RE: Meet management30 Sep 2016 09:16
IMOH it was a bit of a dry presentation, recapping the biz model, history etc. but all sounds on track including the INVE integration so that's all right then ! Malcolm Pye just back from China where he has been working on "huge opportunities", and the world seems awash with opportunity for the new, integrated product set. All great, but let's get it captured and monetised then....
Spanking new, super high-tech UK facilities now being commissioned which are "best in Europe if not the world" and several other "world-leading" claims made - I take this as pretty genuine as Malcy Pye is nothing if not a modest, professional and honest chap - so that's all really good then !
Long discussion on the product pipeline worth £750m (incl all stages pre-POC to Sales) which is never taken into account by any analyst / report and that BMK are still seen as "too complicated" to put value on. Only £32m of this pipeline is at the Sales Achieved end, which is what tends to drive valuations.They commit to working on this with analyst community.
Hard Q's raised about share price performance which were not really answered well - "obviously we're all disappointed" and a bit of muted muttering about being "less complicated than Apple and look at their SP" and believing that this biz could/should be able to 10-fold in the future. If something magical comes out of the pipeline then I buy this story too - but it's all a big "if" isn't it.
It is year-end today, and they hope to get out a statement in early Nov before full results in Jan 17. No indication of any other newsflow ahead of that so I guess it's sit and wait time again......
Overall I remain a believer, but do think they have a huge amount to do in terms of investor relations, to PIs and to analysts. But let's hope the numbers do the talking in the coming months. This is really very much one for a 10 year horizon in my view and if it is accepted that food chain issues will continue to grow then they seem to be one of, if not the best placed bio-tech units set to capitalise on that.