RE: STMicro9 Jun 2024 10:30
In my opinion they didn't give guidance regarding the upper or lower scale of the Samsung settlement. This frustrated a lot of people and I lost a load of money as a result, as did others. They were hugely criticised for this in investor persentations, so know this is a problem (by the BOD).
Other than that, I think they've delivered on every milestone since, so I don't understand the constant criticism. I would have liked a special divident instead of tender offer, but they did exactly what they said they would and returned £32m odd to £40m to shareholders.
When BT joined, they set out their dots only strategy and delivered a win against Sumsung, safeguarding the future of the company. They're taking the steps they said they would, hiring in key areas, building a device demo capability, etc. They have a first product that was available for testing (from ST) just a couple of months ago. They say there will be further orders this year and expect to be cash positive in 2025. We don't know why the buyback has stalled, but they've committed to it and it will be completed.
We all want the SP to be higher, but with an enterprise value of around £10m plus cash, I've been adding (managed to get just under 17p last week). There could be lots of short term price catalysts including teh buy back, order announcements, new partnerships, new products with the Asian customer, more details and orders of the existing ST product, settlements/partnerships with other infringers, partnerships with other global display manufacturers.
It's been a long road, but the sensor product will offer far superior performance at a better price point than alternatives. It should be a no-brianer and should be the first of a number of generations of products to be mass adopted in everything that needs a fairly sophisticated sensor.
GLA and DYOR.