RE: How to read the latest RNS27 Nov 2016 13:38
Wigwarmmer, just in case you missed this read. Adammark identifies clearly his perception of the investment leaving people in no doubt: Just thought I'd cut and paste as you seem to think green shoots can prevent an sestemic fault with the IMTK business ideology.
Adammark Post:
"The company did around 15% of revenue from services - now off a much lower revenue number it is around 22%.
There were other much larger companies in the market for innovation services who had been operating at bigger scale. Strategos, a consulting firm with a tech solution, was on $22M in annual revenue, Doblin Group (later bought by Monitor) had around 10M and also built software. Both did a LOT more consulting that IMTK did then - and definitely more than what they did now.
The mgmt reports to the LSE stock holders is written for people who know nothing about the industry and really would look at this stock as a punt. Which might make sense if one believed FinnCap's eternal 5P target for the stock (renewed for the second year and they ignored the whole 'will break even in 2015... thing').
The company is too toxic to be bought (too much debt with 1.4M liabilities from the accounts, excessive management contracts that would need to be bought out), old technology, consultants (bah - high overhead, dead easy to find as contractors), etc. But with Cooper on 30%, and his attitude towards discussions being not entirely other-investor friendly, the company is the walking dead.
Now it might go up 1p... to double your money - but always look at the spread on AIM. With this stock you would need a 2X return to break even practically...
And if you track back over time they sold off a lot of stock at higher rates (raising 9M over the last 6 years - every time at around 25-50% less a price than the past round) so there a lot of people sitting on losses that would be crystallized as soon as it is worth selling (ok, likely never).
IMTK = zombie.......