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A little bit of background on the guy at IBM who has been working with Stilo: Mike Iantosca is the corporate product development team (PDT) lead for IBM Information Development (ID) Tools. A founding member of the team that ushered in the era of SGML and XML/DITA in IBM ID, Mr. Iantosca has served multiple roles including systems analyst, architect, senior advisor, project, and product manager since 1992. Mr. Iantosca led the worldwide conversion of millions of pages of IBM product documentation to structured formats and has served numerous roles in his 28 year career at IBM including writer, instructor, developer, tester, and evangelist of structured document solutions.
I hope you are right Lukehere as people have been saying the "same old" about Stilo's share price for about 15 years now. I think all us shareholders would love to see a spectacular rise in Stilo's share price, especially as it has come down to its current 5 pence levels from around 150 pence in the last 15 years or so. This is well, well overdue and in all fairness I think we will only believe this once it happens because people have made statements like this for so, so long and we have all grown old listening to such bold statements over the last decade and half. Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with one being optimistic and hopeful and I along with all other shareholders hope that you are right on this one this time round.
With Brewin Dolphin apparently no longer supplying the market,the MMs in STL shares are adopting a very cautious stance,today widening what was already a not inconsiderable spread. Should the forthcoming results stimulate investment demand then we could well see a significant upward surge in the SP.
Nice to see a trickle of buys in here today even if it wasn't enough to budge the price.
Lukhere believe me don;t know how you can relate me to articles going back to 2002 as I was not even investing back then. Over the last 3 or 4 years or so I have been negative on Stilo and I had every reason to be. I don;t know what part of " I am currently positive on Stilo " that you don;t understand Lukehere, I, just for your record, can say again that this is a good little company doing well and will continue to make good, solid progress going forward at a nice slow rate, Lukehere, Stilo is a good company and it is making and will make good, slow progress.
Whatever the facts of the matter might be SL,the quote reflects your attitude in 2002 which remains little changed today. This quote has your avatar attached. "I lost some serious money on this share many years ago. Does not surprise me if this company does not increase revenues as it has not done so for about 15 years or something. Can't remember exactly how many years but its around 15. I struggle to understand why anybody would want to buy into this company. I mean, if it was increasing revenues nicely, it's not and has not done so for 15 years or something like that; if it was making good profits, it's not and has not done so for about 15 years or something like that......Just for these reasons alone I do not see why anybody would want to buy into this company. This company was talking about all sorts of things but they have never materialised. This company is like the National Lottery. That's why when I made some serious losses on this many years ago I got out. I would recommend that you have a go on the National Lottery rather than get stuck into this company. You are guaranteed to make lovely StiloLosses if you were to invest in this one. My advise: Keep away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " As I said,move on.
Lukehere you also need to get you facts right. The below quote that you quoted had absolutely nothing to do with me. I was never using any form of message boards in 2002 and I didn't even have an interest in Stilo in 2002. Back then I was not even investing so how you can come up with that message just beggars belief. Sounds like desperate tactics by a desperate man to me. Interesting to see that even back then, though, you had people making such comments. These were your concerns in 2002, "This rubbish company was touted at one of most important company by techinvest year ago urging investors to pile in at 100P.Sucked in at 130P to see investment go down the toilet drain in a year and hit with huge loss.Now they are worth 3.5 p and holding 5K shares not worth the toiler paper surely a liquidation candidate in near future once the paltry cash will burn out.The ******* CEO only farting against the wind."
Lekehere as we all know there is always two sides to a story and I too do not doubt the ability of Stilo going forward but as we all know investment organisation always either get it right or get it wrong. That is the nature of the business that they are in. For every 10 recommendations made by Techinvest they get 5 wrong. Nevertheless, even with Stilo management getting it horribly wrong for many years I agree that things look a lot, lot better now but like I have always said: "It is going to take time for this to come through and this process started many years ago. We will see progress for 2015 year end and for the current timescale but this progress is going to be good and slow. Absolutely nothing is going to happen suddenly and I can more or less be certain of that unless, of course, Stilo is able to achieve some incredible and spectacular feat out of the blue. We all know that is not going to happen". I think it is wrong for you to call this a rubbish company, especially as you are a massive investor. For me this is a OK company making OK progress and going forward it is going to do nothing more than being and good little OK company unless management can prove otherwise. As we all know they have never ever been able to prove anything spectacular and they will continue to making this a good little OK company unless they are able to do something completely out of the blue and spectacular.
