Article Category: Moneybags

WHAT NEXT FOR OVOCA BIO INVESTORS?

July 25, 2024

IN A surprise move after the failure of the clinical trials for Ovoca Bio’s Orenetide drug, the CEO, Kirill Golovanov, resigned last week.... Read more »

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CHAOTIC C&C’S PROFITS SET TO GET VERY FIZZY

July 11, 2024

THE C&C saga continues to deliver twists and turns. Less than one year after David Forde stepped down with immediate effect as chief... Read more »

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TONY SMURFIT’S US DREAM COULD BE A NIGHTMARE

July 11, 2024

IF THE agreed €7bn takeover of DS Smith group by International Paper (IP) goes through, this could be Tony Smurfit’s worst nightmare, just... Read more »

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NO TOAST FOR DEBRA CREW AT DIAGEO

June 27, 2024

IT WAS never going to be easy for the new CEO of Diageo to follow Ivan Menezes’s decade-long reign to June 2023. While... Read more »

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AMINEX SHARES DOUBLE AS TANZANIA HEATS UP

June 27, 2024

THE LAST five years have been hugely frustrating for Aminex shareholders, who have been waiting for the company to drill its critical third... Read more »

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KEYWORDS STUDIOS PLAYING THE RIGHT GAME

June 13, 2024

KEYWORDS STUDIOS plc was established in Dublin in 1997 before eventually floating on the AIM market in 2013, driven by then CEO Andrew... Read more »

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PROFITABLE RYANAIR’S PROBLEM IN THE COCKPIT

June 13, 2024

THE RYANAIR results for the full year to March 2024 show a modest 9% increase in passenger numbers to 184 million but a... Read more »

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TIME FOR KEN MURPHY TO TAKE TESCO OUT OF EASTERN EUROPE

May 30, 2024

DUBLIN-BASED Cork native Ken Murphy has one of the biggest retailing jobs in Britain, heading up the £62bn Tesco behemoth. Founded by Jack... Read more »

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CATHAL FRIEL’S EGT LOOKS TASTY FOR RISK TAKERS

May 30, 2024

AT A time when there are fewer and fewer flotations on this side of the Atlantic, Cathal Friel, the CEO and founder of... Read more »

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AIB’S ‘ODD-LOT OFFER’ LEAVES MUCH TO BE DESIRED

May 16, 2024

AIB IS more profitable than ever, recording a €2bn profit last year, but the decision to buy in the holdings of tiny shareholders... Read more »

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TIME FOR ABF TO SPIN OFF PENNEYS/PRIMARK

May 16, 2024

THERE ARE critics who suggest that Arthur Ryan’s Penneys/Primark legacy will not stand up in the online world. This is a dilemma for... Read more »

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CRH SHARES PLATEAU AFTER US ROCKET RIDE

May 2, 2024

THE SWEDES in Cevian Capital will have been popping the champagne corks as a result of the explosion in the CRH share price... Read more »

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CORRE ENERGY’S CORE PROBLEM IS MONEY

May 2, 2024
WITH THE 2023 figures for Corre Energy due to be released at the end of this month, investors will be looking to see if... Read more »

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PHILIPS DELIVERING BLAND TASTE AT GREENCORE

April 18, 2024
NO DOUBT there were high hopes in Greencore that the new CEO, Dalton Philips, would be able to revolutionise the company. It certainly hasn’t... Read more »

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MYLES O’GRADY PUTS LID ON BOI SHARE PRICE

April 4, 2024

IT WAS pretty eyebrow-raising that when Bank of Ireland (BoI) released its full-year results for 2023, showing pre-provisional and pre-exceptional profits that had... Read more »

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ARYZTA’S RECOVERY NOW BAKED INTO SHARE PRICE

April 4, 2024

A COMPANY that has effectively disappeared off the radar here is Aryzta, which is not surprising given its Swiss quote, but there remains... Read more »

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GENE MURTAGH’S STRANGE STRATEGY AT KINGSPAN

March 21, 2024

SHORTLY BEFORE the company’s latest PR debacle at the hands of the EU, Kingspan CEO Gene Murtagh announced a strategy involving the commitment... Read more »

