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I wonder what has happened to the STL "tap",namely Brewin Dolphin. Over recent months they have regularly dumped significant tranches of stock at below the ruling bid. It seemed a shoe in to me that they would step in to shed a few more when demand for Stilo shares reemerged;yet,so far,this has not transpired,even though MMs bidding for shares, in size, this morning close to the premium highlighted by Dibs61. It could well be that recent developments(AuthorBridge/2015 profitability/potential IBM engagement etc) are notably positive and that there is some awareness of this beyond the company.
Bid is at 5.135p so looking possible any demand is going to push this up again today.
My understanding is that it is the first time that Stilo's share price has gone up more than a penny in one single trading day for some 10 to 15 years. I think the most it has been up in one single day during the last 10 to 15 years was by 0.62 pence. What would be nice is for it to go up further before the company makes any announcement. I feel the current share price is at fair value and I would be pleasantly surprised if it went further. If it does then it should this time stay there. The test would will once the 12 month results are announced. The hope would be for the share price to at least remain within the 5 to 6.5 pence level post results and for it then to build from there. If it does go up close to 10 pence then lukehere can call me "all the names under the sun"!!! and I will totally agree with him with those names
Thanks for the mention,testpack3. It certainly beats the persistent "sledging",which I normally encounter after posting. The Stilo CEO described the " large client" ,which was beta testing Authorbridge, as "patient,helpful and understanding". That client was recently named as being IBM during a recent STL webinar,although a formal announcement has yet been made . Here is a link to the Spring conference in Virginia at which IBM will share a platform with Stilo . http://cm-strategies.com/day1-agenda/iantosca-baker/ As detailed,IBM's Mike Iantosca,who leads multiple software development and test teams across far-flung geographies that design, develop, test, and support advanced publishing technologies including structured based authoring and content management systems,will address a select audience on the subject of Intelligent Content Authoring. Sharing the platform will be Stilo's V.P. Development and Professional Services, Patrick Baker,who heads all new product development at Stilo and is actively engaged in the successful deployment of content processing solutions for publishing clients. For me there is much significance,nuance and piquancy to be taken from the total mismatch in corporate size between the two companies.I believe that STL,working alongside IBM might well be close to delivering the software that will render making intelligent content component strategies for the enterprise no longer such an elusive proposition. The fact that IBM have now been collaborating on the development of AuthorBridge for almost two years might indicate that they have identified Stilo as being the most likely candidate to provide this holy grail of content management software. Over recent months we have noted two separate investors building notifiable stakes of over 3% which at the time served to take the Stilo share price above 6 pence,albeit temporarily. If we see a reemergence of demand for Stilo shares then it may well presage success or sight of it. Whatever happens,it was brilliant to see the share price resume an upward trend throughout the day.
This I suspect is signalling some promising developments. Best day here for some while.
Likewise, I have no idea why the share price is moving but sometimes it is knowledge of the future!.
Yes, by lukehere, 2 below. If it does what it says on the tin, then gravytrain is coming.
Anyone any idea what's going on here today? Has Stilo been tipped somewhere?
"The power of intelligent content becomes possible only when that intelligence is intentionally injected, most often in the form of structure and descriptive semantics. That intelligence helps machines do their automated magic. Most often, the needed structure and semantics are added by humans during content authoring. Content management, for both content development and delivery, generally becomes more powerful, flexible, and valuable with the growth of structure and semantics–but at the price of complexity and required skills for content creators. Structured content authoring tools have advanced, masking some of that complexity, but even so-called lightweight and tag-less authoring tools leave gaps for diverse content creators and contributors, making intelligent content component strategies for the enterprise an elusive proposition." An "elusive proposition",according to IBM and it therefore raises my eyebrow when IBM ant Stilo International are scheduled to co chair a presentation on intelligent content authoring at the Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference in Reston, Virginia on April 4-6 2016. What a potential endorsement for AuthorBridge !! Exciting times then in my book even if not in Brewin Dolphin's.
Author Bridge will certainly help push the revenues and profits upwards from the current very low levels as it is impossible for a listed company like Stilo to allow these to go any lower. 2015 I predict is going to be a good year for Stilo and with the introduction of Author Bridge in 2016, hopefully, depending on how fast the revenues from this stream can follow through to the bottom line, will determine how fast the company can move forward.
