Sharemuppets30 Aug 2019 16:11
On revenue £0.48 million higher than the prior year, at £3.30 million, the profit was still though just £6k with the balance sheet showing cash of just £24k. Worse, a net current liabilities position was slightly increased - to £0.99 million - and net assets were slightly lower at £1.819 million and including £2.77 million of intangibles. Additionally, “the results include the beneficial profit impact of £117,000 resulting from the adoption of IFRS15… The impact of this is additional revenue of £317,000”!
The company seeks to emphasise its “focus is on providing a high-quality Managed Service offering wrapped around hardware and software delivery that generates ongoing contractual revenues from the customer base over several years and this is a major objective. This strategy has been effective over the last 24 months, in particular, which has enabled the group to create an annual recurring contractual revenue base of in excess of £700,000” and “believes the group has an opportunity to build on this maiden profit during the coming year”.
However, it’s admitted “the second half of the financial year… was markedly more difficult. This was due, in part, to the deterioration in macroeconomic trading conditions that has been evident since November 2018 as a consequence, initially, of uncertainty surrounding Brexit and then latterly, an overall slowdown in the sector as a whole”. I suggest this remains the case and that the company’s balance sheet makes it far from encouragingly placed to face such conditions. Still avoid / sell.