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Let's look at the SP performance shall we. If you were to believe Stilo 'sunshine' loser you'd think the SP performance has been consistently dire. But no, Over a 10 year timeframe long term investors here have done pretty well to very well. Between, for example, 2006 and 2008, the SP varied between 1.25p and 3p. The SP is now 5.37p. This would've produced a return of between 56% and 325% for anyone invested since that time. So it's rubbish to say this company has not produced good returns for shareholders over the long term. That's ultimately what it's about for investors in penny shares, capital gains, and that is not a bad performance at all compared to much of the crap on AIM. I look forward to further solid improving share price performance over the coming years and if this produces the returns going forward it has in the past it will be a good investment.
Lets hope that they have made some sufficiently significant progress in turns of hard financial results rather than the normal "the market that we are in is growing at a substantial rate dot com scenario" that they have been pushing out for many years whilst dwindling revenues down to "supermarket/convenience store type revenues that small little family run businesses are accustomed to". In fact, a friend of mine owns a supermarket and he generates £3 million plus revenues on a yearly basis with huge profits and he is not in a niche and not a small technology company with world leading customers. He isn't even a listed company. I don;t need any attention from the likes of you sunshine and just to let you know, just to let you know, my average is currently 3 pence with Stilo. Ha! Ha! Ha! I am not going to go your route of throwing personal insults as I am not that way inclined. The facts for Stilo speaks louder than words but I would like to take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your undivided, 100%, ongoing and loyal attention for which I am most delighted and grateful to. Now getting away from the personal insults sunshine my hope is that our company can deliver some meaningful results nothing like what they have delivered for the past 15 years. I expect them to start delivering now as it's about time they did. Nothing wrong with voicing opinions that reflect disappointment with a company that has done so little for so long. Nothing wrong with expecting a lot, lot, lot more from a niche player, a listed company with world leading customers than the paltry £1.2 million that it last reported. Nothing wrong with demanding a lot more. A lot, lot more.
Oh I forgot to tell you that there is a serial poster on this board who has a rather unhealthily massive issue with this company. The assumption, reasonable enough, is that he has lost a heap of money here and this is his only route available now to try and trash the company. Strange because he may still be a holder but he is a bitter holder if so with a very large average. So large its not worth selling I suspect. If you stick around you'll hear a lot more from this fruitcake. He repeats the same stuff time and again. Myself and lukehere are the only two that give him any attention.
Then check out all of Stilo's 15 years financial results and see how it has failed around 99.9% of investors by failing to keep most of its promises. They are now starting to make such small profits and revenues are so small that its hard to believe that this is a world leading company in its field with listed statues.
Yes STL has been profitable for the past 5 years at least. Check out the STL Fundamentals tab above.
Are they making a profit? Thanks.
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Just back from the therapist appointment and the news is still the same. She just went on about the normal and disappointing news about stilo. Her summary was thus: Fallen from grace from around 150 pence to the current levels of 5 pence. Disappointed the market for many, many, many, many, many years. Will continue with a very slow progress from its dreadful low revenues of £1.2 to £1.5 million yearly. Will never be a yield stock, only paying minute dividends. Has always held webinars and conferences but has always continued to fall in price. Has always developed and sold world leading products to world leading companies ever since formation but this has not affected the bottom line. The more exclusive products that they have developed the lower their revenues have gone year on year. Relationships with the likes of IBM over the last 15 years have done nothing for the company's finances. IBM tested then used Migrate on a incredibly small, minute basis that it only served as a reference deal really. Only has around 16 workers with limited resources so hitting the world with its products on a huge scale is highly unlikely. Their world leading product Migrate has been about for around 9 to 10 years but only raises around £600,000 yearly. All other revenues have fallen or been discontinued. The company's year end results have always been optimistic yet unrealistic for many years. 15 years continuous etc, etc,etc. Management in their year end results have always made promises that they have broken. The market has been waiting for so, so, so many years for this world leading company to provide the goodies but it hasn't. Management hasn't given many hoots to date. For a world leading company, a listed company, revenues should be around the £10 to £20 million mark not £1 million mark. Company will continue to make the normal promises but making for the last 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 plus years. IBM may, just maybe, just maybe, maybe, maybe use Author Bride slightly, slightly more than they did Migrate and spend a couple of pounds more on it. Nobody should question the current and historic financial record about Stilo and anybody who does should be herewith dismissed. Everybody should buy into the Stilo story as they have a proven broken record. Management will continue to issue more shares in order to fill their boots and all share holders just have to lump it. At this stage my session with the therapist came to an end and I have been asked to book myself back in for another session.
LOL !!
Don't forget to call the therapist. I'm not sure if they can treat post traumatic share loss disorder but its worth a try.
The share price fell from 150 pence plus to around 1 pence during the last 15 years and during the last 15 years it has gone up to its current multi year high of a dismal 5 pence. This just proves how the market perceives Stilo. It has disappointed the market for numerous years and that is the precise reason why the market has kept the share price at its current levels because of Stilo's abysmal £1.2 to £1.5 million revenues. The share price will only and can only move up when Stilo has worthwhile revenue growth which it has not has year on year for multiple amount of years. Clear fact and not fiction and not plucked out of the air
Your still talking rubbish pal. Course I forgot I share all my personal information and financial details with you don't I. You have access to all my personal financial records so you know all about my broken record and all the problems that I have encountered don't you pal? You would rather I just nod in agreement with everything that has been said about Stilo and just accept it as fact don't you? Personally, I don't give a hoot about all your hooting do I pal....or is it 2 hoots that you are going on about? Stilo has a long, long way to go before it is accepted into the mainstream marketplace within its sector. £12. to £1.5 million of revenues at current and historic records speaks louder than words from a financial expert like yourself don't it?