Let me explain Lukehere. Just because Author Bridge has been integrated with Acrolinx does not mean that revenues are going to roll in any time soon. Also, just like Migrate and Omnimark this is probably just the initial first version of Author Bridge which will probably be limited to what it can do. After launch, both Migrate and Omnimark took several years of tweaking and upgrading before they were able to generate any notable revenues. Going into partnership with other third parties with their exclusive products is something that Stilo has been doing for the last 15 or 20 years. Stilo. Installing their products alongside other third party providers is something that Stilo has bee doing ever since the word go for many, many years. Omnimark, Migrate, you name it, stilo has done this all the time. Author Bridge now integrated with Acrolinx is another avenue for further revenue integration. This is a fantastic choice of partner. So too are the likes of IBM and Cisco and Boeing. Author Bridge is nothing different and this partnership with Acrolinx and any other partnerships will certainly be a good thing moving forward but at what speed those revenues are going to come through is questionable. Stilo have had exclusive agreements/partnerships both currently and previously with the likes of Boeing, IBM, Cisco and many others but as has been the case with all these gigantic, huge customers the revenues have always just trickled in year after year on a very, very low level. Historic and present revenues for Stilo have always only ever been around the £1 million to £2 million pounds on a yearly basis. For a listed company to achieve such miniscule amounts of revenues just shows how difficult it has been for Stilo to generate revenues on a bigger scale. Not forgetting that this is a small company with some world class customers who have been on their books for many years. Like I said before, this partnership is a fantastic opportunity for Stilo to generate more revenue going forward. Also, lets look at the big company trialling Author Bridge. If Stilo had a worthwhile contract with them in terms of Author Bridge they would have come to the market and reported this by now. They would be shouting about this from the rooftops but they haven't so this leads me to believe that this is on a very low level. If it was anything different the company would have reported this a long time ago. All in all, with Stilo mentioning nothing about the big major customer trialling Author Bridge and now launching it with Acrolinx and with what appears to be a pull back from doing any further trading statements, demonstrates to me that though the company is progressing forward the progress is not on the levels that one would like. The endorsement with Acrolinx is another super achievement but identical achievements have been borne year after year with Stilo and its partners but revenues remain around the £1 to £2 million mark.
Thank you for the further update on your current thinking Stilolosses ! It would possibly be more interesting to consider,say,the implications of the swift integration of Acrolinx with AuthorBridge and whether similar announcements are on the way. One thing seems certain. Your recent claim that, "the product(AuthorBridge) is not ready. It is going to take a very, very long time before it is!",might prove rather ill informed.
Will Author Bride meet expectations? The answer to this will only be known in the when the company reveals it 2016 and 2017 results during the next 2 years. The company has brought to market some incredible and wonderful products during the last 15 years of trading but none of these have ever resulted in an uptake in revenues and profits on any notable scale. This is the very precise reason as to why the share price has always been around the 1 and 5 penny mark. Like any professional market expert will tell you the market does not lie. People do! Anyway, what are my expectations on Author Bridge. This product is based around Migrate and in order for it to have a reasonable amount of uptake the company will have to do what it has always done: Get out there and promote it and sell it to its customers. Showing, promoting and selling a new product to customers from the point it is launched takes years and not months. If you look at Migrate it has only now started to turnover around £300 to £400k per year and this is after being in the market for several years. I believe Author Bridge will have a ok uptake and nothing more than that in the next year or two. The situation can the be assessed again after it has been in the market during this time. It is very good news for shareholders that a small company like this can have huge customers like IBM and everybody else on board but what good is that if the revenue generated from these customers is only bare minimum. In fact, IBM has been a customer for about 15 to 20 years and during this time it has only generated a very, very small amount of revenue probably amounting to about £20k per year. Like I said earlier, Author Bridge is going to be another great, wonderful product just like Migrate and Omnimark etc and I feel the uptake on this is going to be ok and reasonable. Author Bridge is not going to be anything spectacular other than a ok revenue generator. In closing, I remain positive on Stilo on the 3 to 5 year timescale and all shareholders should know that this share is exactly that: Medium to long term and not a quick get in and get out share.
It don't surprise me in the slightest when things go wrong and the same old posters who are first to celebrate and promote management when things go right then decide to remain completely quiet and say nothing at all. Let's take the trading statement that now appears to be extinct from the company's updates to the market. When this was due the same old poster shouted out that it would give us all an update of what was happening. But now that the company has failed to deliver the trading statement the same poster has decided to curl up in a corner and make no mention of it whatsoever. No doubt if a trading statement had been issued he would have shouted from the rooftops about its contents. But as it has not been issued and probably been put on the back burner the same old poster has decided to sidestep the subject. It completely and utterly reminds me of those good old fashioned politicians. The laws around the trading statement and when these need to be issued are clear and the financial industry are very strict on these. Its obvious that management have now been able to get around this by basically pulling out of them altogether in order to make sure that they do not issue another profits warning just like they did last year in 2015. Last year they reported to the market that they would not meet expectations which resulted in a profits warning. In turn this had a negative effect on the share price. At that time the share price fell around the 2 pence mark. This year it appears that they have pulled out of giving any further trading statements whatsoever to the market because they cannot meet market expectations. When a company cannot meet market expectations there is one of two things that a company can do: Option One: It can continue giving trading statements but it has to inform the market that expectations will not be met, in effect issuing another profits warning. But if the company does this it will naturally affect the share price in a negative way just like it did last year. Option Two: The company can give the necessary authority notification that is no longer wishes to issue trading statements and simply continue issuing its 6 month and 12 month results. If the company goes down this route then what that means is that it will not continue issuing profits warnings when it cannot meet set expectations which will, of course, have a negative affect on the share price. I believe that management have decided to utilise option two unless they are very, very, very late in issuing what I believe would have been another profits warning had they gone with continuing to issue trading statements. I don't blame management from pulling out of trading statements altogether as this tactical movement is always at play with smaller companies when they cannot meet market expectations. It helps both the company and its shareholders. My understanding is that the company will certainly continue making good progress but not on th
Only 8 weeks to go until anyway the preliminary results RNS. The shock that I need is one on the upside !
