Lou Gutheil

Whilst the share price of  Proximagen Group (LSE:PRX) has hovered around the 140.00p region for three years, since March of this year the charted increase in share price looks like the launch of a space shuttle. Following today’s release of interim results and the pending acquisition of the company by US pharmaceutical company Upsher-Smith Laboratories (USL), […]

How steep is a 61% slope? The chart for Thalassa Holdings (LSE:THAL) shows you how steep a slope it is, following the announcement this morning of a new joint venture and the release of a related trading update, as the share price had soared by 18.00p to 47.50p by early afternoon. The Joint Venture Thalassa has entered […]

Ultra Electronics Holdings (LSE:ULE) shares dipped, then recovered today as the defence firm announced its latest in a recent series of acquisitions. After dropping several percentage points in the morning, the price per share had gained 14.00 pence to 1,689.00p by mid-afternoon. The company has exhibited strong growth in share price over the past five […]

IQE (LSE:IQE), the world’s leading supplier of semiconductor wafers, saw its share price surge today following its announcement that it will be taking over the manufacturing facilities of RF Micro Devices (RFMD) located in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. The value of the stock had increased by 12.63% to 26.75p The Agreement RF Micro Devices is […]

Halfords Group (LSE:HFD) share price looked like a downhill slope of the Tour de France today as it continued its descent from the 546.00p peak it had reached in June 2010. After the company published its preliminary year end results, its price on the LSE continued coasting downhill to 247.80p, 28.10p (10.8%) lower than yesterday’s […]

The share price of Helical Bar (LSE:HLCL) rose modestly today, following posting of the company’s final results. Price per share for the property development and investment firm was 169.00p by early afternoon, up 1.00p from yesterday’s close. Report Overview The most significant news in the report was that the company not only finished in the […]

International Consolidated Airlines Group (LSE:IAG) issued its First Quarter Results today, reporting a €230 million loss just inside the upper limits of market expectations of a loss of €230 million to €250 million. Shareholder response to the news seems to underline that it was not totally unexpected, especially during the traditionally weakest quarter of the year.  In […]

Royal Bank of Scotland Group (LSE:RBS) shares continued their bumpy ride since 2008, even after its rather healthy Interim Management Report for the first quarter was issued on Friday morning. RBS stock closed at 24.47p, down a modest 0.33% on trading of 184,525,074 shares. In a rare move during a banking holiday, RBS announced this morning […]

BAE Systems (LSE:BA.) continues to have a bumpy ride, with its share price continuing the recent downward trend. Around February, when it peaked at nearly 340p, shares were going at 286.60p today on the LSE, down from yesterday’s close of 292.40. What’s Going On? Despite reporting results for the last quarter that are consistent with […]

Standard Chartered (LSE:STAN) announced high single-digit growth in revenue in an Interim Management Report for the first quarter of the fiscal year issued this morning.  Oddly, share prices dropped over 3.5% to 1,458.50 by mid-afternoon. The Report In addition to the revenue growth, they reported the low double-digit growth in operating profit during the last […]