Amstrad Share Discussion Threads

[studhaves] 29/6/2007 09:28

Shame its not being sought by the CEO.

[weatherman] 28/6/2007 21:33

AMT should be held up by the dividend that is currently about 5.7%

Sugar doesn't seem too bothered about keeping investors informed, but he is bothered about his dividend flow.

[brando69] 28/6/2007 21:30

are you wanting to invest for 10 years? if so 5 year chart is fine. otherwise, not relevant.

118p bottom over last 12 months looks like a more relevant detail to me. as i've been saying for some time, watch to see if it bounces at 118 and puts on a sustained climb. if it does, cld well be worth it. on fundamentals it's sound. just news, sentiment and clear signals on future direction of company that we are short of.

[source] 28/6/2007 21:12

Its been tipped so this could be a temporary blip up.

The price looks precarious when looking at a 5 year chart...Any chartists out there? 80p looks like it could occur if there is a bit of bad stbnews?

Regards

[guru11] 28/6/2007 09:03

kallista - thanks for that -
are we on the way back up - permanently or is this just a blip upwards that is going to turn?

[kallista] 27/6/2007 09:15

guru

all the buys seem to be going thru plusmarkets

[guru11] 27/6/2007 09:07

Looked encouraging first thing but again selling is yet coming in.
Maybe too dangerous to buy now.

[guru11] 26/6/2007 19:19

brunumal - You need to read advfn.com rules about spamming.

[iwillbe] 26/6/2007 19:01

I wonder how significant the narrowing of the spread is on this stock. Any views on this would be appreciated.

[mali7] 26/6/2007 16:19

Looks like some support buying now, maybe it can finish positive after a long-time

[darrin1471] 26/6/2007 15:33

Disapointing delay until 2008.

Ofcom has announced a consultation into plans by BSkyB to launch a pay-TV service on the UK DTT platform. The service would replace the three existing channels that broadcast under the Freeview banner. They are: Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Three. Sky Text is also available.
The proposals have been made jointly by BSkyB and National Grid Wireless, the company that operates the DTT multiplex used by Sky.In a statement BSkyB reiterated its commitment to using the MPEG-4 compression standard and said that its boxes would be MPEG-2/4 compatible.
Ofcom's plan is to issue a consultation document in the autumn, a process that normally lasts for a period of ten weeks, leading to an announcement early next year. BSkyB expressed disappointment that the process would not be completed sooner. "While is it regrettable that Ofcom feels unable to begin its consultation before the autumn, we'll continue to engage fully with the review and work towards launching the service as soon as possible."
Such a timetable would give a head start to Setanta in its delivery of Premiership football to DTT homes. It is expected that a Sky Sports channel would form part of the Sky pay offering.
Ofcom will be looking to ensure fair and effective competition for the benefit of consumers. In the meantime it has told NGW to ensure that Sky's existing channels remain on the air.

[guru11] 26/6/2007 15:11

On AMT Britishbulls is 26:16 on getting it right, which is poor record for them. The last signal was on the 19 June - sell at 132p and that was right.

Are we saying that they have come out with a confirmed buy for AMT today?
Why I ask is because I don't subscribe so I can only see it in the evening.

It has come down from 180 to 118p so if there was a profits warning or bad news then I could understand it falling farther, but as there has been no such news could we now be at the bottom?.

Time will tell.

[darrin1471] 26/6/2007 12:46

8 of the last 11 buy signals on Britishbulls have been wrong.

Total volume has only been 500k in the last 5 days, so unless it's Sky or Amt employees are selling then it is unlikely to be any significant bad news out there apart from Amt missing the HD-DVR delivery target.

Amt are at the lows of Sept 05 and could fall a little further this time as some of the cash pile has been paid out as a special dividend.

Alba has suffered a similar fall over the last 5 days.

[guru11] 26/6/2007 12:37

The probabable good news is the drop is slowing 116.5 / 118p now,
but that is not to say it is not going to drop a little more.
Any good news could put on 10p, but one has to ask where is that likely to come from?

[kiwihope] 26/6/2007 12:31

Just bought in on a 6-12 month view. Once they start shipping HD boxes this should improve IMO. Always a risk of further weakness before then, especially if further delays announced but on balance a good entry level ...

[brando69] 25/6/2007 22:48

guru, indeed - in a situation like this the bearish prognosis can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy. which is why i won't be buying in for a while. if i do it will be within my isa, and i haven't got free funds for this years allocation yet, and am happy with where i have last years...

keeping a close eye though

[guru11] 25/6/2007 22:31

brando69 - we live and learn with our timing of buying and selling - sometimes the hard way - by loosing money. Friday and today has seen a bad sell / buy ratio. One has to ask why should this suddenly go up? But one has to watch this one as it is not a question of if it goes up just a question of when, but shares can bum along poorly for weeks or just shot up in days.

It is a cross between timing and impatience.
It could be falling like a snowball the more it goes down hill the bigger it gets. Take the sells, the more punters sells, the more stoplosses it hits, so the more other people sell as it goes lower still.

Britishbull though did say confirm sell a few days ago.

[dasein] 25/6/2007 17:33

....and I ISA'ed some at 1.38 thinking I was very clever :-))...all credit to brando.. called this one spot on..next time I'll wait for the announcement methinks..

[brando69] 25/6/2007 17:30

sure you'll see it again, but ever since i bought into marconi thinking it was cheap, only to lose a grand, i have been wary of bucking the trend. wld rather wait to see strong signs of an upturn

[jtcod] 25/6/2007 17:11

I thought I may have caught the bottom at 136p brando. What brilliant timing.;-)

[weatherman] 25/6/2007 17:02

Simon is working with amsprop - little to do with amt.

[brando69] 25/6/2007 16:51

we need an rns with some substantive news... and it has to be more than the fact that simple simon has designed a new office block shaped like a banana in his lunchbreak