Dibs61 Well said again Dibs61--and much needed too. The guy is a total pest on my ADVFN (mudbath) thread as well. Possibly you might like to repeat your post over there also. It would provide a little balance !
Well said Dibs61. That input from IBM has proven invaluable to Stilo International as they prepared AuthorBridge for wider release.Their patience was also notable as the Beta testing over ran its initially envisaged time frame. April 4th should prove a red letter day,as it is some accolade for the STILO minnow to be invited to co present with the IBM behemoth at CMS/DITA North America 2016. StiloLosses. The fact that STL shares, fell from £1.30 to just 2 pence 15 years ago is of no consequence,apart that is from your own painful involvement.. Move on and enjoy the current ride would be my maxim.
You know what you have a real problem. A broken record. Your username says it all. A big time loser who is sore. The only one that's 'hurting' 'pal' is you. I'm doing just dandy here. A small profit currently with an average of 5p. I couldn't give two hoots about your broken record repetitive durge here. I couldn't give two hoots about the past because it's gone though clearly not for you. I'm focused on the future not the past. I strongly suggest you seek therapy, seriously.
Your talking rubbish. Like I said around £400,000 over the last 15 years or so. No banging around numbers and no need to be a rocket scientist Mr Professor. Stilo can have all the best products in the world but until they do not generate revenue growth on a substantial scale they will continue generating £1.2 to £1.5 million in revenues and around £100 to £200k profits. Year after year, multiple years of flat revenues and profits. No banging around numbers. Plain facts as published by Stilo management themselves. I suggest you get Stilo's financial results for the last 15 years and read through them and make yourself conversant with all the broken promises of the last 15 years. Plain and simple to follow facts of 15 years. Spectacular world leading products launched during this time, spoken highly of by management but all came and went without making an ounce of difference on profits and revenues. No beating around with anything. No plucking anything out of thin air. Not even the dire financial results produced year after year, multiple amount of years after multiple amount of years years by Stilo International for the last 15 years have been plucked out of the air. Complete, sincere, accurate facts!! The truth hurts pal!!!!!!!!!
So you were guessing then. Just banding around numbers as though they are fact. And don't ask me for numbers you were the one who proclaimed a number out of thin air. Do you have ANY idea how much an IBM analyst/consultant/technician or PM's time costs? Clearly not.
I won't say that IBM has invested heavily in Migrate and Author Bridge but they have certainly invested a reasonable amount of money over so many years. There spend with Migrate was very disappointing and they only ever used it on a very, very limited basis. The hope and anticipation was that they would spend a huge amount with Stilo but after the product was developed and subsequently used by IBM the overall usage and financial spend was so small that it had no meaningful effect on Stilo's overall revenues. The hope and anticipation is that both IBM and the overall Dita market will now at long last start using Stilo's products because the wait has been long indeed. The hope is that IBM will use Author Bridge and contribute towards revenues unlike they did with Migrate where their overall spend was annoyingly more or less non existent or incredibly minuscule to say the least. I have no doubt that the 2015 numbers from Stilo will show good progress but they will clearly demonstrate how slow the progress has again been in 2015. Progress, absolutely, but frustratingly very slow and long winded from on incredibly low basis for a world leading company who is in a niche with world leading products.
IBM have invested heavily across both StiloMigrate and AuthorBridge in recent years,providing much specialist input, particularly over the past 12 months whilst they were Beta testing AB. No one can be sure how the collaboration will develop/flourish as we move forward. Undoubtedly though Stilo has software that is hugely relevant to hot DITA arena which could well remain ahead of the curve. Stilo has been ahead of that DITA curve for the past eight years to such an extent that (according to the CEO)the market place was not ready to appreciate functionality;hence the subdued revenues. This is all in the process of changing as Stilo will shortly report.. Interestingly Adobe's series of Webinars on DITA,scheduled for next month relate to topics already covered by Stilo's own webinars,some dating back to 2014,for example :- http://www.stilo.com/article-dita-minimalism/ I,for one,am very excited about the benefits of being well invested in this intriguing micro cap.
So what kind of spend do you think IBM has made to Stilo.... £500,000 a year, £750,000 a year, £1,000,000 a year? £400k is a very fair figure for IBMs spend with Stilo over the many years that they have been working together. It is a well known fact that IBM has never spent much money with Stilo over the 15 years that they have worked together. We are talking of a company that only generates around £1.2 million to £1.5 million from all the customers that they have and out of this 50% is from Omnimark licence fees which leaves around £600 to £750k which comes from all there other sources of income including Migrate. You don't have to be a professor or rocket scientist to work that one out.
Where do you get the £400k figure from? It would amount to roughly £26k avg pa which a company the size of IBM simply wouldn't bother with. And in any case I am doubtful that number would be available to investors.
IBM and Stilo has been working together on various products and projects going far back as 15 years and this relationship has only ever generated very small amounts of revenues during this time. It is a very good relationship in terms of prestige but in terms of money IBM has probably spent about £400,000 with Stilo during this time, amounting to around £30,000 per year on average.
WIth the aforesaid Mike Iantosca http://www.stilo.com/5055-2/