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SDL Sdl Plc

660.00
0.00 (0.00%)
28 Mar 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Sdl Plc LSE:SDL London Ordinary Share GB0009376368 ORD 1P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 660.00 0.00 00:00:00
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
668.00 670.00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
  -
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
- O 0 660.00 GBX

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Posted at 02/7/2021 11:51 by tomps2
Stuart Widdowson mentions SDL at 17:05 in the latest PIWORLD interview

Watch the video here:

Or listen to the podcast here:
Posted at 10/11/2020 16:20 by thewheeliedealer
Hi all,

My mate Peter @Conkers3 and myself did a ‘Twin Petes Investing’ Podcast a few days ago and part of our discussion includes SDL and how we deal with Takeover situations. We also chatted about loads of other Stocks and Ideas for research with a particular slant on potential Takeover Targets, and the outlook for Markets and as usual a fair bit of educational stuff with regards to Investing.

Anyway, if you use Apple, Audioboom, Overcast or Spotify you can find it under the 'Conkers Corner' Channel (you want Podcast TPI 35) and you can find it on Soundcloud at the link below.

I hope you enjoy it and find it useful,

Cheers, WD
@wheeliedealer
Posted at 03/9/2020 12:51 by phillis
wonder which SDL insti holders are not permitted to invest in AIM stocks
Posted at 07/2/2020 10:00 by windsor430
Peel Hunt have upped their target price from 570 to 740 & reiterated it's a Buy.
Posted at 30/1/2020 09:33 by windsor430
Last week we had "profit significantly ahead of expectations" and the share price has hardly moved, next to no volumes, but the offering is still v compelling. New non-Exec in too
Posted at 21/1/2020 18:40 by cravencottage
EI

According to data from ii SDl are forecast 30.56 eps for 2020 and 33.41 eps 2021.

Factor in the cash on the balance sheet and SDL are ripe for takeover imo
Posted at 11/7/2019 21:35 by cravencottage
Some big buys going through today..

Not long to wait now before we see the MM's begin to walk the price up and all of a sudden whoosh = In anticipation of decent numbers early Aug.

All the best

CC
Posted at 27/6/2019 21:37 by cravencottage
Essential Investor..

In answer to your statement - I'm convinced at some stage SDL will be bid for as the barrier to entry in translation software co's is off the richter scale..

Meanwhile they are returning to the arena of being " A growth Co" coupled with an increasing divi ( which always appeals to institutions such as Schroders etc)

Also I note directors' have picked up shares at prices higher than current levels which imo bodes extremely well..

The cherry on the cake being the latest broker note targets 650p..

I think it's fair to say the share price at current levels is considerably off the mark..

No doubt we'll see some turbulence along the way but with results due in early August I think it's fair to say the SP's behind the curve.
Posted at 07/11/2018 13:41 by robow
from tThe Daily Telegraph
Questor: buy translation firm SDL for its high barriers to entry, rising sales and improving margins
Questor share tip: SDL's technology and huge team of translators give it strong protection from competition
A good question to ask if you want to gauge how well a company is defended from competition is: how long would it take to build it from scratch?

If the answer is many years, potential rivals are likely to think that returns would be too long delayed to justify the cost and effort.

This week’s stock would take a long time to replicate. SDL, the translation firm, has been in business for 26 years and during that time it has built up a team of about 1,200 in-house translators and 16,000 freelancers.

“That kind of network takes a very long time to build,” said Stuart Widdowson, manager of the Odyssean investment trust. “That, on top of its proprietary technology, would impose high barriers to entry on any new competitor


In fact SDL has just two rivals of any size, along with a large number of smaller outfits. And in the translation market size confers advantages, Widdowson said.

He said the large multinationals among its clients – which include 88 of the world’s top brands – typically wanted to disseminate the same message in all their markets globally.

“The internet has brought about an explosion of content and companies want it to reach customers in more and more countries. That involves communicating in many different languages simultaneously, but managing that process is difficult as you will be using multiple platforms in multiple countries,” he said.

“A large firm such as SDL will have the resources needed – the process management software, the project managers, the automated translation engine – but smaller rivals won’t; they will be more geared to operating in one or two countries.” SDL has operations in 35.

As a result, its customers tend to stick with it. “It is the market leader and in some niches it has a market share of about 90pc,” the fund manager said.

Despite the business’s inherent strengths, there is scope for improvement. Widdowson said that in the past it had been “undermanaged” – “it was built via multiple acquisitions, which weren’t as integrated as well as you’d have expected”, he said.

There is now a new management team, which is working to improve efficiency. “The company will use better ‘middle-office’ and ‘back-office’ technology. For example, until recently the scheduling of translators’ tasks was managed on a spreadsheet but there is now dedicated software in place,” Widdowson said.

The improvements should lead to higher profit margins. “The company is committed to a rise of 1-2 percentage points in operating margins every year,” he said. “They are now about 10pc but we think they should reach the high teens over time.”

When higher margins are combined with the growth in sales that Widdowson and the company expect, there is scope for double-digit earnings rises every year. As capital requirements are light, profits tend to feed through to cash generation. Odyssean expects the firm to be debt-free at the end of the year.

The investment trust likes to value this kind of stock in relation to its sales and said on this measure the valuation (an “enterprise value” of 1.1 times next year’s expected sales) was “not demanding” given the scope to improve sales and margins.

Questor says: buy

Ticker: SDL

Share price at close: 484p
Posted at 05/8/2018 12:21 by danieldanj
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