Ebiquity Share Discussion Threads

[melfaraj] 17/5/2001 14:32

freddyfinance and all others who followed the progress of ebq:

i did say a short while ago that i will be anouncing the next winning project. well, here it is: 'the innovation company', tig.

the company share has been suspended from trading over the past few weeks as a result of a reverse takeover. the news has just come out that it will resume trading tomorrow, hence my anouncement now.

this is a software company with products aimed at insurance companies. insurance companies are forecast to do well.

this share had a very good performace, even though it dropped like most software companies did. but the drop had not been dramatic.

at this juncture i have no sold information as to its expected future performance, even though good things have been said in general. the share can be volatile, and hence require careful handling. so please do not treat this as a tip. but i will follow up the progress of this share under a thread created, or an existing thread. hope all goes well.

[sazulu] 14/5/2001 09:45

Thanks for that, dcb.

As a favour to all of us who are keen to be briefed on SCSW tips as soon as it comes out without the inconvenience of paying the subscription fee (why bother when others are happy to do this on our behalf??), perhaps you could kindly post the rest of their tips?

Or is it just EBQ from this month's tips that you already hold?

Regards,
sazulu.

[dcb] 14/5/2001 09:01

EBQ tipped as a BUY, with some very positive comments, in today's Small Company Sharewatch(p8). EBQ will 'benefit whoever wins the next generation platform war... recent results have already exceeded best expectations... the group will also benefit from higher margin software sales which shadow the console launches... equally enticing, the valuable customer databases which EBQ has built up (of over 2.5m names) doesn't show up anywhere in the balance sheet, and will come into play, providing ample opportunities for cross-selling. Based on this, broker, Numis, has increased its forecast for the current year from £23m to £27m (5.3p). The forecast for next year has rocketed to £34m (6.6p). BUY'

[dcb] 14/5/2001 08:49

EBQ tipped as a BUY, with some very positive comments, in today's Small Company Sharewatch(p8). EBQ will 'benefit whoever wins the next generation platform war... recent results have already exceeded best expectations... the group will also benefit from higher margin software sales which shadow the console launches... equally enticing, the valuable customer databases which EBQ has built up (of over 2.5m names) doesn't show up anywhere in the balance sheet, and will come into play, providing ample opportunities for cross-selling. Based on this, broker, Numis, has increased its forecast for the current year from £23m to £27m (5.3p). The forecast for next year has rocketed to £34m (6.6p). BUY'

[melfaraj] 08/5/2001 22:06

this baby is doing absolutely fine!
the price is rising daily coupled to big trades from the big boys.
a sure sign of the strength of this stock is how it will break the £1 barrier, as this barrier may show itself to be as stubborn as the £.70. my own impression is that it will break the £1.00 barrier with a greater ease than it broke the £.70. but break it would.and with figures like those declared recently, £1.50 should be within reach.

[superpete] 29/4/2001 21:52

EBQ are doing us proud with plenty of momentum with yet another good write up by Midas in Financial Mail on Sunday who originally tipped them at around 45.5p.Earlier in the week Tempus,Robert Cole in The Times suggested to continue buying as they had further to go.imho could possibly test 90p next week.Good luck to all.

Edit:apologies for duplication-did not see post above.

[melfaraj] 29/4/2001 21:44

Market Miscellany – The Sunday Telegraph

Retailing computer-based games is turning out to be a cyclical industry, as Electronics Boutique (EBQ - news) is discovering. The shares slipped to 25.5p last year as sales for the PlayStation tailed off. EB is now recovering strongly after the launch of PS2. If the events of the past year prove anything it is that EBQ's fortunes depend on new games hardware. There is a huge pipeline of software for the PS2, while the GameBoy Advance is launched in June, the Microsoft X-box and Nintendo Game Cube arrive in spring 2002 and there is still no real competition to EB on the high street. Industry insiders also say its sales are well ahead of forecasts. Keep buying.


Midas – The Mail on Sunday

Upbeat figures and forecasts from computer games retailer Electronic Boutique (EBQ - news) have continued to help the company’s share price. The shares had traded between 60p and 70p for most of this year, but good results last week helped them close at 85p for an 87% rise. New formats are the lifeblood of the industry and this summer will see the launch of the Game Boy Advance handheld console, while spring next year will bring Microsoft’s (MSFT) XBox and the Nintendo Game Cube. Shares continue to look good value. “Hold.”

[melfaraj] 28/4/2001 20:56

freddyfinance,

well done and thank you for your interest. will keep you posted on this thread when the time is right, i.e. when i have real and positive pointers gathered through research collected from respectable resources, not through personal wishfull thinking. i will also follow the progress of the share on a dedicated thread step by step, in the manner i did with ebq. cheers.

[freddy finance] 27/4/2001 21:10

melfaraj,

I look forward to your recommendation. (Bought back into EBQ when the price crept above 70p, waiting for 100p).

Regards
Freddy

[jsung1] 27/4/2001 21:03

I sold #40k when it was 75p becasue the results seems to be under expectation, I couldn't be sure how the market react to the results.. I was thinking to buy Eidos at 208p if ebq results was good.. now they are 280p. I missed the boat again. jo

[melfaraj] 27/4/2001 20:55

it is all going to plan.

and for those who followed this thread, both up and down, i will soon be posting on this thread my next recommendation. again it is a difficult share to trade and a volatile one too, but with rewards to match. good luck to all.