Stilo Losses. Why dont you move out of the past and into the glorious future. Have you considered that Stilo is not all about current revenues. For the company to have honed its software whilst building cash and more importantly the share price,whilst paying an increasing dividend surely sets it above 99% of AIM micro caps. These were your concerns in 2002, "This rubbish company was touted at one of most important company by techinvest year ago urging investors to pile in at 100P.Sucked in at 130P to see investment go down the toilet drain in a year and hit with huge loss.Now they are worth 3.5 p and holding 5K shares not worth the toiler paper surely a liquidation candidate in near future once the paltry cash will burn out.The ******* CEO only farting against the wind." That was 14 years ago.Time to move on .
Specifically referring to the statement below that management during their 2007 year end results I don't think that even Stilo management thought in their wildest dreams that come some 10 years later Migrate would only be raising about £600k a year with overall revenues going down from around £2.7 million to £1.2 million for a listed company. This is the statement: Stilo Migrate is set to revolutionise the market for content migration services, massively simplify the content conversion process, and significantly reduce associated project timescales and costs. Accessible 24x7 from anywhere in the world, it will enable users to upload source documents over the internet and migrate content to target XML formats, on a pay-as-you-use basis.
Incidentally, below is the statement that Stilo management made back in 2007 about Stilo Migrate in their year end results. Though the company had huge, massive expectations for Migrate when they first started speaking about it in 2006, some 10 years ago, we have all seen how it has completely failed to live up to expectations and it is only now, some 10 years later, it is only raising about £600k. Not to mention how revenues during this time has fallen to £1.2 million for a listed company. Anyway, though it has taken some 10 years for Migrate to start generating any decent revenues the anticipation is that it will grow from here. This is what Stilo managment said about Migrate: On-Demand Content Migration Services During 2007 we began the development of Stilo Migrate, the world's first on-demand content migration service. It is the embodiment of Stilo's extensive content engineering expertise and advanced content processing technology, and is reflective of the general market adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS). Scheduled to launch in 2008, Stilo Migrate is set to revolutionise the market for content migration services, massively simplify the content conversion process, and significantly reduce associated project timescales and costs. Accessible 24x7 from anywhere in the world, it will enable users to upload source documents over the internet and migrate content to target XML formats, on a pay-as-you-use basis. Stilo is very encouraged at the potential market opportunity and the initial interest shown by leading companies, as XML becomes increasingly adopted by organisations around the world for single-source publishing applications. Having consolidated operations in Europe, we have invested significantly in the development of Stilo Migrate, the world's first on-demand content migration service, due to be released in 2008. We have received considerable early interest in Migrate, and have already won an initial order from a major high-tech customer prior to its general release. With a strong opening order book for professional services in North America, the impending launch of a new, jointly developed solution for the Aviation industry, and the release of OmniMark v9 later in 2008, we look forward to the future with confidence.
This is part of the Stilo management statement for 2007 year end results: Stilo Migrate is set to revolutionise the market for content migration services, massively simplify the content conversion process, and significantly reduce associated project timescales and costs. Accessible 24x7 from anywhere in the world, it will enable users to upload source documents over the internet and migrate content to target XML formats, on a pay-as-you-use basis. The revenues for the last 5 years have been as such: 2010: £2.38 million 2011 £1.74 million 2012 £1.41 million 2013 £1.50 million 2014 £1.26 million I have been a critic of management at Stilo for some time and one of the reasons for this is evident in these figures. For a listed company that has been trading for 15 years or so, especially after claiming that Migrate was going to "revolutionise the market", (Stilo management's words 2007 and not mine)it shows how some 9, 10 years later this clearly has not been the case. I expected a lot more from these guys but hopefully the numbers that they will report shortly for 2015 and going forward will rectify many years of low, low revenues and profits. One has to bear in mind that Migrate was not just any old willy nilly product and management at the time of launching this product all those years ago expected it to generate huge revenues and not just the £600k annually. Management clearly thought that the product was going to revolutionise the market but it has taken many years of trying and to date there has been very, very little evidence of this. Admittedly, they are now starting to generate some revenues from Migrate going forward. It is going to take time for them to build on this during the next couple of years or so. AB will help of course. In closing, the revenues above clearly demonstrates how awfully difficult it has been for management to generate revenues for many years from a product that they said back then was going to "revolutionise the market".
