RE: Friday RNS29 Nov 2023 16:26
From the Executive Chairman's Statement I see lots of positives, including:
* The Board believes that this capital investment should generate significant return on investment over the coming months and will ensure that we continue to deliver cutting edge solutions to our customers - the data centre stuff. I can only imagine what they must have been paying for hosting - although, I still worry about whether their's is a Tier 3 data centre or above. I also wonder if Maddie was using a lot of node time on the cloud which was expensive, so this allows for AI modelling.
* Fleet unit sales also decreased by 38% to 5,000 but with corresponding device revenues up 20% as more complex solutions continued to be delivered to new and existing customers
* Despite this, we believe that the point has come that growth in connections will now restart - addressing the reduction in connections (which doesn't seem a good metric to me anymore given that the routing stuff seems important)
* We are also expecting our Optimisation business to expand further into the home delivery space - one assumes this is a reference to the software contract - interesting, because I thought the Sainsbury's contract was just that. So my guess is this contract is an expansion of services from Sainsbury's (perhaps food delivery or Argos)
So blindly, I remain positive.