RE: Blinking heck10 Jun 2025 07:41
I used to work for Filtronic way back when, in the late 90's.
At the time I was there we predominantly made military use equipment, but mobile phones were just taking off and Filtronic were in the right place at the right time with the right product.
They spun off Filtronic Contek to make parts for the mobile base stations, and because the entire infrastructure needed to be built they got a lot of orders.
This also coincided with the dot com boom, and the shares went from around £1 to something nuts like £24 before dropping all the way back again.
I have a gut feeling (and it's just a feeling) that history is repeating, to a degree.
They're in the right place at the right time with the right product for satellite comms this time, which is a rapidly growing market, and rather than the dot com boom being the catalyst it's Elon Musks name being attached to it.
I'm not saying they'll go to £24 a share again, but I feel they'll go much higher than they are now, and probably far higher than their intrinsic value because once again big orders are fuelled by peoples imaginations - Elon Musk being involved.