Share Prophets5 Sep 2016 19:20
This is the most recent article on Share Prophets by Steve Moore dated 18th August.
RedstoneConnect (REDS, formerly Coms) has announced an early lease exit, emphasising “not only does it remove the cash drain associated with this lease, it also allows us to focus entirely on our profitable RedstoneConnect business, unencumbered by legacy issues". The following updates, with the shares currently more than 8% higher, at 1.675p, in response. With the lease - over 20,761 square feet of surplus office space in Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire - not due to expire until September 2018 and, having already provided in its last accounts for 75% of the space through to the lease completion, the company notes this “a positive development... with the disposal of the company's Telephony Services division in May 2015, the disposal of the Media division in December 2015 and the exit of the Brentwood office lease in September 2015, the exit of the Stokenchurch office lease now completes the operational restructuring”. It emphasises that this thus now “enables RedstoneConnect to focus entirely on its core strategy of providing technology and services for smart buildings and commercial spaces”. This follows me having previously reviewed after results in May and, following their appointments last year, chatting to CEO Mark Braund and CFO Spencer Dredge. This saw me note that the relatively new management looked to have already achieved much and that though the valuation currently appeared rich, the growth potential looked exciting. As such, I said I’d continue to monitor here and now look forward to further performance detail in results for the company’s half year ended 31st July 2016. I’ll review again then, with this certainly currently remaining on the watchlist.