Arcontech Share Discussion Threads

[sjcsystems] 21/12/2009 15:58

And we go down today why exactly ?

The value of two recent contract wins diminishes before any work has been done? Seems like the market makers for Arcontech need to start justifying their actions.

[steelwatch] 14/12/2009 07:07

14/12/09

New Contract


Arcontech Group plc (AIM: ARC), a provider of enterprise real-time software
solutions to the investment banking and broking sectors, is pleased to announce
a new contract win by its Arcontech Ltd subsidiary for its CityVision market
data distribution products. The sale has been made to a leading international
bank.

The new business will generate revenues in excess of GBP1.4m over the next three years.


Andrew Miller, CEO of Arcontech plc commented: "This is further evidence that
our hard work and renewed focus on the marketing of our superior technology is
starting to yield the results we had anticipated. New deals this year, including
the Scandinavian bank announced on November 27th, broadly double our contracted recurring revenues. We continue to enhance our "CityVision" products which are aimed at firms seeking both vendor independence and cost efficiency for their vital high speed global data distribution needs. Notably, this latest deal includes not only core infrastructure but also a significant number of positions
for our Excelerator real-time desktop product, which we believe has tremendous
growth potential as banks strive to reduce costs whilst increasing performance
and flexibility."

[steelwatch] 27/11/2009 08:34

RNS Number : 1782D
Arcontech Group PLC
27 November 2009

New Contract

Arcontech Group plc (AIM: ARC), a provider of enterprise real-time software
solutions to the investment banking and broking sectors, is pleased to announce
a new contract win by its Arcontech Ltd subsidiary for its CityVision market
data distribution products. The new customer is a Scandinavian bank.


Andrew Miller, CEO of Arcontech plc commented: "It is gratifying to see that our
hard work and group refocus is starting to yield the anticipated results. The
enquiry level for our products remains high."

[sjcsystems] 20/11/2009 11:51

Just because a company has a low market cap doesn't reduce the workload and often increases it. I'm not saying that Arcontech are paying too much or too little, but there isn't a direct relationship between market cap and pay.

[dnfa1975] 19/11/2009 18:10

Pay Squeeze For AIM Directors
Article Date: Nov 19 2009

Many AIM CEOs have cut their pay
The average pay of chief executive officers (CEOs) and finance directors (FDs) of AIM-quoted companies has fallen since last year.

In a tough year for growth companies, mean CEO remuneration including bonuses was £231,967, a fall of 13.5 per cent on 2008, while the average AIM FD was paid £153,140, a drop of 4 per cent, according to research from GrowthBusiness's sister title Growth Company Investor, in association with professional services firm Deloitte.

Those CEOs earning more than £1 million fell from 2.7 per cent of the market to just 0.6 per cent, while those with total compensation of more than £500,000 dropped from 9.6 to 6.9 per cent of all AIM companies, the research suggests.

In contrast, median pay rose for both CEOs and FDs, suggesting that while those at the top of the heap may have suffered, many executives secured modest pay hikes. Median CEO pay increased from £175,000 last year to £190,000, a rise of 8.6 per cent, meaning that chief executives on AIM are now earning 53 per cent more than they were when the research began in 2003.

Some of the smallest companies on the market, with a capitalisation of less than £5 million, are paying their CEOs relatively highly. The top tenth of such companies pay a median of £209,800, compared to median pay of £186,143 for all AIM-listed businesses valued at between £10 million and £20 million.

Small companies with highly paid CEOs include medical product distributor Healthcare Enterprise, which lost £13.3 million last year on sales of £800,000 yet paid its chief executive £497,000.


Whats the sit here I wonder? Thumbing last annual report i noticed that the FD at ARC seems to be getting a wadge

[steelwatch] 06/11/2009 15:49

sj - the spread on Plus is misleading. Also depends on time of trade when comparing. Flaming nuisance as I am sure may will agree!

[sjcsystems] 06/11/2009 14:51

Yes and now I find that on PLUS it is down and on AIM it is up...so which one of these is giving the authoritative share price and therefore company valuation?

[steelwatch] 06/11/2009 10:55

EU competition rules - you will find all AIM shares traded on both markets.

