RE: New CEO interview14 Apr 2025 14:29
I can assure you my 600k shares will be voting against our chief clown. F@cker needs to drive more value for us. If that means selling some of the family silver then so be it. He has built a Frankenstein and if we can offload DIS or Comparison for good multiples they should jump at it. I'd personally like them to keep Comparison given the fast growth profile, and double down on Search. A DIS sale for anything better than 7.5x Ebitda should be accepted. This will put us straight back through £1 and from there they can start a kore focused re-build. Not rocket science to get us back to a semi decent value. At the moment a bid of £1 with the big boys having the option to maintain their ownership would probably be enough for long suffering shareholders to exit. I'd rather we bin off DIS and be sitting on the same sp value with a far greater probability of going higher. Take the circa $165m (8x EBITDA), kill off debt, commit to 10% BB for 2025, and invest for future growth in our remaining segments. We'd have 225m shares, $70m cash, and circa $45m EBITDA this year with double digit growth profile moving forward. At 2025YE you'd have an EV:EBITDA of 5 @ £1 per share. This feels about right, but with a $70m cash pile and promise of double digit EBITDA growth in 2026 I think we could get closer to 6x, or £1.15. Any money back from Shinez and add at least 10p. Mgt need to pull their heads out of their @sses. Sell DIS, focus on Search and Comparison, and fix Shinez i.e. get back a lump of cash.