Avanti Communications Share Discussion Threads

[sirlurkalot] 02/10/2007 21:32

terry,

Do you have a link to the FT comment please?

[aa29] 01/10/2007 18:30

Nice spread of significant director buying too today.

[sg31] 01/10/2007 18:25

Good results.I would top up but these are already my biggest holding by some way.Still i might have to do it,its not often you get such a good risk/reward profile.This is not a ramp as i do not intend to sell any at any time soon.

[terryebby] 01/10/2007 14:51

and now the other directors have as well - about £60k invested by my reckoning. good omens .....

[terryebby] 01/10/2007 12:24

the ceo shares your view - he bought £20k this morning.

[terryebby] 01/10/2007 12:21

FT says 400% share price rise is possible. Here we go at last !

[aa29] 01/10/2007 12:15

The results out today have inspired a nice boost to the share price:

Avanti Communications Group plc

• Preliminary results for year ended 30 June 2007

Avanti Communications Group plc (AIM: AVN), the satellite operator, is pleased
to announce its final results for the year ended 30 June 2007.

Key points:

• Maiden results presented on a pro forma basis
• Profit before taxation was £20.2 million.
• Underlying loss before tax of £3.1 million before exceptional gain.
• Cash £9.7 million (September 28th: £42m)
• HYLAS satellite procurement on target and on budget
• Cape Canaveral Falcon 9 launch booked for March 31st 2009 launch.
• Post balance sheet closure of the £32million debt deal in July, meaning
that the HYLAS project is fully funded with stable long term finance and
comfortable headroom to spare
• Pre-sales activity very encouraging with a pipeline of potential sales of
£168m, market demand and pricing moving in our favour
• New satellite spectrum licenses announced


David Williams, Avanti's Chief Executive, commented:

'These results are in line with market expectations and we have achieved all of
the key project milestones for the period. Avanti is Europe's first ever
Entrepreneur-created Fixed Satellite Services operator, and having broken into a
market dominated by multinational or quasi-governmental companies, we now have
the corporate structure, focus and resources required to take advantage of what
increasingly looks like an outstanding and rare market opportunity.'


Full text can be found here



and the presentation slides are here (worth taking a look):

[darlocst] 01/10/2007 09:12

Morning CURRYPASTY

[currypasty] 01/10/2007 08:58

good set of results, great bounce this morning... anyone there ?

[currypasty] 01/10/2007 07:59

RNS Number:7983E
Avanti Communications Group Plc
01 October 2007

Date: 1 October 2007

On behalf of: Avanti Communications Group plc ("Avanti" or "the Company")

Embargoed until: 0700hrs





Avanti Communications Group plc

* Preliminary results for year ended 30 June 2007

Avanti Communications Group plc (AIM: AVN), the satellite operator, is pleased
to announce its final results for the year ended 30 June 2007.

Key points:

* Maiden results presented on a pro forma basis
* Profit before taxation was #20.2 million.
* Underlying loss before tax of #3.1 million before exceptional gain.
* Cash #9.7 million (September 28th: #42m)
* HYLAS satellite procurement on target and on budget
* Cape Canaveral Falcon 9 launch booked for March 31st 2009 launch.
* Post balance sheet closure of the #32million debt deal in July, meaning
that the HYLAS project is fully funded with stable long term finance and
comfortable headroom to spare
* Pre-sales activity very encouraging with a pipeline of potential sales of
#168m, market demand and pricing moving in our favour
* New satellite spectrum licenses announced


David Williams, Avanti's Chief Executive, commented:

"These results are in line with market expectations and we have achieved all of
the key project milestones for the period. Avanti is Europe's first ever
Entrepreneur-created Fixed Satellite Services operator, and having broken into a
market dominated by multinational or quasi-governmental companies, we now have
the corporate structure, focus and resources required to take advantage of what
increasingly looks like an outstanding and rare market opportunity."

[terryebby] 22/9/2007 16:00

i dont know where the flaky things comes from - if you look at the shareholders RObert Tchenguiz, Hermes, Aberdeen Caledonia, Framligton, Avenue are on there - those who know the story from the inside really seem to believe the big vision

[terryebby] 22/9/2007 15:57

I would say a ludicrous price the worry is that one of the multi billion pound competitors use this price to buy up the company on the cheap. I'm having some more anyway.

[mallet3] 21/9/2007 15:48

I believe EDF Man has been the seller in last couple of days, created a bloody good buying price for those with any spare cash.

[terryebby] 21/9/2007 11:06

they need to announce some big pre-sales contracts, like they say in slides on the website:
see Page 10

[sirlurkalot] 21/9/2007 08:05

SP off more this morning. Very puzzling.

[sg31] 20/9/2007 19:38

Woozle1,There is in my house,its that thing covered with carpet.:-)
I do not know what is going on here.No news,No volume,10% fall,does not make sense unless someone knows something we do not.I will give it a few days to see if there is any reason for this,if not i will top up.
This is a long term play,This is my largest holding,i can not see that it can go much lower.Even if the sat' blows up on launch(god forbid) the insurance will pay out £1.60 per share.

[woozle1] 20/9/2007 16:52

Is there a floor?!

[sirlurkalot] 20/9/2007 16:21

terry,

Because they have minds of their own?

I guess the people selling now don't like the situation because it's all so long term - it won't be until mid-2009 until there's some real action, though maybe the results coming up will be a chance to get the message around a bit more.

[anusol] 20/9/2007 16:10

i got out today - been jolding for 6 months since pre demerger, but have made the money back on recent ASG volatility. Will come back to AVN in the new year.

[terryebby] 20/9/2007 14:51

Thr housebroker price target is over three quid so why aren't their clients buying??

[anusol] 20/9/2007 14:44

small trading volume though, but AVN is such a long term play, could well keep sliding until the next year and we get closer to some real action.

[anusol] 20/9/2007 14:42

what the hell's going on here? some news leaked out?

[sirlurkalot] 20/9/2007 10:19

I've updated the header with the front page of the ABN June note, which I've just received.