Thursday 10 October 2024

Contract extension with "Sainbury's"

 That's a welcome Friday RNS from Trakm8 with a 2 year contract extension with "Sainbury's". 😀 

"This contract extension, for two years to 31 December 2026, is for the Sainsbury's Goods Online ("GOL") delivery solution. This is built on the Trakm8 Insight AI Optimisation platform algorithms supplied via API."

Trakm8 have been in the doldrums for sometime now but boast a host of prestigious clients. Are they turning things around this year? The last trading update states that revenues and profits will be better than recent years. Let's hope so! Market cap. is tiny so improved results should materially affect the share price very positively at the current depressed levels and cheer up depressed share holders 😭😂.

Tuesday 8 October 2024

A micro-cap share price shit show 2023-2024

Ok this past year has been a total shit show for the share prices of my micro-cap hopefuls. Probably serves me right for predicting 10 baggers in 5 years 😭😂.

You can look the share prices up yourselves and have a good laugh or alternatively have another look at the companies I've mentioned and consider their future prospects.

Btw I'm changing the nature of this blog to make it shorter and more snappy with more frequent posts.

Here's a fact to conjure with. Ashtead's share price once dropped to circa 1.5p some years ago. Share price today is £57.24. It's stuck with me that one since I bought shares at around 30p, saw them drop to 1.5p, bought more when they recovered to 15p and then sold for a tiny profit or around break-even 😭😂. FFS. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. 

Talking of spectacular recoveries, is SRT going to be a multi-multi bagger? The long awaited systems contracts are beginning to roll in. Yesterday's contract announcement alone has a value of $212m. Can they now execute? If they can then the latent potential of this small British company is truly huge. Again note the share price volatility. It was only a week or two ago that it fell to the low teens and now stands at 45.5p. 

Had a initial sinking feeling this evening when I saw Ixico(IXI) had issued an after hours RNS. Couldn't believe my eyes though when it was a £4m raise at a premium to the current share price. Absolutely unheard of in these current markets, particularly for a tiddler. The rhetoric sounds impressive. £15m order book, trading ahead of expectations, targeting £10m revenues short term and £20m medium term. Big profits if they hit those figures since they only need circa £8m to break-even. Compare and contrast to the twats at Biome(BIOM) and their hugely dilutive raise for just £1m.

Under the radar is one I've not mentioned for sometime which is SpaceandPeople (SAL). Growing nicely. Gut feeling is that 2024 will see a beat of expectations. Investor Meet The Company presentation was illuminating.

That's it for now.


Friday 29 September 2023

5 Micro-caps that will 10-bag or more in 5 years or less - September 2023 update

Firstly, here's the link to last year's comments:-

The mouse "shares" his thoughts: 5 Micro-caps that will 10-bag or more in 5 years or less - September 2022 update (michae1mouse.blogspot.com)

Ok it's the end of the third year. Below is a very brief update on the five companies in question. Needless to say in the current environment  the share prices of all the companies in question have not faired particularly well, although it's more of a mixed bag in terms of yearly performance. I'm really not concerned with the prospects of any of these 5 companies going forward. If anything they're much better placed than 3 years ago when I first mentioned them. With the long term in mind, prospects look promising. Anyway here goes:-

1) IXICO current share price 19p (down 72.5%)

Judging by the collapsing share price over the past three years, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Ixico was ready for the knackers yard. It's down 72.5% over three years and 51% in the past year. However, they issued a trading update today which says that

FY23 earnings performance is anticipated to be in line or slightly ahead of market expectations despite a small shortfall in revenues caused by delays in the timing of new client trial initiations."

Whilst performance in 2024 will be similar to this year, they expect to see double digit growth return in 2025 and beyond. My comments from last year still apply here, and whilst the wait for the more lucrative phase 2 and phase 3 trials has been longer than anticipated, if/when these awards materialise then the step change in revs and profitability will be very significant. The current market cap. is around £9m but they have cash of over £4m and no debt. Cash burn for 2023 was circa £1m which should reduce this year. There may even be news of significant contracts during 2024 which will benefit 2025 and beyond. Their current order book is healthy at £14.5m.

2) CRIMSON TIDE current share price 1.9p (down 44%)

Current share price is about the same as last year albeit slightly up. Their interim report was published this week. Revs were up 31%, ARR was up 35%, gross margins are 84% and they moved back to a small EBITDA profit. Revs are expected to be 20% ahead at the year end. They're expanding in the US. They've encountered a couple of minor blips this year (imo) but growth remains strong and the future still looks very encouraging. As mentioned last year, moving forward additional revs should pretty much start to drop straight to the bottom line.

3) BIOME TECHNOLOGIES current share price 150p (down 36%)

Stellar 3 fold recovery in the share price from last year's 52.5p. Biome's interims were released this week and are in line with expectations. Both the Bioplastics and RF divisions are making good progress. Bioplastics revs were up 50% at £3.1m with RF up to £0.5m (£0.4m last year). The outlook for both divisions suggests excellent growth prospects. Even after the outperformance of the share price in the past 12 months the market cap. stands at around £5.5m. Not exactly expensive. Indeed it has the potential to really multibag with a medium to long term horizon (imo).

4) SRT Marine Systems current share price 48p (up 13%)

Best performer over 3 years and up 66% since last year. My only comment on this one is that the huge systems contracts are now landing and that the transceivers business is showing excellent growth. Rapid growth has it's own challenges but this company has a wide moat and over time I'm optimistic that they'll steer this company towards very large revs and profits.

5) TRAKM8 current share price 15.5p (down 17%)

Down 14% from last year and priced to fail. Ironically it's better placed than it's been for some years. Trakm8 is currently on target to meet adj. profit expectations of circa £2m. Clearly the market doesn't believe them, valuing the company at less than £8m. Even if the company achieves, let's say £1m adj profit for the full year, it's still cheap (imo). 

That completes the round-up for this year. Stay healthy, happy and enjoy your investing.