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RISING CAIRN HOMES SHARES STILL UNDERVALUED

March 21, 2024

THE HOUSING crisis continues to dominate politics but, were it not for the raising of almost €1bn in equity between Cairn Homes and... Read more »

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SMURFIT KAPPA INVESTORS TO SUFFER FROM WESTROCK DEAL

March 7, 2024

IT IS always a little odd when a share price rises on the back of poor results. In the case of Smurfit Kappa Group... Read more »

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‘IN PLAY’ KENMARE RESOURCES WORTH $¾BN

March 7, 2024

ALTHOUGH NOT normally an activist shareholder, rather late in the day JO Hambro (which has a 5% stake in Kenmare Resources) has run... Read more »

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FLUTTER SHARES COULD HIT £300 IN NEXT TWO YEARS

February 22, 2024

IT IS quite jaw dropping to delve into the remarkable figures being delivered by gambling behemoth Flutter Entertainment. The company’s market capitalisation is... Read more »

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TAPPING INTO NORWEGIAN ENERGY

February 22, 2024

IT IS hard to overestimate the impact Eddie O’Connor has had on the renewable energy sector, which is attracting increasing interest from shareholders... Read more »

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I-RES DIRECTORS DESERVE TO BE VOTED OUT

February 8, 2024

FANS OF Moneybags will not have been surprised by moves by 5% dissident shareholder in I-Res Reit, Vision Capital Corp (VCC), to requisition... Read more »

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MAURICE HEALY’S LATEST CRASH-LANDING

February 8, 2024

MAURICE HEALY floated off software company Glantus on the AIM market in London with an air of optimism in June 2021 at £1... Read more »

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ACTION REQUIRED AT MOLTEN VENTURES

January 25, 2024

IT CONTINUES to be very difficult to make sense of what is going on inside Molten Ventures plc. There have been some startling... Read more »

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TIME FOR KEATING TO DELIVER AT FD TECHNOLOGIES

January 25, 2024

OVER FOUR years on from the death of FD Technologies founder Brian Conlon, the company continues to struggle to convince the market that... Read more »

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RYANAIR SHARES SET TO SOAR, UNLESS…

January 11, 2024

THE STARS have been aligning for Ryanair, with Mick O’Leary keeping one eye on the share price given the potential astronomical bonus on... Read more »

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BOTSWANA DIAMONDS LOOKING ROUGH FOR TEELING

January 11, 2024

WHILE JOHN Teeling has been overseeing remarkable success in his whiskey distilling business in Ireland, further afield his Botswana Diamonds mining outfit has... Read more »

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DERMOT SMURFIT’S BET ON GAN BLOWS UP

December 14, 2023

AT ONE stage, after floating off on the American Nasdaq market in May 2020 and raising $50m, the Dermot Smurfit-headed GAN Gaming looked... Read more »

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ORIGIN’S LESS THAN FERTILE PERFORMANCE

December 14, 2023

THE CEO of Origin Enterprises, Sean Coyle, describes the company as “evolving and well positioned for future growth with strong fundamentals and sustainability... Read more »

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MALIN CORP IN NEED OF A MIRACLE CURE

November 30, 2023

IT IS hard to understand exactly what is going on inside Malin Corp, the hotchpotch pharmaceutical investment holding company that Kelly Martin set... Read more »

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CAIRN HOMES’S MONTROSE BONANZA SECURES SHARE PRICE

November 30, 2023

IT IS now over five years since Cairn Homes lashed out a huge €107.5m for RTÉ’s 8.64 acre site in Montrose, south Co... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WHO WILL OVERCOME THE INTEREST RATE AND GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES IN 2024?

November 15, 2023

AFTER A decade of unprecedented low interest rates, the market is not finding it easy to cope with the very hefty 5% increase... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WINNERS AND LOSERS IN 2023

November 15, 2023

THESE ARE pretty uncertain times courtesy of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, inflation, and interest rates. Different sectors have dealt with the... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – NAMA AND THE HOUSING CRISIS

November 15, 2023

AS HOUSING continues to be the domestic political issue of the day, with the Government sweating that it will be the one that... Read more »

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WRITING WAS ON THE WALL FOR HEALTHBEACON

November 2, 2023

BACK IN January last year, Moneybags expressed concern about Jim Joyce’s medtech outfit, HealthBeacon, which had just floated off at €5.85 a share... Read more »

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