I note from the history of RNS announcements here that last January was the only year a trading statement has been issued. We've had no announcement this year thus far. This could in fact be good news since it appears the reason they issued the statement last year was to alert the market in advance that results would be below expectations. So, no shocks to be expected here.
I already hold far too many STL shares Dibs61. Very probable though that the purchaser will soon show a nice profit,for the current price,for me,is a good entry point,having regard to what we know or/and think we know about Stil International.
Was that your trade luke?
What a bargain buy ; 150,000 STL shares at just 4.18 pence.
I think we can safely rely on AuthorBridge living up to all expectations. "And, as Acrolinx is now integrated with Stilo’s browser-based enterprise DITA authoring solution, AuthorBridge – you can not only guide writers to create great content, you can also guide them to author structured content without requiring any knowledge of DITA or XML. AuthorBridge provides visual controls and cues to guide the author naturally, with no explicit tagging or structure to directly manage, allowing the SME to concentrate exclusively on authoring the content." (The Acrolinx platform helps the world’s greatest brands create amazing content at scale. Content that’s on-brand, on-target, and drives results. Built on an advanced linguistic analytics engine, we have the only software platform that can actually “read” your content and guide writers to make it better.)
It could just be a Bed& ISA though,rather than BD ditching.
Getting pretty peed off with BD. Looks like more selling. They MUST be getting near exiting now. Theres been a lot of selling since the last announcement covering up to 4 Dec. Be glad when they're out and maybe we can move higher then.
Stilo have a long standing 15 year record of low, low, low revenues of around a million and million and half quid. Wow! What great success after 15 years. Migrate revenues will go up by double in 2015 and as has been the case for 15 years everything else will go down! IBM and others have been great, wonderful clients during the last few years. They have contributed so massively towards revenues that they have now grew to a whooping £1.5 million yearly. Absolutely brilliant!!!! The BOD are so incredibly confident that they have now, as it appears, ABANDONED their trading statements or are going to give it very, very, very late after only doing only 1 trading statement in 15 years or so. This is obviosuly very, very, very good news and should help the share price to explode any time soon. The BOD are falling over themselves to give their trading statement. Omnimark has been such a success during the last 15 years that the BOD are going to explode Omnimark revenues and pigs are going to fly tomorrow!! We should all peddle in fiction as we all know that the BOD are going to report record 2015 profits. Just like they have reported for the last 15 years. GUARANTEED there will be no record profits for Stilo! The BOD are so confident that they feel so comfortable in being tremendously late with their trading statement so that they can give this indication. Maybe it has been abandoned and if it has as true loyal shareholders we should keep this completely quiet. The same poster who has proven to be wrong about the market cap about Stilo each and every year still believes that Stilo is going to have a £25 million market cap any day soon. Unfortunately he has been wrong every single year. Year after year after year after year. Proven time after time!
I agree with you Jesus! I belong to a church that insists on educating those around me. Maybe you would like to give you opinion and make worthwhile contributions too.
Well put Breton59. I am a long term investor,having first bought into Stilo in 2009 when the price was sub 2.00pence,with my best purchase being at exactly i,00 pence when the SP reacted badly,yet mistakenly, to an RNS. Since then I have followed the Company closely and seen its business plan evolve. As far as I am aware the BOD are exceptionally positive about future prospects.I understand that Migrate will have doubled its 2014 revenues when the preliminaries are released whilst the AuthorBridge software is has now been launched.Significant effort is also being directed at Omnimark in order that the decline in its revenues might be reversed. Record profits are on the cards for 2015 and these could be surpassed in the current trading year. With cash in the bank,a dividend,IBM (and many other global corporates) as clients,together with Stilo's world leading software,what more could investors wish for? Well a £25million market cap would do for starters,I suppose !