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This company has recently announced a string of contracts, and at the end of last month, it disclosed that it had wrested the framework clearing contract for Cable & Wireless from the present incumbent. It did not disclose the financial details, but the contract covers more than 20 C&W subsidiaries around the world, and more than 1,000 roaming partners. It also won the contract to supply clearing services to the Russian telecoms operator LLC Ekatereinburg 2000 (Motiv), with more than 1 million subscribers. The week before that, it won a contract extension with Australia telecoms operator, Telstra. And a few days before that, it announced contracts with Malaysia 's DiGi Telecoms and Italy 's Elsacom. So clearly, we have a company that's made a full-on recovery. The shares are inexpensive and the prospects are excellent
Telematics it would seem is coming of age, and those companies that have spent years developing and perfecting their technologies are finally reaping the benefits of, what some consider will be, a huge market. The business consultants McKinsey estimate that the global telematics market could be worth between £9b and £65b by 2010. However, McKinsey pointed out that the exact size depends on how the three sub-markets, which comprise the front seat, the car and the back seat, evolve over the next seven years. It is quite conceivable that eventually telematics will not only provide traffic and routing information for drivers but also diagnostics on the car's performance plus in-car entertainment for back seat passengers too. Clearly those businesses that have a head start on potential new entrants will have first mover advantage into this untapped market. That could augur well for the likes of Trafficmaster, ITIS and Yeoman. Other UK players include Eagle Eye Telematics (LSE: EIT), Minorplanet Systems (LSE: MPS), Transcomm (LSE: TRC) and Toad (LSE: TOA).
I mean 4.00 not £4
Sure hope so
Libra Natural Resources is a strategic investment company. It generally takes a passive approach operationally, but an active stance with respect to value creation. In order to manage its risks, it focuses upon companies where the technologies are well-tested, and sustainable sources of raw material and customers provide a good probability of generating cashflow in the short term. It additionally avoids deals in which the investment case is tax driven, i.e. predicated largely (or entirely) upon government incentives provided to encourage development of environmentally friendly fuels. Although these are seen as potentially valuable and useful supplements to the revenue model, a change of regime or legislation can make them an unreliable premise for investment.
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC 30 October 2006 RNS release 30 October 2006 KTS offers MiFID solutions for financial securities firms KTS PLC (AIM: KTS), providers of market information services in the finance sector, is today announcing a number of new MiFID solutions. These additional services will be fully integrated with KTS' real-time market data display service, MarketTerminal. The new solutions will assist investment firms, asset managers and stock brokers to comply with MiFID, the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive when it is introduced on 1 November 2007. The purpose of MiFID is to create transparency throughout the European Union for traders dealing in all securities. It is hoped MiFID will lead to greater competition in financial markets. However, MiFID imposes a number of compliance issues on financial firms. Some of these are expected to require significant investment by market participants, particularly in the areas of information technology, data access and storage. KTS is initially addressing MiFID requirements in three major areas which are currently already well defined: pre-trade transparency, post-trade analysis and compliance reporting. Additional functionality is now offered on KTS MarketTerminal, the company's proven financial information application currently used by 130 client organisations throughout the UK, to assist financial firms address MiFID. First, KTS is adding to Marke
Going up. Those of us who bought these shares a few weeks ago, it has doubled. The question is will it drop like a ton
Thanks. Bite the bullet on friday and went for it, as a long buy.
Any thoughts?
Anyone know why this is moving up today, is there something happening that we dont know
You are not teh only one. As they were so cheap, I bought a very small amount. Probably lose it all.
This is expected to go up to 280. Anyone has any ideas
This is expected to go up to 280