Ant Plc Share Discussion Threads

[paleje] 11/3/2011 07:13

This morning's RNS shows some director confidence that the current share price is attractive:-

ANT plc (AIM: ANTP), announces that on 10 March 2011 Pauline Ingram, Group Finance Director, was granted 200,000 options over ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company ("Options") pursuant to the ANT plc Share Option Scheme. The Options are exercisable at 26.5 pence per share, being the closing mid-market price per ordinary share on 10 March 2011 and the vesting of the Options is subject to certain performance criteria. The Options may be exercised after three years and shall expire after ten years from the date of grant. Following this grant of options, Miss Ingram's total number of options is 300,000.

[l.parker] 01/3/2011 11:38

2007 Dec(approx) .83 Share Valuations
2008 Jan " .18 "
2009 Jun " .52 "
2010 Jan " .30 "
2011 Mar " .27 "
Do what I did,get out.

[exotic] 01/3/2011 09:34

Luckily for investors, Directors are not obliged to buy shares.

Rather than be annoyed at ANT Directors for not buying shares, perhaps you should take it for the uniquely honest and most valuable investor signal that it is.

I cannot find any record of any ANT Directors ever buying shares, so I assume they received them on flotation.


Simon Woodward, CEO, owns 157,835 shares, valued at £45k.

William Tudor Brown, non-exec Director, owns 28,000 shares valued at £8,208. Earns well in excess of £200,000 a year ()

Pauline Ingram, Finance Director, owns 22,000 shares, valued at £6,270

David Fell, Chief Technical Officer - £ ZERO
John Gooch, Engineering Director - £ ZERO
Matthew Lobo, Commercial Operations Director - £ ZERO
Sean Kim, VP and General Manager for Asia and Russian Markets - £ ZERO

While shareholders can only read the reports and then form a guess on what the company is doing and where it's going. The Finance Director READS AND WRITES the books. If they never thought it wise to buy shares in ANT, then why should you?

[cocker] 01/3/2011 07:39

No excuse for the directors not to buy @ these levels & show us investors that they firmly belive in the future.

[paleje] 28/2/2011 07:37

No numbers given. I googled Sunplus, Taiwanese, their website seems to indicate their sales are in decline.

So since ANT told us in their last update that some contract completions had been delayed, this is the first we've heard from them. No doubt there'll be more enlightenment with their results, due this month.?? Poor communicators as I've said before.

[cocker] 28/2/2011 07:17

Sunplus selects ANT Galio platform today.

[cocker] 26/2/2011 12:42

Results were on the 1st of March last year so perhaps next week we may see more of a picture on current activity if results are released.

[l.parker] 11/2/2011 15:44

LG makes all TV,s Internet connected. The Smart TV upgrader is a small box
connects to your TV via HDMI & your network.It runs LG.s internet portal
software,which provides access to online content & will be implemented on
all new LG televisions.

[go_baby_go] 11/2/2011 09:01

Looks like this is finally going to take off, about time too.

[paleje] 10/2/2011 18:39

Good to see some activity here, I hope the Board don't let us down next month, we already know revenue will be down and that's ok, costs controlled cash better than expected, all we need then is a nice little statement confirming the contracts that have been carried over and some positive outlook for the future in what seems likely to be a competitive but exciting market.

[chrisdgb] 10/2/2011 15:41

spread widened...mm's short on stock, could get squeezy..

[cocker] 10/2/2011 14:26

A write up in the mail today about yesterdays rns & states that broker's target price is 60p.Guess thats why we are seeing an upward momentum today.

[paleje] 09/2/2011 17:55

I think set top boxes will be around for a long time yet, I can't imagine families ditching perfectly good recent tv's before they've got their use out of them so STBs are with us for a while, and with the different options becoming available, who'd want to restrict themselves to what their set contains or their supplier deems adequate for them?

[l.parker] 09/2/2011 17:01

Speculative, that just about sums up Ant. We have heard this all before,
many times over the years,and it all falls on stony ground. Why anyone would
buy Humax boxes, all their contents will be available in the latest TV sets
coming on the markets now, these humax sets will be obsolete.

[chrisdgb] 09/2/2011 15:43

hb markets:

ANT (LON:ANTP, 27.25p, £6.62m) Humax, one of the world's largest manufacturers of set-top boxes, has launched its new TV portal using the ANT Galio platform. The update is now running on its HDR-Fox T2 Freeview and HD set top boxes having been delivered by the over the air update system. We continue to rate the group a SPECULATIVE BUY.

[chrisdgb] 09/2/2011 14:53

would be nice to break through the 30p level..

[chrisdgb] 09/2/2011 10:54

Yes a top up seems a good idea..!

[paleje] 09/2/2011 09:12

Welcome publicity but I think this stuff was already in the bag, it will be nice (essential) to hear about new business for the year ahead and beyond, hopefully in just a few weeks.

[chrisdgb] 09/2/2011 08:10

Nice looking announcement, reminds people of the excellent prospects here, which with the cash are virtually in for free:

Humax TV Portal Launches with ANT Galio Platform



09 February, 2011, Cambridge: ANT (LSE AIM: ANTP), a leading provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, today announced that Humax, one of the world's largest set-top box manufacturers has launched its new TV Portal using the ANT Galio Platform. An automatic over-the-air update ran from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th February to all Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview+ HD set-top boxes in the UK. This update included the addition of the ANT Galio Platform to facilitate the new TV Portal, which enables viewers to enjoy a wealth of new digital content at the touch of button.



The Humax TV Portal launched with a range of on-demand and internet services including Flickr, BBC iPlayer, Wiki@TV and internet radio. It will continue to grow with the addition of Sky Player in a matter of weeks, also provided by ANT and built using the ANT Galio Platform. Once the Humax box is connected to a broadband connection, consumers will be able to access on-demand content, seamlessly integrated with traditional broadcast content, through the easy to use interface. The TV Portal will also be made available on Humax HD-FOX T2 set-top boxes.

[paleje] 08/2/2011 13:54

Amino is a listed partner of ANT so lets hope some of our software is involved in their expansion:)

[chrisdgb] 08/2/2011 10:25

I notice Amino yesterday:

Cambridge-based Amino Technologies (AMO), specialist in IPTV (internet protocol television) has unveiled a strong set of annual results.

Once again highlights the great sector, let us hope ANT can give us some decent contracts..

[paleje] 02/2/2011 10:47

ANT deal with Germany's CreNova:-

The UK-based ANT Galio platform has been chosen by the Germany-based set top box manufacturer CreNova Technology to make its latest range of set top boxes, which have been designed to bring the equipment up to European standards.
The latest version of set top box technology will involve the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV standard, which is also known as the much easier to remember HbbTV Standard.
CreNova intends to supply these latest and much more flexible machines throughout the European market place.
The equipment will be able to offer the consumer access to catch-up TV services, video on demand and more interactive services such as longer adverts and marketing programmes.
HbbTV is a sort of open source for this technology and should allow many more businesses to get involved in the development of the next great idea.

[chrisdgb] 27/1/2011 09:03

Yes nice spot will be good to get the expected newsflow so that the doubters become converted, such a cheap stock with all the cash...