Yep it will be good to head into the results from a position of SP strength. If we get to the results @ 6p or above then I think we can be sure they will be good. A finish to the BD selling would also help considerably. I share your optimism about the coming announcement and prospects for the remainder of the year.
The MMs have now raised their bid for STL shares on five consecutive occasions over recent days,with their latest attempt to acquire stock pitched at 5.10 pence. So far they have met with little success.
The Stilo International prelims should be announced over coming weeks. How powerful they prove to be might be suggested earlier by relative strength in the share price. There is certainly a lot to look forward to. It may just be that we investors are provided with some early indication of Stilo's next generation proprietary software. For me it is hard to be anything but hugely optimistic over future prospects for this gem of a micro cap.
Dibs61.Thanks for your posting. I feel that Bruno Jactel could be an absolute diamond; almost as important to TYR's success as the product. We shall see,although I do feel this could be THE BIG ONE !
Apologies I was aware you were referring to Tyratech but I was just mentioning another company, Metal Tiger, whom share the same nomad and broker as STL. And I didn't meant to ignore or pass by your mention of TYRU which is certainly an interesting company with an interesting product offering. I went to the Investors Forum the other day and saw the CEO give a presentation which was both informative and quite entertaining! I made a note of the company and its now on my watch list.
Thanks for the acknowledgement and feedback. I found Bruno Jactel the TYRU CEO to be both eloquent and searingly honest in his recently published interviews. http://www.tyratech.com/news_and_media/#1454013152592-aa256573-3839 The USA connection is dynamic for this is a US company with an AIM listing. To go from Zero sales to being the second largest USA selling anti nit shampoo in less than 2 years is little short of a miracle. They have huge plans to expand its global reach and to address immense animal husbandry sectorwith similar vigour.
Tyratech is a good company to share with us. I'm not certain how much I understand as this is outside my comfort zone but the future may be in this type of product. The American connection needs some research but thanks for the interest. I recently sold up in Christie Group, one day later the share price climbed 9p!.Still, that's the luck of the draw but I got away with a very small profit. Have' topped u'p in Stilo, Inspired Energy and Toumaz plus Lloyds. Now what to do with the money from Christie??????.
I am not sure where Metal tiger came from,for I was referring to TYRATECH ! TYRU is a £10 million company with patented technology to combat/eradicate head lice/parasites and fly larvae etc across the human and animal spectrums based on a natural oil base. All majors(WallMart, Wallgreen,Tesco Boots etc are stocking it (Vamoose for nits) and reporting tremendous customer/retailer satisfaction;so much so that it has just become the second fastest selling formulation in the USA.No mean feat fro ZERO sales pre 2014.Top BOD as well + no debt etc. I have not been so excited about unearthing a total gem in a long time. Any feed back welcomed.
Thats a sound decision IMO. Sometimes you have to change your mind in investing depending on events. That was the WORST possible financing outcome for IMM PI's for the foreseeable future. The IMM BOD don't care. They've got the capital they require and continue to draw their handsome salaries. It will be the small investors who will suffer with substandard SP performance. There are IMM PI's who continue to 'believe'. 'Believing requires faith, emotion. Thats fatal in investing. Anyway enough of IMM speaking of the new brokers/nomads, yes I also noticed that MTR have the Spark/SI combination. Different sector, resources, but interesting nonetheless. I would be fascinated to know what determined their decision to change.
Hi Dibbs. I too exited IMM yesterday for they are now a hostage to fortune. With STL going to SPARK I reviewed their other AIM clients. TYRU jumped off the page! The company benefits from a couple of good posters over on ADVFN. I'm in. Sorry for the O/T folks.
Cheers Dibs61 ! Interesting times for this micro-cap. Bakunin,posting on ADVFN,feels that if STL can engage with IBM at enterprise level, via AuthorBridge,then shareholders might reap very significant rewards,I believe he has spent his career in software development including with IBM. Another few weighty buys would convince me that good news is in the offing.
Raised again. Good posts lukehere. Holding firm.
SwiftKey has been acquired by Microsoft, the company has confirmed,in a deal worth $250m (£174m) This just shows how a useful piece of software can command a high valuation. Imo Stilo International software could hold far more significance than that of predictive keyboard.