[sjcsystems] 06/11/2009 10:43

I must admit I was unaware that ARC were traded on PLUS. I thought that being AIM-listed meant that the correct identifier to use was LSE:ARC.

[steelwatch] 05/11/2009 16:01

sjc - add PLUS:ARC.GB to your monitor

[knowing] 05/11/2009 15:18

Trades are on PLUS

[sjcsystems] 05/11/2009 15:10

How? Is there something wrong with ADVFN regarding their reporting of trades ?

How can the price drop without any news or trades being done ?

Has something been announced which affects Arcontech? (The story of Bloomberg's attempt to make their market coding a standard is actually positive news)

[sjcsystems] 30/10/2009 17:22

And so another 200m odd shares are added to Arcontech. It would be nice to have some positive news from this outfit

[sjcsystems] 23/10/2009 10:19

Obviously some investors have got cold feet or need their money for something else...but the market makers re-pricing downwards this morning with no trades declared on ADVFN is a bit dubious. Considering that all the news recently was positive, it does make you wonder why some people invest in companies like Arcontech...

[1howie] 22/10/2009 10:11

so what has happened here?

[howdlep] 08/10/2009 15:38

It would have been nice to have been able to buy at the placing price of 0.2p, but I am happy to make 2 very small 350k buys @ 0.25p. We will see whether the turnaround continues over the next 12 months

[steelwatch] 06/10/2009 07:42

Product LaunchLondon, 6th October 2009.

Arcontech, the real-time market data technology specialist has today unveiled the next generation of its CityVision Calculation Engine (CCE), adding the full functionality of its benchmark multiple vendor contribution system, MVCS. The new product is aimed at sell-side firms with sophisticated requirements for price publishing.

The CCE supports simple GUI based configuration which enables firms to associate source data with complex calculations that execute in real-time and to have the results published to multiple destinations.

CCE allows calculations to be based on multiple instruments from multiple sources. This enables users to perform calculations such as basket prices, indices and standard deviation or to base the price of one instrument on values from other markets - for example calculating an overnight CFD price for FTSE based on the Dow and Nikkei.


Andrew Miller, CEO of Arcontech commented: 'This new development is a clever combination of our existing calculation engine with our Multiple Vendor contribution system (MVCS). Merging the two well proven products gives functionality, inherent reliability, fault tolerance and performance that is unmatched by competitors - ideal for 24*7 operations.'

The new product responds to increased client demand for more complex price sanity checking, intelligent spike removal and non-trivial derived values. Not only does it enable fields to be added and changed within the source records but also it lets users create complete new record sets from the same source data. This allows, for example, multiple outputs of true real-time streaming price data, with different market spreads and tolerances for different destinations.

Miller added: 'The CCE is a full blown calculation engine, allowing tens or hundreds of thousands of calculations per second. Results are derived from a variety of user defined external parameters whose values change in real-time - and even the source parameters may be changed dynamically. The new design means that CCE is a simple drop-in replacement for the existing contribution server and adds real value for more sophisticated users. The calculation capability can be brought on line incrementally and flexibly according to business requirements.

CCE is available now and has already been delivered to existing CityVision sites.

[53tom] 21/9/2009 19:51

The results are encouraging provided the trend continues from a first half-year loss of £450,000 to a second half-year loss of £80,000 and onto a profit during the first six months of this financial year.
Pity about doubling the number of shares - but then i suppose half of diddly squat is still diddly squat - so no real effect there.
If some profit can be made perhaps some useful value will be attributed to even these shares.
Here's hoping.

[steelwatch] 21/9/2009 08:15

Results and placing.

[bluenose851] 11/9/2009 08:18

this was called kts before!!! KTS had market terminal that was not great and they have now sold it for about 50K, as it was a conitinual drain on cash. Arcontech effectively reversed into kts and looks OK. The issue of shares was a deferred payment and so had to be issued

[steelwatch] 23/8/2009 23:39

Ohs - they seem to be clients:

[sjcsystems] 29/7/2009 13:21

Isn't it slightly disappointing that Arcontech continue to issue large tracts of new shares ? Couldn't this latest tranche have come from a previous issue, as existing shareholders see their investments diluted even further. Recent price volatility suggests trading out by some people?