Cohort Share Discussion Threads

[walker10] 04/2/2009 00:41

This could be good for business where the USA goes the UK follows:

"Dedicated electronic warfare specialties will be established for commissioned officers, warrant officers and enlisted soldiers as part of an ongoing effort to make EW a core competency for the active and reserve components.

Under plans now being developed, an electronic warfare structure will be established throughout the force, from service component commands down to battalion level, according to a worldwide directive recently issued by the Army".



Mass offers:

Based upon our unique and extensive expertise in EW, MASS can offer specialist EW training courses specifically targeted on the following areas:

Tactics and Countermeasures Development
EW Operational Support (EWOS)


Our Tactics and Countermeasures Development training is designed to give the student the necessary knowledge and skills to develop effective counters to threat weapon systems.

[walker10] 28/1/2009 08:29

HMS Daring, the first of six Type 45 Anti Air Warfare Destroyers in production for the Royal Navy, has been hailed by its creators as the most powerful and advanced vessel of its kind.



Nice to see that Cohort had an input:



Also nice to see a company actually recruiting and not laying people off that must say something in these times :

[walker10] 12/1/2009 09:28

A very small purchase of shares by Sir Robert, I didnt know he also sits on the board of the giant General Dynamics Corporation, interesting :-

[walker10] 08/1/2009 15:51

I just wonder if CHRT will benefit from securing the Olympics :-

After all they have contacts in very high places:-

However, the new figures showed that since that announcement nine months ago the cost of policing London and securing Britain against terrorism during the month-long period of the Olympics had soared to £838 million - a rise of £238 million.

That figure does not include the £354 million set aside to protect the Olympic Park during the construction phase.

Miss Jowell added: "As the security plan becomes clear the extent of the call on contingency will also become clear. But at this stage we have a budget which is robust and realistic."

Government officials refused to disclose what had caused the security bill to jump by so much, but insisted that the extra £238 million, allocated from a £2.7 billion contingency fund, had not caused the overall £9.3 billion budget to rise.

[walker10] 06/1/2009 11:25

Forcasts from DL:

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
30-Apr-09 75.19 7.56 14.59p 8.8 3.6 +2% 1.70p 1.4%
30-Apr-10 79.86 8.39 15.85p 8.1 0.9 +9% 1.85p 1.6%
30-Apr-11 84.00 9.20 17.10p 7.5 1.0 +8% n/a 0.0%

No debt or very little.

[walker10] 06/1/2009 10:50

A buy rec by Investec dated the 11.Dec.2008 :

190.00 target.

Investec (LSE: INVP.L - news) maintains a sell on JJB Sports, upgrades Logica (LSE: LOG.L - news) to a hold from a sell with a 65p target, has a hold and a 650p target for Bunzl, a buy and a 190p target for Cohort (LSE: CHRT.L - news) , a buy and a 476p target for Consort Medical (LSE: BPK.L - news) and a hold and 115p target for HMV.

[walker10] 05/1/2009 12:36

Oldish artical but gives you an idea:-

"Walther says: "The MoD has a budget of £35bn per year. A third of that goes on wages. Up to £7bn goes on procuring ships, tanks and planes. Billions are spent on operational costs. There is probably a budget of £500m a year for research and development."

He described the MoD as a "whopping big cheese" and Cohort is a "small mouse nibbling away but trying to grow our share each year". The nibbling is working as it is expected to generate £57m of sales for the year to April 2008.

The board owns 36 per cent of the group and employees own a further 12 per cent, giving them a veto on anything other than an agreed approach by third parties. Until that comes it is likely to be a business that continues to grow by providing more and more outsourced services to a shrinking government department".

[stevie0505] 10/4/2008 16:47

Decent move..... little volume. Any thoughts ? (Im new to this one !)

[horneblower] 18/1/2008 11:33

Are you still there, James?

[quickmind] 22/9/2006 15:20

Don't know anything about what business Cohort do. Had a quick look at the RNS news regarding Acquisition of MASS. I could not find any evidence that MASS is a growth company -- in the year to 31 March 2006 it made £300k on turnover £11 mil (2005: £500k on £11.2 mil). Margins also seems quite low. Yet CHRT paid a good price for MASS.

What really puts off is the statement: "The Directors of Cohort anticipate that the acquisition will be earnings enhancing (before goodwill amortisation) in the first full year of ownership. This statement should not be interpreted to mean that the Company's future earnings per share following the acquisition will necessarily be greater than or equal to the Company's historical earnings per share."

Us investors expect such acquisition enhances earning PER SHARE, don't we?

[johnrxx99] 24/8/2006 15:21

One suspects 136/7p has created a strong base. Need +141p though.

[johnrxx99] 13/7/2006 12:39

Mentioned in Sh@res Mag today. Loads of new contracts and other juicy bits.

[johnrxx99] 28/5/2006 12:17

I heard about this the other day and set this thread up to monitor the price etc. Hope it may be of us to others with more knowledge of the business.

[johnrxx99] 28/5/2006 12:16

A relatively new company to AIM, set up by Nick Prest to supply highly skilled technical services to the defence sector. The Groups clients include UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), other UK government departments, NATO, major defence contractors and non-defence businesses.


Cohort plc's sole initial trading subsidiary Systems Consultants Services Limited ("SCS" or the "Company") is a leading independent defence technical services business. The Company was established to satisfy demand for individuals with professional theoretical knowledge coupled with practical experience in its application to advise the defence and security sectors. SCS services include: training support, military equipment trials, network-enabled warfare, applied research and analytical studies and support to equipment projects.

[hew] 28/3/2006 15:31

mrgaribaldi............ hit these posts by accident, but as an engineer I much enjoyed your above piece on the subject! Thank you.

[yangou] 16/11/2004 00:39

Well I am glad that i found this thread. It was just what I was wondering too. But I am afraid the chart which is more detailed in my own software .Somehow the near breakout just does not look quite the same on these for Alliance Trust. Though you can still draw your own lines on it and see if you come to the same conclusion.

[fross] 15/11/2004 16:30

hi guys,

i'm doing some work in this area so that you can include pictures from your streaming charts in BB posts easily. there's a (FBB, moderated) thread about it you can check out to see where it's going now and comment if you have any ideas:



DavidW

[fross] 12/8/2004 16:41

spyderman,

see problems thread, quotes charts for LSE are unreliable right now, we're fixing that right now. monitor microscope and streaming charts are definitely accurate.

DavidW

[spyderman] 10/8/2004 20:14

advfn

after changes you made to the site yesterday i note volumes on the quote pages are much smaller than on the monitor; however monitor vols correctly = buys+sells+unknowns

eg vod monitor 171,520,028; buys 53,846,073; sells 112,525,453; unknowns 5,148,502

but on quotes pages total vol is 113,764,292

LSE site also has 113,764,292

why have your volumes suddenly soared?

regards

spyderman

[hooya] 10/8/2004 12:51

total down time this week is now 22.5%..clock stopped!

[hooya] 10/8/2004 09:39

charts up and running so so far total down time this week for me is 13%

[hooya] 10/8/2004 09:02

I update the header when we have downtime on the streaming charts to keep a record. Thought I miight as well bring it to the top. Let me know if there was any downtime yesterday. I want on line in the evening that much so only put in 30mins

[sofa surfer] 05/6/2004 10:15

have u got the the proper java script running? e.g. advfn works best on the microsoft version, not the un version. ring advfn for technical support, I'm sure they'll be able to help.

good luck

SS