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If you want to make money on AIM You back winners!! Directors who have done it over & over again have a formula for repeated success. 99% of AIM failures are due to directors using Aim companies for lifestyle purposes. VIN MURRAI is a serial winner.
Certainly Greendave. Last company on AIM for Vin Murrai started at £32M and she sold it for £725M.
Just one name Vin Murrai
Built to last Murria has completed over 40 acquisitions since her days at Kewill. She knows how to attack a niche market and squeeze it for sales by accumulating underexploited, complementary businesses. It’s a formula for success that she’s repeating at Advanced Computer Software, where in two years she has overseen five acquisitions, including COA Solutions for £100 million from Alchemy Partners, and opened offices in Asia and North America. In between all of this, she managed to negotiate a new £55 million financing facility with two banks. The AIM-listed company, which provides software and IT services to public, private and third sector organisations, has gone from zero to close to £100 million in the space of two years. ‘I’m good at taking something that has sales of £2.5 million and making it a £500 million business,’ she comments. ‘I’m not good at going from a start-up to a few million pounds; that’s not me, but I do have a huge amount of respect for those who can do the start-up phase.’
Murria has shown that their faith was well founded. Over the past 25 years she has been closely involved with some of the UK’s most well-known IT companies, such as Kewill Systems, where she was chief operating officer, and Computer Software Group, where as CEO she took the company private, merged it with IRIS Software and then sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman in a deal worth £500 million – all in the space of four and a half years. Let the show begin ;-)))
Time machine LMAO !!!
And the market cap here is £2.5M Based on revenue alone & no debt this company should be valued @ between £20-£25million. Add Vin Murrai to this company then the sky is the limit especially when clients consists of some of the biggest companies in the world.
Murria has shown that their faith was well founded. Over the past 25 years she has been closely involved with some of the UK’s most well-known IT companies, such as Kewill Systems, where she was chief operating officer, and Computer Software Group, where as CEO she took the company private, merged it with IRIS Software and then sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman in a deal worth £500 million – all in the space of four and a half years.
That’s not to suggest that she isn’t thorough. ‘I don’t do high-risk, high-profile buy-outs. That’s not the market we’re in, and we find the businesses we want ourselves. I will go to an event or exhibition personally and speak to competitors about the company I want to acquire. I’ll take everything the owner of a company I want to buy has told me at face value until I’ve checked out what the competition says.’
Just a few; Cargill, Exxon Shell Price waterhouse cooper TD Bank Delta Airlines Exelon Sudexo GoodYear Aecom Chubb DOW Norvartis I think with a client base like this she has already found what she wants to do ;-)))))
This IMTK looks like the perfect fit for VM. Just what the doctor ordered!!
Murria likes to take a company that has fallen into the rut of a “lifestyle business” and revitalise it. ‘People get comfortable as their business gets to £3 million or £5 million turnover; they like their position in the community and are quite settled. The problem with this is that the founders and senior managers have never brought the next level of management through.’ So when taking over a company that may have become too settled in its ways, the answer tends to be to recognise the talent that already exists within the business. ‘We generally move the next level of managers up and then nurture the new lower levels, so you’re constantly building up the team,’ she says. Financially, Murria knows exactly what she is looking for in a company and how a deal should be structured. ‘We only buy businesses where there is 50 to 60 per cent recurring revenue and a further 30 to 40 per cent will be non-contracted but recurring because of selling into the user base. There will be long-term, loyal customers and the scope to take additional modules and functionality to them.’
Nomads won’t want to miss this opportunity so yes I guess they will all be lining up ;-))
The AIM-listed company, which provides software and IT services to public, private and third sector organisations, has gone from zero to close to £100 million in the space of two years. ‘I’m good at taking something that has sales of £2.5 million and making it a £500 million business,’ she comments.
ACP software floated at £32M market cap and sold for £725M. IMTK Market cap £2.5M
Back in 2012; Adv. Comp. Software (ASW) Software The Times This IT and software services firm could benefit as the NHS looks to cut costs and outsource. Chief executive Vin Murria has an excellent track record. It’s a speculative buy. 58p/36p* 52p COMPANY sold couple of years later for £750M 15 Bagged , yes that’s right. Looks like she wants to do it all again ;-)))
No I was referring to GT comments that MYSQ did reach £30M. I didn’t check before I posted and no I’m not related to anyone at MYSQ lol
Does anybody have TERN revenue? I see theirMarket cap is £60M and it was as high as £120M not so long ago.
Apologies I didn’t see the Market cap , it’s £10M I jus saw now.
MYSQ in Myanmar run by a military junta. IMTK, USA/UK based operations. IMTK revenue £3.7M & market cap £2M MYSQ revenue £1.2M & market cap £30M IMTK No brainer tbh