 2023 and 2024 readers tips of the year prizes. But two bottles of Greek Hovel Olive oil (January 2025 harvest) have now been poured and I aim to send them this week. Meanwhile, after the Trump market upset our writers are penning 8 new tips of the year (Easter to December 31) so why should readers not have another contest. As ever the prize here is Greek Hovel olive oil.
563 days ago
Today’s announcement by Gamma Communications (GAMA) that it is planning to leave the AIM casino and move up to the Main Market is a positive for the company. According to its AIM admission document it joined AIM on 10 October 2014 at a Market Capitalisation of £165.2 million. Gamma’s market capitalisation now is £1.5 billion with shares up over 700% since its listing. This is what AIM should be about, good quality companies listing which grow in size and reward shareholders and graduating to the Main Market.
1496 days ago
It is only ten and a half months since online furniture seller Made.com (MADE) listed on the Main Market, raising £100million by issuing new shares at 200p while existing shareholders lobbed out a cheeky £90 million of stock onto gullible institutions. Today, after a dismal profits warning, the shares are just 56p to sell. Meanwhile another rat has left the sinking ship as it burns through its ill gotten IPO gains ever more rapidly.
2474 days ago
Diversified Gas & Oil (DGOC), the largest oil company on AIM and an enterprise whose accounts are being scrutinised by the FRC for a wholesale breach of IFRS guidelines, has announced it plans to move from the Casino to the Premium segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in Q1 2020. Both Avanti (AVN) and Quindell (QPP) made similar promises to try to keep their shares afloat. Neither actually made it off AIM as promised although, several years later, an almost bankrupt Avanti will be delisting altogether.
3500 days ago
The headline is "Zegona to appoint KPMG as auditor." For Zegona (ZEG) which upgraded from AIM to the main market just over a year ago that sounds like a positive enough move. But...
3819 days ago
Investment Case: Despite in its current form only listing last year, principally IT personnel provider FDM Group (FDM) is a company we have have previously followed – its shares having previously been on AIM before the group was taken private in 2010. The shares were re-listed, this time on the main market, in June 2014 at 287p and exceeded 575p a couple of months ago before slipping back to a current 530p offer price. This makes its operational growth momentum and (growing) dividend interesting and sees the shares now rated as a buy.
4072 days ago
I met up with Mark Gustafson of main market listed Challenger Acquisitions (CHAL) before UK Investor Show 2015 and he seemed very switched on indeed. His presentation and the show was captured on video so see what you think.