[astrocat] 27/4/2001 15:34

Still going up, now 83p. Have you sold yet jsung1 & if so why? I would have thought EBQ could reach 100p by xmas but it looks like its going to get there early

[jsung1] 27/4/2001 15:20

maybe I should sell afterall... jo

[astrocat] 27/4/2001 10:48

During the dark days of EBQ (I have held them for nearly 3yrs) I would have settled for breaking even. In my view any profit, & I am in profit now because I topped up at 30p, 40p & 50p, is a bonus. So melfaraj, I have the courage to keep holding & am looking for 100p+

[melfaraj] 26/4/2001 22:19

ebq has been tipped in today's times newspaper as follows:

'electronic boutique yesterday produced a set of results to put the rest of the high street to shame. given the upbeat performances recorded in at least some parts of the retail sector recently, this is quite an achievemnent. eb's like for like sales have surged 18 per cent since the begining of the year. and by 31 percent over the past five weeks. this comes on top of an 18 per cent rise in like for like sales for the whole of 2000, when underlying pre-tax profit rose 72 per cent to £12.9 million. it almost makes up for the pain the computer games retailer inflicted on its shareholders in 1999 when it found itself at the hear of a cut-thprice war. share have yet to recover all lost ground, however. last year eb rode high on the back of the gameboy and playstation 1 software titles. this year it should benefit from the release of more than 100 software titles for playstation 2-now widely available in the uk-as well as from the launch of nintendo's game boy advance. next year the momentum should be maintained by the launch of microsoft's first games console, x-box...........the current share price run looks to set to continue for a while yet. buy!

up today 1.25 p or 1.6%.

astrocat, well done and keep on, but be alert at all times, this share is not for the faint hearted but the rewards make it all worthwhile. on my monitor of stocks of yeasterday full of red highlighted stocks, it was very heartyening to see ebq up by such high a margin. good luck to all.

[astrocat] 26/4/2001 13:19

Thanks Uncle-Bob, I had not thought of Shorters in that way. Lets hope they have to buy back loads of shares & thus benifit us real investors. I have been in EBQ for 3 years now, steadily buying on the drops & dips so I am now well back in profit & looking for more in the next 12 months. Who knows, perhaps with improving market conditions we may get back to 110p+ like in the old days!!

[rob gates] 26/4/2001 13:05

If you look at the 5 year chart as recommended on 3iii board then historically the biggest rises are in May

[uncle-bob] 26/4/2001 10:11

Do not begrudge shorters. They have to buy back now, at great loss, which further lifts the share price.

Rob

[astrocat] 26/4/2001 09:31

Hi melfaraj, we have both held the faith with EBQ & are now being rewarded. We are now up to 80p this morning. I hope the shorters all got badly burned as a just reward for thier destructive attitude. I will be holding this one for a while longer yet, the full potential of PS2 + XBox has yet to be felt & 100p+ should be on the cards. If the big boys agree, then they may buy into this potential early before the herd. In which case EBQ could rise quickly again.

[melfaraj] 25/4/2001 22:42

as expected by all informed sources, ebq took off today 12.3% to 77.5 p.

congratulations to those who maintained the course. commiserations to shorters. a recent posting on the premium board has been entitled 'ebq classic short', and these guys are supposed to be the better informed and knowledged! or are they.

expect the share to march on, albeit at a less hectic rates than today's rate, and may well take a dip before rising again up to a major resistance level of £1.00. if then is the price to break through the £1.00 level it would take off again in a big way up to anything in the region of £1.50 within few months.

[toorie] 23/4/2001 23:02

EBQ results Wednesday !!!!

[jsung1] 23/4/2001 22:04

we should see a big rise tomorrow morning.. a lotof the money will be shifted from tech stocks to EBQ. ALY up 18% today on the hope of good results tomorrow. So we should see similar in EBQ tomorrow. Jo

[melfaraj] 23/4/2001 14:22

just look at the shear volumes today and the ratio of buys to sells. it is looking very good and would be geting better by the day until well past the date of relaease of the results.

[t0474] 23/4/2001 08:33

Morning all this was in Sharecast today

Game on for Electronics Boutique

By Laura Cummings
Mon 23 Apr 2001


LONDON (SHARECAST) - Computer game retailer Electronics Boutique is expected to post solid figures this week. Analysts say the UK’s only pure games retailer has allayed fears of a threat from the Internet and looks poised to reap the benefits of a growing market. Elect.boutique

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Elect.boutique 71 +2

General Retailers 0%
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EB, which acquired rival Game in 1999, now controls 30% of the market with its closest rival Dixons holding only 16% and Gameplay having moved off the high street. One analyst even suggested that EB could consider bidding for Gameplay, which has seen its market value slump from £300m to £18m in the last year.

Both Beeson Gregory and Credit Lyonnais anticipate pre-tax profits of around £12.4m-£12.5m for EB and have buy recommendations on the stock up to 100p a share. Isabelle Payet at Credit Lyonnais said she has earmarked the company as “one of the strong performers for the year – I’m pretty sure it’s going to do very well”.

EB is set to benefit from the increased availability of PlayStation 2 games and the launch of new consoles including Nintendo’s Game Cube in September. Positive trading results released in January also demonstrated that last year’s price war with Dixons and other retailers, which took its toll on profits, was now over and that EB now sells accessories – a key profit driver.

The threat of people downloading more and more games from the Internet has also receded. Payet said: “It has not happened as some people feared.” She said this is now only a long-term possibility: “It won’t happen for years.”

EB is also diversifying into other channels, as last month’s acquisition of online gaming service BarrysWorld demonstrated. The group says it is ideally positioned to promote the service through its 300 stores and existing websites.